About 9:30 a.m.Thursday, Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins downloaded the Freeh report examining Penn State’s handling of Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse. She immediately skipped to the section about a 1998 allegation and saw emails between administrators noting that former … Read more
Why do we need editors?
It’s a provocative question to pose publicly if you’re a journalist, and that’s exactly what GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram did today on Twitter:
This will be an unpopular question, but why do we need editors? If
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Recently, I became so upset by the number of easily avoidable mistakes I was encountering in respected online and print outlets that I got in touch with Poynter, eager to write something making clear the risk these organizations were taking … Read more
When I was a kid, I was the walking definition of “painfully shy.” I was so shy, I couldn’t read out loud when teachers called on me, even though I could read at a higher grade level than my classmates. … Read more
Earlier this week, I looked at media coverage of claims by a neo-Nazi group that they were patrolling Sanford, Fla., in the wake of the Trayvon Martin killing.
At the time, local police said they had no evidence that the … Read more
CNN’s John Sutter and Edythe McNamee spent nearly a year trying to gain entry into Mauritania, where 10 to 20 percent of the population is still enslaved. Their project, “Slavery’s Last Stronghold,” shows the effects slavery has had … Read more
I get this question a lot these days: What makes a story a story? Every time I think I know the answer, someone changes the question.
Can you really tell stories in newspapers? Is there a place for storytelling in … Read more
Whether you’re covering agriculture, education, business or environmental issues, there’s a global component to your beat. Journalists increasingly need to understand the big picture to cover their communities.
“The global context used to be too large and abstract to matter … Read more
