Andrew Beaujon
Nov. 2, 2012
1:20 pm
Pennlive.com
Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News politics writer Robert Vickers published a column Friday about
why he's voting for Mitt Romney. In a chat with readers, he talked about the decision, still unusual for a newspaper reporter, to publicly disclose his vote. It wasn't a suicide mission, apparently: In the chat, a reader asked whether he would remain with the paper after it
reduces staff and print frequency next year. "I've been asked to stay on and have agreed to do so," Vickers wrote. Some more excerpts:
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Oct. 16, 2012
8:22 am
A little over a month into her job, Margaret Sullivan has been transforming the traditional role of The New York Times public editor — by blogging almost every weekday and using social media to add a mix of voices and … Read more
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Andrew Beaujon
Sep. 25, 2012
11:50 am
Reddit
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof
answered readers' questions on Reddit Monday. Here are some highlights:
• Kristof tries to produce as much copy as he can from his trips abroad: "[G]iven how long it takes to get to the places I go, I need to be sure that if I get there, I can do several different columns from that destination." And he thinks
the appetite for foreign reporting is waning:
The big challenge for foreign reporting is that I think the U.S. is losing interest. For a decade or so after 9/11, the U.S. was quite interested in the world, an aberration in our history of insularity. Now I think we're reverting the more normal situation where we're quite inward looking. That also poses huge problems for those of us who care about global poverty.
• He admits he
likes making the "most emailed" list. (Here are
some tips for doing that.)
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Andrew Beaujon
Sep. 17, 2012
4:03 pm
The Seattle Times |
Association of Opinion Journalists |
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On the Media
A Seattle Times editorial published Monday
asks for help from readers who approve of the editorial board's
support of a Washington state referendum that will enshrine same-sex marriage in state law.
The editorial directs readers to a photo of a sign published in the Sunday print paper and a link to the photo. It then asks them to:
Take a photo of you, your partner or your family holding this sign and share it on Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #IDo74. You can also email the photo to ido@seattletimes.com.
The paper has a photo gallery of people
holding the sign. The Seattle Times' editorial section, which is
a finalist for 2012 the Online News Association awards, has been experimenting with new ways of approaching editorials. Earlier this year,
it published a "rap op-ed" in response to local shootings.
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Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 14, 2012
12:10 pm
Goldman Sachs executive director Greg Smith proved Wednesday morning that few things send up a stronger smoke signal on the Internet than the flames of
a burning bridge. Storify follows:
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Steve Myers
Jan. 13, 2012
9:09 am
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Jan. 13, 2012
7:05 am
“At small newspapers we don’t have the luxury of separating the people who cover the news from the people who write opinion pieces. Instead, we work hard to provide fair and unbiased coverage of local news. Then, we look at how that news impacts the people in our community and take a stand as needed on our editorial page.”
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Sharon Burton, publisher of the Adair County (Kentucky) Community Voice
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Julie Moos
Nov. 27, 2011
10:04 am
New Hampshire Union Leader | C-SPAN | CNN
The front-page editorial endorsing the former Speaker of the House and GOP presidential hopeful reads, in part:
Our nation is in peril, yet much of the attention has been focused on fluff, silliness and each candidate's minor miscues.
Truth be known, many in the liberal media are belittling the Republican candidates because they don't want any of them to be taken as a serious challenger to their man, Obama.
Publisher Joseph McQuaid elaborated on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal":
The polls show that [Mitt] Romney maintains a lead, which is understandable ... but the polls also show a tremendous amount of indecision on the part of the voters. And we said in the editorial that we thought that part of that was what has been the national media focus to date on the Republican campaign, which has been to really magnify every little mistake any one of them makes and not concentrate on the broader issues.
McQuaid explained how the endorsement was decided:
There's no great behind-the-scenes process. There are precisely two of us at the paper who write the editorials, myself and Drew Cline, who runs our editorial page, and he's been in on all the meetings with the candidates, although I've had occasion to go out to dinner with one or two of them separately to try to size them up as individuals. And we talk about it and we came to the conclusion a few weeks ago that it really came down to two or three candidates and who was going to best grab the moment and not really be a manager if he got into office.
Cline told CNN Sunday morning that those two candidates were Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
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