Know your writers' agendas and disclose them.
Columnist Armstrong Williams touched off furious discussions about
ethics in newsrooms across the country.
Tribune Media Services terminated his contract when it learned
Williams was under . . .
The endorsement that rocked a very small town.
When the editors of The Lone Star Iconoclast put the finishing
touches on the newspaper's September 29, 2004, editorial
endorsement of John Kerry for president, we had no premonition that . . .
Bush, Cheney merit four more years.(Boston Herald)(George W.
Bush)(Dick Cheney)
We started this new millennium celebrating the heroism of the
"Greatest Generation," remember? The ideal of America as the
world's liberator, its selfless men and women leaving homes and
families . . .
A blue state newspaper endorses George Bush.
"Am I blue?"
Well, the lyrics of that old ballad notwithstanding, the answer has
to be, not exactly.
Sure, on that electoral map, Massachusetts is bluer than blue,
according to the 1.8 million . . .
We recommend ... president of the United States: John
Kerry.(Bradenton Herald)
When the Herald recommended the election of George W. Bush as
president of the United States four years ago, we lauded his record in
Texas as a consensus builder and expressed confidence in his . . .
Readers say they just want the facts, but do they?
Newspaper editors in Red States who fail to toe the dominant party
line are either pinko idiots or stooges of their left-wing corporate
bosses.
No, wait! They're courageous warriors whose . . .
Direct participation makes a community board work.
Getting readers involved in editorial pages beyond the traditional
letters to the editor isn't really a difficult task. Anyone reading
the page in the first place has his or her own opinions, to be . . .
Ideologues of any stripe are seldom satisfied.
When there were several newspapers in every city, and most were the
personal playthings of publishers with an ax to grind, nobody expected
fairness and balance.
Most cities today, however, have . . .
Shakespeare blogged.(Symposium: how bloggers are changing opinion
framing in America)
I recall an essay I read in third grade--by some obscure Victorian
Era scribbler--that argued William Shakespeare's poetry and plays
and the King James Bible were "the roots of modern English."
. . .
My audience is smarter than me.(Symposium: how bloggers are
changing opinion framing in America)
There was a time when opinion writing was the province of a select
fortunate few.
Any crank could write a screed, photocopy it, and pass it out on a
street corner. But to be taken seriously, to . . .
The 'old media' meets the 'new
media'.(Symposium: how bloggers are changing opinion framing in
America)
It's not too soon to look back on the 2004 election and
declare it something of a watershed in the history of media and American
politics. This was the first election where two of the biggest . . .
Bloggers: the light at the end of the newspaper's
tunnel.(Symposium: how bloggers are changing opinion framing in
America)
It's customary for anyone writing to the uninitiated about
blogs to define them. This is a journalism trade publication and you are
no ordinary reader, so I'll spare you the customary definition.
. . .
Offering a 'counterweight' to mainstream press
coverage.(Symposium)
I write for the Power Line blog (powerlineblog.com) together with
two other like-minded, politically conservative attorneys. Our site
features commentary and analysis that applies a gimlet eye to . . .
New kids in our neighborhood.(Editor's Note)
AS THIS SPRING ISSUE of The Masthead goes (God willing) to the
publisher, the forces of old journalism and new journalism are
colliding, with some nasty results.
Rathergate, the great clash . . .
New members of NCEW: January 1-June 30, 2004.(Member
News)
James Barbieri, editor in chief of The News-Banner of Bluffton,
Indiana
Jim Beamguard, associate editor of The Tampa Tribune in Florida
Christine Bertelson, editorial page editor of St. . . .
Milestones, awards, educational opportunities.(Member News)(Brief
Article)
Jay Ambrose of the Scripps Howard Washington Bureau is the 2004
Virginius Dabney Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Virginia
Commonwealth University's school of mass communications. Dabney . . .
Make time for Chicago's fun, professional
growth.(President's letter: straight talk from Lynnell
Burkett)
By the time issue of The Masthead appears, the mean season will be
in full swing.
Unfortunately, that is the way I've come to view political
campaign time, particularly in presidential election . . .
Tom Dearmore wrote with eloquent voice.(Brief
Article)(Obituary)
Tom Dearmore punched some of the more prestigious and interesting
tickets in his field during a distinguished career in newspaper opinion
writing that ended with his death at age 76.
NCEW members . . .
Henny Willis known for talent, fairness.(Brief
Article)(Obituary)
Henny Willis, longtime reporter and editorial writer for The
Register-Guard of Eugene, Oregon, and a member of NCEW, was found dead
in his home May 21. The seventy-year-old writer and entertainer . . .
Goin' to Kansas City.... why not?(2007 Convention
Bid)
Choose KC and you will:
* Be guaranteed the tastiest barbecue in the world--just ask Calvin
Trillin of The New Yorker.
* Hear the finest jazz in intimate settings every night, including
the . . .
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