Nancy Barnes, the former editor and senior vice president at the Star Tribune, has laid out her vision for the future of NPR News, the network’s public editor reports. Last October, Barnes was tabbed to take the job once held by the disgraced Michael Oreskes, forced to resign as the result of a sexual harassment scandal in 2017.
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One reason the Legacy Amendment is important: You can’t make money anymore being local. There aren’t enough local businesses left to fund it.
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Why do people so hate the media? This is why.
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NPR’s Scott Simon is coming to recognize what we all eventually do: people on the internet have no idea how to discuss anything in a civil manner. Read more →
TV reporters are outrageously vulnerable when they’re doing live interviews and “stand-ups” as we learned in 2015 when a TV reporter and her camera crew were shot to death on live TV.
What happened to a CBC reporter in Toronto the other night wasn’t murder, but it was an assault. Read more →
How tight is the National Football League with the TV networks who show the games?
Ask Bob Costas, the veteran NBC sports announcer who tells ESPN that NBC dropped him from last year’s Super Bowl coverage because he appeared at a University of Maryland symposium on football in November 2017 and said ‘the game destroys people’s brains.’ Read more →
I’m taking a pass on a Top 10 list this year because I’m not that crazy about 9 of the top 10, reflective, perhaps, of my inability to get out more this year, due to declining health and the difficulty of keeping the blog updated when I’m not in a position to do so. Like it or not, page views are the coin of the realm for people who need to justify their existence as bloggers. Read more →
Looking back now, it should have been obvious that Claas Relotius was ginning up his stories for the German magazine Der Spiegel, stories for which he won award after award until he was fired on Wednesday.
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Too many journalists never learn an important lesson and from the sound of press releases flying around about a TV show investigating the disappearance of Iowa anchorwoman Jodi Huisentruit, who hasn’t been seen since disappearing 23 years ago, a common mistake is about to be repeated. Read more →
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has taken the undermining of the free press to a new extreme, posting a Facebook video railing against an investigative journalism organization that has partnered with his state’s biggest newspaper. Read more →
For sure, the business is hard economically, and has been since Marconi. But over the years its method of advancement also provided networks with a steady stream of seasoned journalists. Only the best survived the winnowing process. Read more →
Nothing can save a journalism career like a little attribution. And yet, every now and again, we hear the stories of journalists who lift the work of other journalists and pass it as their own.
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Newspeople can get a bad rap. Sometimes they deserve it. For sure, it’s difficult to condense a lot of information into the bite-sized morsels that result in local TV news. But sometimes, the telling can do immense damage, particular if journalists think that every story must have a good guy and a bad guy.
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Nobody is in a more precarious position in assessing a person who hasn’t been buried yet than the nation’s journalists, as NPR ombudsman Elizabeth Jensen makes clear this week in her column. Read more →
Having patted himself on the back (according to White House sources) for keeping a civil tongue during the days of services for former President George H. W. Bush this week, President Trump returned to the security blanket of Twitter late Thursday.
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