Editorials and the Web.(SHOP TALK: Broadcast News)
When broadcast stations first started marrying their content to the
Web, the intention was clearly to drive readers to their television
sets. While in many cases the content surpassed that of . . .
Lineups ready for 2005 elections.(CONVENTION 2005)
Candidates for secretary
David Holwerk
David Holwerk has been editorial page editor of The Sacramento Bee
since September 2001. In that position, he has charge of the Bee's
editorial and . . .
All work and no fun in Portland ... really.(CONVENTION
2005)
Newspaper bosses want to get their money's worth If employees
ask to be unshackled for a journalism conference, bosses want that time
away from the office to be productive.
Not fun. Definitely . . .
From an ivory tower to a sandstone mesa.(Covering Indian
country)
Take nineteen print and broadcast reporters. Add one editorial page
editor for balance, taste, and class.
Or, in my case, because they had a last-minute opening.
Fly the whole lot to . . .
A plug for an NCEW treasure.(Minority Writers Seminar)(National
Conference of Editorial Writers )
It almost has become a ritual of the seminar. I introduce myself as
an employed opinion writer and faculty member, and before I can sit down
director Joan Armour calls me out. "He's also a graduate . . .
Call before you lynch.
"Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a
fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
SAMUEL JOHNSON
I pretty much had a ho-hum attitude about Armstrong Williams . . .
New research on the nature of letters and their
writers.(Letter-writing demography)
Late last year, some of my colleagues at Ohio University and I
finalized a national telephone survey project intended to find out what
demographic groups are the most likely to write letters to the . . .
In letters and columns alike, less is more.(Briefer, hipper
letters)
Yesterday's mail brought you two letters that needed to be
screened for publication before the morning news meeting.
One letter was three pages long; the other, half a page. Which did
you read . . .
Editorial pages and hip-hop meet at last: opinion writers from
younger generation offer fresh perspective.(SYMPOSIUM: Johnny we
At the Duluth News Tribune, our editorial page staff has nearly
seventy years in combined journalism experience.
That's between two people.
We're hardly atypical, and if the editorial page . . .
Youth must be served ... with editorials: reinstating the
editorial page allowed us to challenge leaders ... and
readers.(SYMPOS
My newspaper was one of the few that didn't have an editorial
page ... until this year. The Tribune at Marquette University
hadn't published editorials since 1994. But this year, we decided
to pull . . .
Editorially speaking, Sammy Hagar rocks: youth provides a
commonsense approach to opinion writing.(SYMPOSIUM: Johnny we hardly
k
Would you give opinion page readers advice from Sammy Hagar?
I did when I paraphrased his song "I Can't Drive 55"
in an editorial criticizing a proposal to lower speed limits.
Some of you are . . .
"Boldness" is newspapers' missing generation link:
our maturity isn't the problem; a lack of boldness might
be.(SYMPOSIUM: Johnn
Some editorial writers worry that our cultural mileposts date us,
letting younger readers know our dirty little secret: Most of us are
old. And not very hip. They think that prevents editorial . . .
Fight generation drift by trusting fundamentals: stay current,
don't do faux hipness, and, as always, trust the fundamentals of
TWO issues confront us as we contemplate generational differences
in our trade: One is writing. The other is managing across generational
lines.
The cast consists of four groups with a fifth on . . .
Writing for the ages.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
Some years ago--I think it was just after I wrote an editorial
regarding a bit of demonstration art that involved dripping a Manhattan
hotel room with strands of cheese--I began wondering if . . .
NCEW bids farewell to two great journalism academics.
Harry W. Stonecipher
Harry W. Stonecipher, longtime NCEW member and professor emeritus
of journalism at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, died on
December 26, 2004, in Carbondale. He was . . .
Honor counts.(President's letter: straight talk from Kay
Semion)(National Conference of Editorial Writers)
Early in 2005, press credibility came into sharp focus. With each
report of a breach of professional ethics, I found myself growing
angrier because all of us hard-working journalists pay a price.
. . .
The care and feeding of pundits and pols.(Legislative
conferences)
So, you're ready to schedule a legislative briefing. Here are
things to keep in mind:
* NCEW provides up to one thousand dollars for regional workshops,
but you must ask for board approval prior . . .
Wrangling legislatures.(Legislative conferences)
Imagine one great big editorial board meeting that includes
editorial writers from most of your state's newspapers. For Texas,
needless to say, that's quite a group. What politician possibly
could . . .
Conservative on-air commentator comes under fire for his
views.(Broadcast news)
When we welcomed Mark Hyman of Sinclair Broadcasting to NCEW
meetings two years ago, we had to tell him that he was our first new
broadcast member in years. Sadly, we confessed, editorials . . .
Portland offers perfect setting to explore civil
society.(Convention 2005)
Two hundred years ago, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark spent a
long, damp winter near the mouth of the Columbia River, trying to stay
civi1ized.
Today, Americans are still trying. This year's . . .
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