Editor's Desk
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK | Commenting on comments
Margaret Reinhardt writes:MORE »
"Sometimes I think that newspapers have lost their way given the competition with other news sources particularly television. Newspapers have always had something that TV news doesn't: the opportunity for readers to provide feedback via commentaries, letters to the editors, and op-ed pieces. Along comes online newspapers with a quick way to allow feedback, and publishers are back in the game of attracting readers. Indeed reader comments are popular, but are they the right thing to do?
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK | Balloon boy's questions for journalism
The phony balloon boy story made headlines across the country, and raised questions about how the police and media got taken for a ride by a couple of unprincipled headline-hunters.MORE »
Thinking about race, gender and equity
"I am a recovering chauvinist," Metric Giles told the group gathered to talk about race and equity. "God blessed me with six daughters. And that brought me to realize that I have privilege as a man. I realize it - but I still have it, because the system still gives it to me. My decision is how to use it and what to do with it."MORE »
Credit where credit is due
The ongoing debate over fair use ranges AP's attacks on aggregators to the question of when and how bloggers credit the original sources of stories. A parallel complaint from the blogosphere focuses on how the legacy media pick up stories or ideas from blogs, without giving any credit to the source.
Recently, for example, Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab reported:MORE »
Journalism and professionalism
Critics of new media often say that bloggers, aggregators, and "new media" generally are parasites on the work of newspapers and other "real" or legacy media. They say that newspapers and legacy media pay for the real reporting work, and then bloggers and aggregators just come along and use it.MORE »
Transparency and reporting
We regularly publish Doug McGill's excellent reporting on the local, Minnesota connections to global human rights issues, and just as regularly publish vitriolic attacks that come in the comment section from defenders of repressive regimes.MORE »
Transparency and reporting
We regularly publish Doug McGill's excellent reporting on the local, Minnesota connections to global human rights issues, and just as regularly publish vitriolic attacks that come in the comment section from defenders of repressive regimes.MORE »
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK | Distance vs. transparency
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Recession stories
Recession stories: Neighborhood businesses
• Riding out the recession from The Bridge
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