Scott Libin is news director at WCCO-TV, the CBS-owned-and-operated station in Minneapolis. He joined the station in the fall of 2007 from The Poynter Institute, where he was managing editor of Poynter Online and a faculty member specializing in the areas of leadership and ethical decision-making. A broadcast journalist for many years, he also teaches newsgathering, writing and producing.
For many newspapers, digitizing decades of photo archives is important, but not urgent; always a goal, but never a priority; a great idea, but a huge expense. That’s why so many editors over the last few years have been so… Read more
In retrospect, maybe choosing the name TBD was prophetic.
Six months after its birth, the fate of the Washington, D.C., metro news site now appears to be determined — and it isn’t at all what the founding force behind… Read more
Turns out a guy on a camel charging through Cairo’s crowded Tahrir Square is a more compelling story to mainstream American news media than hundreds of snow-swamped cars stalled on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive. At least that’s one implication of… Read more
A week and a half ago, I heard my father’s voice for the first time in more than 20 years. That would have been extraordinary enough if only because my dad died in 1983, but the words I heard… Read more
Also, Jill Geisler proposes an unorthodox approach to minimizing risks and maximizing resources. See this week’s Leading Lines.
By Scott Libin
Poynter Online Managing Editor
Where I work, the legendary status
of Eugene Patterson is perhaps second only to that of Nelson Poynter
himself. Patterson won a Pulitzer Prize
for his Read more
During the first hour of the RTNDA convention’s opening panel discussion Sunday night, the only mention of news came during an online video chat moderator Miles O’Brien had with his 14-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter back in their rooms at… Read more
When journalists report on the death of a colleague or a competitor, it’s fair to compare their work with the way they’d handle such a story involving someone with whom they had no such close connection. Do they seem more… Read more