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- + The core principles of ethical journalism remain the same...
- + Clearly, being precise is one of The Pilot's goals...
- + A legacy of a young boy's death...
- + Ono? Oh, yes...
- + The new size of the paper, crossword puzzles and zoned local...
- + Controversial 'B.C.' cartoon triggers varied reader response...
- + Too little, too late, for grieving family...
- + Ledes and ''pyramids'' can help draw you in...
- + And on this matter of quotes, you can quote me...
- + Still trying to get the main thing right, even in the comics...
- + Readers: Too much A.D. with 'B.C.'...
- + Reader resents 'peacenik' term describing death penalty foes...
- + Controversial comic strip...
- + The power of the photograph...
- + The Inquirer plans important changes in local coverage and r...
- + Vulgar phrase didn't belong in comic strip...
- + Pancreatic cancer deserves more coverage in the news...
May 2001 (View complete archive page)
- + Booty finders not always keepers...
- + First children are not like other kids...
- + How The Inquirer reached the decision to print editorials on...
- + Globe was right: no White House vandalism...
- + A visit to the business of words...
- + Gazette Roundtables spark comments, suggestions, criticisms ...
- + What's in a picture? Peril, misrepresentation and death...
- + Details, in some scenarios, help establish credibility...
- + Derailed by the facts...
- + Newspaper complaints often similar...
- + One word would have improved caption...
- + Readers offer good suggestions in a forum with news staffers...
- + Race and crime stories rarely mix well...
- + Readers strike back at cartoon...
- + Errors creep into any (printed) language...
- + The Herald does not publish unverified rumors...
- + Places, faces in the news that warrant more coverage...
- + And at the finish, it's ... Steinau...
- + Some feel crash killed 5, not 4...
- + Did the latest 'Fast Eddie' put over one final hustle?...
- + Identifying rape victim was a delicate matter...
- + Survey explains what readers want the press to do and be...
- + Unsubstantiated allegations mar Davis vandalism story...
- + Registering a practical complaint...
- + Inside story...
- + Photo a snippet of life, not how-to...
- + When mistakes are made...
- + Sharp comments from our readers...
- + A good example, but the wrong story...
- + Readers have the questions: answer man has the answers...
- + Newspaper covers diversity of thought, race, gender...
- + Energy crisis generates demand for tough reporting...
- + Readers worldwide express common concerns...
- + When a victim's name is no longer part of the story...
- + When it comes to getting things right, no part of a paper is...
- + Controversy over B.C. comic lingers...
- + Figuring out when to cover a suicide as news is tricky...
- + House speaker's admonition of lawmaker is too ironic...
- + Crowd estimate didn't add up to one reader...
- + Curiosity, lawsuits sparked series...
- + What our columnists say about hearing from readers...
- + Readers all over share similar concerns...
- + Accuracy, precision in language concern readers everywhere...
- + Skeptical inquiry, or a free pass to the audience?...
- + Newspapers must pass credibility test...
June 2001 (View complete archive page)
- + City limits...
- + All we are saying is give peace a page...
- + When is it truly tasteless?...
- + Editors struggled with Bagwell-Fiore story...
- + The never-ending quest to prevent and correct errors...
- + Victims of violence have good advice for fourth estate...
- + The Courant got narrower -- and readers reacted...
- + Glenn Allen Scott leaves stamp on The Pilot, region...
- + Identity problem: Anonymous sources...
- + Editorial staff and newsroom roles separate...
- + Abused girl's name was omitted for good reason...
- + Readers near and far have common complaints...
- + How reporter spent part of her life on 'Broken Lives' series...
- + Challenging questions from readers...
- + Sports keep local reporter on the run...
- + Buying into the 'hood ...
- + Sincerely yours...
- + Photographers should ask questions to fairly depict news...
- + Thoughts on privacy and the Bush twins...
- + Lyon on writing: Observe, observe, observe...
- + Special sections honor students...
- + A salute, yes, but not a 21-gun salute...
- + Significant deaths from afar get short shrift in Bee...
- + Pegging number of manatees is always a difficult challenge...
- + Local Hispanics offer coverage ideas...
- + Internet gives papers a way to outrace time...
- + The ethical question: What's in a name?...
- + Gun enthusiasts should see changes in news coverage...
- + An upbeat teen's tears downplayed...
- + Internet gives papers a way to outrace time...
- + Revisiting Sunday...
- + Mostly praise for front page on McVeigh execution...
- + Journalists have a serious responsibility to the public, aut...
- + Public recognizes when paper's staff puts in extra effort...
- + Reader wonders why Tel Aviv suicide bombing didn't make fron...
- + Let there be peace on these pages...
- + Some stories never see print -- for better or worse...
- + We're serious about new look...
- + Cancun coverage gave parents an inside view...
- + Hispanics meet with Star journalists, offer coverage ideas...
- + Misrepresenting mental illness...
- + Practical man flirts with the edge...
- + Distinguishing opinions from news...
- + A president's secret trips to San Diego...
- + Resident caught up in same-name game with teacher...
- + Reader: Enjoy a war-free day courtesy of the greatest genera...
- + Our newest newspaper has no paper -- it's a CD...
- + When leaks backfire...
- + Column's barbs are fighting words to WWII generation...
- + Readers question coverage of Clinton...
- + A difference of opinion makes a horse race and a newspaper...
- + Reader sees gender bias in sex-misconduct story...
- + Naming juveniles in crime stories is an oft-weighed newsroom...
- + Sharing truth, however painful, is a paper's duty...
- + Misleading stories compound anguish about traffic deaths...
- + Why story about Edina robbery didn't include descriptions of...
- + First comes the sad news, then the really good news...
- + What readers want...
- + Of photographs and illustrations...
- + New service offers better gauge of public opinion...
- + A journey to Afghanistan...
- + Anthropology an inexact science...
- + Readers' responses display their passion, deep thought...
- + Tasmanian penguins are well dressed...
- + Florida episodes put media ethics in limelight...
- + Errors in MEAP story spur anger...
- + The slow response to Kelley departure...
- + Amid the breaking news and sad tales, stories that touch rea...
- + In the holiday spirit...
- + Really, trust me, it's true, and stop rolling your eyes...
- + Coverage of Memorial Day, night games an inexact science...
- + Does bias make a difference?...
- + `Phenomenal abdominals' like `Spam'?...
- + Columnist is all business when it comes to business...
- + 'We had it'...
- + With new lineup, paper aims to keep comics fresh, funny...
- + Region's state of bus service would make interesting story...
- + Images can stir healthy debate...
- + Nobody's perfect...
- + Memorial Day coverage could have been more useful...
- + Local news doesn't stop or start at county line...
July 2001 (View complete archive page)
- + Mayor is miffed, maybe, but not `queasy'...
- + Back-to-back photo assignments: From Einhorn to Merlino to M...
- + A way to judge The Courant...
- + We treat interns like professionals...
- + Paper took careful, deliberate tack with Jackson's comments...
- + Anfwers at laft...
- + Stories people respond to...
- + Readers cite familiar complaints about The Bee...
- + Vision story excites many...
- + Suicides sometimes become news...
- + Em favor da cooperao...
- + Media coverage on the lives of 2 women...
- + Dangerous trends in sacred territory...
- + Losing a wealth of talented journalists makes The Inquirer's...
- + Where some journalists get their start...
- + Can public radio journalism be re-invented?...
- + A humanizing or dehumanizing photo?...
- + Beware of experts, worn-out clichs...
- + Curious Bee readers ask plenty of good questions...
- + Is the Sentinel conservative or liberal?...
- + 'Blatant liberal bias'...
- + Readers can suit up as Star editors for a day...
- + Gay prom coverage draws fire; readers cite advocacy, balance...
- + Assuntos melindrosos...
- + Mind your language...
- + Explanations don't ease readers' views of bias...
- + Where there's a will, there's a whale of a clich...
- + Internet sites now familiar sight in paper...
- + Taking stock of the Levy story; Search for intern prompts ex...
- + Editors done broke their own rules...
- + The quiz that flunked American history...
- + One big story gives Journal new front page...
- + Journalism a la Nancy Drew with a touch of O'Neill...
- + Bee's top 12 clichs -- our bottom line, to be sure?...
- + Messrs Right...
- + Internet hoax spread like wildfire...
- + A bad day at the office for Tribune reporters and editors...
- + Discussion helps others understand paper's role ...
- + Covering the biotechnology protests...
- + Readers tell of stories that touched them long after the new...
- + Crime coverage forum a big step...
- + The road to the Ellis story...
- + A picket fence on an electronic prairie...
- + Reader thoughts: criminals, errors, photos and flags...
- + Slavery story raises question: Should media change reality?...
- + An age of conflict and change...
- + Coverage of missing intern not media's finest hour...
- + Street addresses make news easier to grasp...
- + For readers with complaints, public editor is advocate...
- + Labeling racism...
- + Reader thoughts: criminals, errors, photos and flags...
- + Wanted: a catchy headline to draw you to this column...
August 2001 (View complete archive page)
- + Bias in eye of beholder...
- + Count off: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, . . ....
- + Chumming for stories on big, bad sharks...
- + In this family's homemade vacation paper, a return to journa...
- + A controversial obit for Aryan leader...
- + Is journalistic deception ever justified?...
- + What they say about Bee, from 'marvelous' to 'sub-par'...
- + A city, a reporter and a love affair in Portsmouth...
- + A dent in bumper of credibility...
- + How should newspapers cover suicides?...
- + Example of the press at its tenacious best...
- + The making of a First Amendment martyr...
- + Fairness an issue in rape cases...
- + Rape story not unfair, just specific...
- + He doesn't have time to read Bee the way it is now...
- + Ethical guidelines, good journalism sometimes collide ...
- + 'B.C.' obviously stands for 'Back to the Comics' ...
- + We're 'branding' The Virginian-Pilot again...
- + Caught napping...
- + Avoiding copycats with sensitivity...
- + Exercise shows many dismiss water cooler stories...
- + Newspaper isn't doing its job if it ignores one segment of t...
- + Tall ships and ringing phones...
- + Farewell, dear readers, and mea culpa...
- + Knowing when to use photos is not a snap...
- + Is The Pilot unfair to the military?...
- + 2 languages -- 1 community...
- + Newspapers' bent is not in the news...
- + Serving a smorgasbord to readers on different diets...
- + Clinton's book deal received bigger play in many papers...
- + Race and Relevance ...
- + Papers Aren't Bound By LDS Name Change ...
- + Be careful about what you accept as truth on the Internet...
- + Where are the news proofreaders? They don't exist...
- + Reaching the delicate balance between news, ads...
- + Where are we?...
- + Nary a cross word -- except from puzzle fans...
- + Errors and apologies...
- + The evolving 'look' of newspapers...
- + Bee should be watchdog, not arm of law enforcement...
- + A watchdog, not a participant...
- + Published letter causes grief for the wrong Wayn...
- + There often is a grain of truth in newspaper complaints ...
- + Player photo disturbing but powerful...
- + A flying reptile threatens integrity of news columns ...
- + Journalists work to be sensitive...
- + Bad teeth and other stereotypes...
- + You be the editor ...
September 2001 (View complete archive page)
- + Coverage criticized and praised...
- + Angry comments drive out preachy thoughts...
- + Complaints return so things must be getting normal again...
- + Bad news beeds good care...
- + Canadian's '73 tribute still moves Americans...
- + Loose lips? Mixed signals...
- + Declaring a war on words during this sensitive time...
- + Beware of news tipsters without names...
- + During times of crisis, a daily silver lining...
- + Compelling news brings change...
- + Requests pour in for cartoon, flag...
- + My year of life on the lam...
- + T-U width change responses are mostly positive so far...
- + Readers applaud Bee, urge more international news...
- + The Pentagon and the press, again ...
- + Battle is joined by ACLU director...
- + For journalists, horrific news left little time to cry...
- + In renewed nation, Muslims made to feel at home...
- + Some are united against photo ...
- + Covering war in the deep, dark shadows...
- + Terms to learn from another part of the world ...
- + Innocent man fell through the cracks...
- + A deluge of feedback from all over the world...
- + Virtual hatred, virtual hope...
- + Freedom flees in terror from Sept. 11 disaster...
- + Extra coverage to fit a historic event...
- + As America burned, newspaper got busy...
- + Media show strengths in covering attacks...
- + Staff-wide dedication got 'extra' on the streets...
- + Readers criticize photos from horrible attacks...
- + Single focus: To help readers understand what happened...
- + Journalists work through the pain ...
- + Tuesday's tragedy called for an extra effort from Star-Tribu...
- + Journalists put their emotion aside...
- + Day one: Getting to Ground Zero...
- + Behind the coverage of a tragic event...
- + Staff efforts, public response show newspaper's role...
- + Information staggered Star newsroom as tragedy unfolded...
- + T-D fulfills strange role of today's news today...
- + Extraordinary newspapering...
- + Photos of tower victims told awful truth...
- + In crisis, journalists cope on the job ...
- + When the unthinkable hits, journalists help people make sens...
- + Our reaction to Tuesday's tragic events...
- + In a crisis, journalists do whatever it takes...
- + Freedom of press is too precious to be fettered...
- + Working away during a tragedy...
- + Scarce edition, photo rile readers...
- + TV brings terror into our homes and lives...
- + Let level heads prevail ...
- + Readers' roundtable, for insights into the newspaper and the...
- + Fighting for a free press in harsh land...
- + Bee then and now: What a difference 25 years make...
- + Hold-your-nose news...
- + Editors: Don't let TV dirt drag you down...
- + Walking a few miles in editors' shoes...
- + Making the tough calls on coverage...
- + A new liaison for readers, at your service...
- + Condit coverage is overkill as tragedy becomes political...
- + Star's reader advocate 'hot seat' has a new occupant...
- + You 'durn newspaper guys' can't hardly do things right...
- + Here's why we wrote about ''obvious racist''...
- + Enfim a lista". E agora?..."...
October 2001 (View complete archive page)
- + Bill Whitehurst is alive -- really...
- + Whose side are you on, Courant?...
- + The freedom to show the colors -- or not...
- + Hey! Have you noticed Election Day is nigh?...
- + We're on the side of truth and information in war...
- + Media missed the boat on foreign news...
- + Adjusting the information flow to wartime...
- + The war on journalism...
- + The free flow of information is essential for informed publi...
- + Fast-changing news keeps editors and readers on the run...
- + Finding an image of hope on the day America cried...
- + A duty to inform, not alarm...
- + Giving a hoot ...
- + Real, imagined threats rattle some readers ...
- + Arts hold keys to emotional rescue ...
- + Graphic photo of dead dogs vital to story...
- + Newspapers forced into safety policies with mail ...
- + Deciding the editorial line on Afghanistan...
- + Reporting close up from far away...
- + Military keeps its secrets even as paper keeps folks informe...
- + Must war bring curbs on speech?...
- + Information must merit anonymity...
- + On the lookout for stereotyping ...
- + Rumors, speculation follow war...
- + Small details can mar the big picture...
- + Bush and the bacon-cooler ...
- + Worlds apart ...
- + On patriotism and journalism ...
- + Are we divulging too much information to our enemies?...
- + Are we divulging too much information to our enemies?...
- + About those loose lips and sinking ships...
- + On the ground in northern Afghanistan, reporter prepares to ...
- + Can covering the news be unpatriotic?...
- + Readers still voice opinions of paper...
- + You have a stake in our decisions...
- + 'B.C.' strip was drawn before attacks...
- + Some T-U changes bring disdain, not comic relief...
- + Using words for effect: 'Bioterror' and 'terrorist'...
- + Thousands in 'Human Flag,' not one word in Bee...
- + The press is not the enemy...
- + Living with fear...
- + Uplifting story of runner erases gloom -- and fast...
- + Information highway raises the speed limits...
- + Freedom of Speech Also Lost on Sept. 11...
- + An ombud's diary: Privacy, bias, fairness...
- + T-shirt test...
- + If you need help, try one of these numbers...
- + Clarity needed when race is angle...
- + Seeing Sept. 11 through different prism...
- + Motherhood, apple pie and dissenting opinions...
- + Readers respond with mountain of letters...
November 2001 (View complete archive page)
- + Missing the essence of a religion...
- + In covering race, commitment is the key...
- + Our sanity questioned after terror stories run...
- + Journalism and patriotism II: Have we become 'journalists wi...
- + When the numbers don't make sense...
- + Great Sept. 11 tribute, but where was White?...
- + Connecting the dots ...
- + Not so reliable...
- + Racial issues are relevant to many stories...
- + Satire toned down in terrorism crisis...
- + Tools tweak photos to sharpen quality, not to alter content...
- + Critics think media may be 'giving terrorists ideas' ...
- + Readers remind Star that 'loose lips sink ships'...
- + After a roller-coaster year of big stories and budget cuts, ...
- + Even a family film reviewer has critics...
- + Where were the Libertarians in election preview?...
- + Some readers aren't pleased with entertainment coverage...
- + Haste makes mistakes, World Series doesn't make Page 1...
- + Covering the anthrax scare without scaring the public ...
- + Wire stories edited to make them better, not to create a bia...
- + Are we divulging too much information to our enemies?...
- + Patriotism and journalism: An uneasy coexistence?...
- + Readers provided six years of lessons...
- + A recovered book, a quirky coincidence...
- + Do perceptions color news?...
- + Headline, news display come under fire...
- + Courant failed to put photo in context...
- + Photo manipulation: Too much wizardry...
- + Questions Make for a Challenging Week ...
December 2001 (View complete archive page)
- + Historic milestone makes slavery relevant in news...
- + C-J's Civil Liberties roundtable: Jan. 9 at the Speed Museum...
- + The top news story was no surprise...
- + Room for improvement in 2002...
- + Heroes on the homefront: A tribute to others who serve...
- + Articles on spiritual topics take a religious approach...
- + Publisher's speech touches a nerve across the U.S....
- + What good are press conferences? Understanding the messy a...
- + Selling papers not the goal of race coverage...
- + Paper's goal is to effectively serve readers...
- + For the record, paper should explain strategy...
- + When a doughnut war makes the news...
- + Computer failed and newspaper faltered...
- + Bring your voice to news advisory board...
- + Questions of taste...
- + Origin of contentious word less telling than debate about it...
- + This week's cartoon controversy...
- + The Pilot's challenge: Finding right ''home'' for stories...
- + What were the top stories of 2001?...
- + She advised the readers to lie -- so should they?...
- + Reader advocate position celebrates silver anniversary ...
- + Accuracy checklists plan helping...
- + Accuracy was lost in the translation...
- + T-U seeks to make changes for the better, editor says...
- + I'm grateful that life remains interesting ...
- + `Boondocks' comic strip hits political nerve...
- + Post haste:another surge in e-mails -- in both directions ...
- + Readers take up gauntlet to edit...
January 2002 (View complete archive page)
- + The danger of defining 'parents'...
- + What's up with nicknames used in The Philadelphia 'The Inky'...
- + Editorial cartoons are meant to be outrageous...
- + Arrivederci, Dear Readers...
- + Kind words for staffers are long remembered...
- + Removing The Wall gives hope for future...
- + And now the news ... for the humor impaired?...
- + What's the best course on coverage of race?...
- + High-speed chase catches him napping...
- + Credibility hit deserved in our RPS treatment...
- + Starting off the new year by reading thank-you notes...
- + Tech-education story trots out stereotypes...
- + We remember...
- + Taking the president at his word...
- + ...Portrait of Democracy...
- + Spellings usually are a matter of style...
- + Pictures of children used without permission...
- + A Muslim leader and a media frenzy ...
- + Thin cancer story shortchanged readers...
- + Is that us in the foto?...
- + Irrelevant facts taint accident story...
- + Newspapers respond to errors in print...
- + Which event needs more coverage?...
February 2002 (View complete archive page)
- + Perception gap in Mideast coverage...
- + Should articles, headlines emphasize positive?...
- + Lying could jeopardize U.S. interests...
- + On bad words: Aim a little higher...
- + Slow learners: recurring errors and how to avoid them ...
- + A mistake that no editor flagged...
- + NPR's Middle East 'problem'...
- + When values collide ...
- + Covering the Danielle story responsibly...
- + Teen transcending Springfield's past is at heart of story ...
- + Crossword woes leave readers clueless...
- + Public relations and newspapers...
- + Carpet bombing Freedom of Information...
- + A merged newspaper, 10 years later...
- + Thanks, readers, you've taught me valuable lessons ...
- + Here's your chance to be the copy editor...
- + They demand the partisanship they claim to despise...
- + Making your voices heard...
- + Metro Business strives to include faces of all...
- + Complaints restore Sports Digest to TV Greensheet...
- + Embarrassing errors hurt credibility...
- + Goodbye to a job that let readers be teachers ...
March 2002 (View complete archive page)
- + Eulogies are nice, but they aren't news obituaries...
- + In death, a chance to celebrate life...
- + Some saw photo as cruel to hockey player...
- + Power ad insert paraded as news...
- + Choosing photos to tell the story...
- + Readers and Reporters -- Who's Biased? ...
- + Violence of crimes justifies putting the stories on Page One...
- + Frankly, we do give a darn about profanity...
- + Going public with secret documents...
- + Gag orders don't limit media reporting...
- + Was photo of Palestinian boy authentic?...
- + Does Bee slant coverage of Israeli-Palestinian conflict?...
- + Differing views of photo: an intrusion or comforting...
- + Balancing Mideast coverage...
- + Let's give young victims a human face...
- + Lesser evils: the corrections that got away ...
- + The Inquirer in cross fire as readers take issue with covera...
- + Pressure campaigns: Getting NPR's attention...
- + Naming victims hurts more than helps, some say...
- + Switching comic strips turns out to be no laughing matter...
- + When incumbents are in the news...
- + Not bowled over by 'Gutter talk'...
- + Revised ethics policy guides how we work...
April 2002 (View complete archive page)
- + Bias on the church scandal? ...
- + Health news stories score big with all kinds of readers...
- + Readers do a turnabout on picture...
- + Practicing restraint and good news judgment...
- + Balance is often in the eye of the beholder...
- + Newspapers adapt to the Internet Age...
- + Ethics policy guides staff, informs public...
- + Bloody photo from Mideast sparks debate...
- + Human trauma of Mideast blast clear in graphic photo ...
- + Public opinion 101: What does a poll really say? ...
- + From my corner, The Chronicle erred on rally coverage...
- + Sin of omission: Star erred on Israel rally story...
- + Should Beacon name juveniles? Readers divided...
- + Bias is turning out to be the all-purpose charge of dissente...
- + Suburban readers are an important audience ...
- + When a secret really isn't a secret...
- + This time, the source was wrong...
- + Are they 'terrorists,' 'gunmen,' or 'guerrillas'?...
- + Newspapers try to balance journalism and profits...
- + As 'terror' his print more often, it risks packing less punc...
- + Health care issues are a hot topic among T-U readers...
- + Why isn't public told entire story? Is press timid?...
- + Where context is king ...
- + Reporting the facts, however unpleasant...
May 2002 (View complete archive page)
- + How not to organize a shooting story...
- + Article on Christian group draws mixed responses...
- + Conflicting information...
- + Transparency in news gathering...
- + Career tips for those interested in journalis...
- + Explanation of trial conflict can't ease pain...
- + Picture of a 'suspect' tells the wrong story ...
- + Ombudsmen meet and raise questions about the craft...
- + Democracy and truth seeking ...
- + Reader meeting brings changes in Mideast coverage...
- + War and pieces:criticism of our Middle East coverage ...
- + Danielle, Jahi and our coverage...
- + Caught in a Web site snafu...
- + Introspection opens staff to awareness of selves, readers ...
- + The public's love-hate relationship with newspapers...
- + Battling poison with ink and holy water...
- + A global mission to improve journalism ...
- + Covering story of Middle East...
- + Photographers strive for accuracy in print...
- + Information for a free, self-governing society...
- + 9/11 stirred appetites for accurate news...
- + Caught in the Crossfire ...
- + Double standard on identification?...
June 2002 (View complete archive page)
- + Fly in the soup...
- + Headlines demand clarity, not sensitivity...
- + Enquirer's muzzling should cause concern...
- + Teen cello prodigy's troubles were part of story he shared...
- + Covering a sensitive story ...
- + Some stories in wrong place at wrong time...
- + Where the religion is the (U.S.) state...
- + Paper needs ideas for better safety coverage ...
- + In Camden County, a First Amendment clash...
- + Biased news report or opinion column?...
- + Pro-Serra...
- + Reliability of News a rightful concern of media, readers...
- + There's a fine line between explanation, how-to...
- + Reader advocate is link to community...
- + Far-away conflict, local concern: Attention to both sides...
- + Readers object to photograph of mourning mom...
- + Painful lesson on the right to a fair trial...
- + A happy story with a sad ending...
- + First period...
- + Anonymity should not be used carelessly...
- + Fairness is key concern when reputation at risk ...
- + Business, media not always on same page...
- + Story on Smart case was good reporting...
- + Reconfigured sections a balancing act of news, ads ...
- + Impartiality of journalists in the public and / or North Ame...
- + Sex diary on front page at issue...
- + A photo too overwhelming for some...
- + Eyes off the mark...
- + New books on journalism are worthy of public view...
- + Tense times ...
- + Gay Days coverage lacked sensitivity...
- + Listening to Hoosier readers ...
- + Credibility hurt by article reprinted as ad...
- + Do sports columnists carry a license for name-calling?...
- + Press must hold leaders accountable...
- + Compromised headlines...
July 2002 (View complete archive page)
- + Announcing gay unions...
- + Blocking the sun...
- + Reports of missing children call for action and restraint...
- + Sunday coupons, sales tax on readers' minds...
- + If the - - - - are absent, don't fret, it's all right...
- + Four will get chance to follow a legend...
- + Why didn't The Bee put Isreali attack on Page 1?...
- + Q: What part of the paper has lower accuracy standard? A: Su...
- + An undervalued perspective...
- + Matters of life and death...
- + The case of the missing police sketch...
- + The case of the missing police sketch...
- + Statistics...
- + Painful images ...
- + Story's message gets lost...
- + Victory kiss wasn't a hit with all readers...
- + Word by word and story by story, Mideast coverage is under s...
- + A bunch of nothing ...
- + Heroics on bridge at heart of report of suicide attempt...
- + Heroics on bridge at heart of report on suicide attempt...
- + The wall between news and opinion...
- + Your right to know where we get our information ...
- + We try to get it right -- that's no joke...
- + Obit's focus on a bad 1978 poll rankled readers...
- + No facts? No problem; Smart story endures ...
- + When police put their credibility at risk...
- + Sorting out the murky ethics of reporting...
- + Crime coverage forum a big step...
- + Political correctness on immigrants?...
- + Some of my best friends ...
August 2002 (View complete archive page)
- + When should race be used as an identifier?...
- + Extra! Behind the rush to print...
- + No funny business when it comes to deciding what comic strip...
- + Bad taste...
- + Attack on Midvale Girl Is Ethics Test for Media ...
- + Painful facts about missing girls key to filling out their s...
- + What's the threshold for referring to religion?...
- + Church scandals and news placement...
- + the line between libel and free comment ...
- + Black boxes...
- + Intent may be to disturb...
- + An 'old' scandal continues to make the news...
- + Identifying sexual assault victims...
- + Protecting the innocent...
- + Off the mark...
- + Sweeping changes are planned for Inquirer...
- + Keep an open mind on Trib's new owner...
- + Back to dislike for the media -- and that's OK...
- + The naming of victims is a sensitive issue at paper...
- + Newspaper look strange? Here's why we changed...
- + An awkward retreat by the media...
- + Is the press guilty of treason?...
- + Control...
- + Better leak than never ...
- + Triathlon insert blurred the line between news and advertisi...
- + When freedom, 'security' collide ...
- + LeBron stories called exploitive...
September 2002 (View complete archive page)
- + Protecting the public's right to know...
- + Holy controversy, Batman! Readers take us to task...
- + Readers: Don't name rape victims without their OK ...
- + Heresy and faith...
- + Ritual photo: Grotesque or appropriate?...
- + Attention to detail pays dividend...
- + Getting the rest of the story...
- + Journalism's thorny dilemmas ...
- + Sex abuse estimate exemplifies pitfalls in use of statistics...
- + Shuffling sections around depends on production demands...
- + A trust bestowed, a trust betrayed...
- + Ridiculous...
- + News pictures, though disturbing, help tell important storie...
- + Sept. 11 and media responsbility...
- + The anxious anniversary: remembering the event that no one c...
- + The shape of news since Sept. 11...
- + Making a judgment call, reader alert...
- + In the end...
- + Changing times...
- + The Dividing Line Between News, Opinion...
- + Looking back, looking forward...
- + Japanese-American story draws charges of racism...
- + The hand of God...
- + Ad bites...
October 2002 (View complete archive page)
- + The media and the D.C. sniper story...
- + It's a newspaper's duty to offer endorsements...
- + Alarmist headline from sniper wasn't necessary...
- + Newspaper's 'A' section gets an 'F' from readers...
- + No Ernie Pyles in war on terror...
- + Criticizing the antiwar coverage...
- + Pics and strips...
- + Community may help edit what a newspaper reports ...
- + No inconsistency in recent cases...
- + Some more ethical questions ...
- + A series that angered and enlightened...
- + Much research, thought go into endorsements...
- + Some Tribune readers received an accidental head start...
- + Viewing the world's politics from down in the Boondocks...
- + NPR's useful Middle East series vs. the lack of anti-war cov...
- + Some quarrel with election coverage...
- + Ethics: Personal & Professional ...
- + T-U's handling of ghost article haunts local group...
- + Identify victims of rape? When?...
- + Despite photo gaffe, newspaper does give a fig about accurac...
- + Misplaced Astrology Column...
- + Journalists take blond joke seriously...
- + Sometimes, the media pack needs to know when to show some re...
- + Paper's role in political season...
- + Turn of a phrase is bereft of praise in its final phase ...
- + Tourism coverage: Sentinel is listening...
- + Revisiting grim part of Fort Worth's past...
- + Staggering History Lesson...
- + Trib's new puzzle placements can be a riddle...
- + Let's give medical stories a checkup...
- + How coverage of Cobb controversy evolved ...
November 2002 (View complete archive page)
- + Each Day's Paper Starts From Scratch; Paper Strives for Bala...
- + Some readers outraged by heading for suicide bombers...
- + In the blizzard of holiday events...
- + Coverage of West Bank hostilities leaves some readers seeing...
- + Religious affiliation inescapable part of many Utah stories...
- + Prejudice over time and space ...
- + Readers seek sensitivity on Claus Santa headline scared kids...
- + Credibility demands journalists avoid even appearance of bia...
- + Confusing readers with election stats...
- + A brief history of Star goofs, gaffes and grovels...
- + A coracle in a choppy sea ...
- + T-U endorsements are less mysterious than perceived...
- + Post and Courier editorial staff sticks with endorsement for...
- + Ads on bags may wrap up election but not Sentinel's support...
- + Winning endorsements, losing votes ...
- + Anonymous Sources, Bad Information...
- + Political flier may have skirted campaign rules...
- + It's About Time: Have NPR Reports Become Too Short?...
- + Playing down the anti-war protests...
- + Reporting suicide ...
- + Decision on timing of informant story tests newsroom ethics...
- + Listening to a Different Drummer ...
- + Political endorsements get people talking...
December 2002 (View complete archive page)
- + Turning a rumor into news...
- + Self-serving promotional ads hardly deserve the lofty compan...
- + Her Christmas list is simply perfect...
- + Extra sensitivity needed in news stories about death...
- + For just a few...
- + It's your turn to be the editor ...
- + Nitpicker's Quiz: A Christmas edition...
- + Gay-Lesbian Coverage Hasn't Been Negative -- But It Hasn't B...
- + Lott controversy makes some reporters pause -- except one...
- + The offensive art of secrets and lies...
- + Why newspapers print opposing views...
- + The Market...
- + Why Little Creek ''moved'' to Virginia Beach...
- + Let's keep a tight rein on stereotypes...
- + What Gets Covered in Sports Is Rarely a Slam Dunk...
- + 'Tis the season... for journalists to be wary...
- + Why many stories are colorblind...
- + Columnists state their views subject to review...
- + Without a free press, we all lose...
- + Like It or Not, Copy Editors Are Forced to Use Four-Letter W...
- + 'The Sopranos' and NPR authors: Too much of a good thing?...
- + Some ask if advertisers or editorial views influence news co...
- + Contradictory health studies: Read 'em with a grain of salt...
January 2003 (View complete archive page)
- + Siblings kiss, and readers react...
- + Peace marchers also protest an error...
- + What's in a label? Ask that pointy-headed liberal...
- + Sizing up demonstrations in determining the news ...
- + That's entertainment?...
- + Getting it right means admitting we were wrong...
- + News Media Going Overboard on Purported Human Cloning...
- + A week of journalistic minefields at NPR...
- + It's the readers' turn to speak out...
- + Times-Union tries hard to avoid conflicts of interest...
- + Errors we hate -- and correct ...
- + What Happened To TV Week?...
- + Stakes Are High When People Are Identified in the News...
- + Missing woman headline misses point...
- + Note to NPR editors: Fight clichs like the plague!...
- + Ethics policy says no freebies for Star staffers...
- + Weighty or trivial, all errors get serious attention...
- + When The C-J fights 'the law' ...
- + Correction and perfection...
- + Englehart's Provocative Views...
- + Correction and perfection...
- + ake medical stories with dose of skepticism...
- + Media Jumped on Cloned Baby Coverage Because of Timing, Not ...
- + The error of our ways...
- + Mental health series brings issues to fore and refines repor...
- + Why did the newspaper ever make that mistake?...
- + When It Comes to Readers' Favorites, the Comics Are No Laug...
- + Cartoons, religion: Combustible...
- + Kobe Bryant rape case tests editors' ideals...
- + Fairness on a touchy abortion issue...
- + PSA air disaster-25 years later...
- + A book of answers, from aka to zoo...
- + When does it get to be too much?...
- + The Middle East in words and pictures...
- + Public can help keep newspaper on track ...
- + Readers question paper's handling of corrections...
- + No cheerleading on Iraq war coverage...
- + A singular moment...
- + Newspapers are about more than news...
February 2003 (View complete archive page)
- + Saving Grace, possibly ...
- + Six Free Press staffers sent to gulf ...
- + Counting protesters ...
- + After the boom...
- + Rape victim's PR tests news standard...
- + Accompanying the troops to war front...
- + Handle war news with care...
- + The goods on Goodyear...
- + War protests deserved bigger play than they got in the Star ...
- + Spooking, and finding, Hussein...
- + Journalists Not Immune to Tensions, Dangers of the Times...
- + Journalists train for war coverage...
- + Did press conference follow a script?...
- + When form letters are in bad form...
- + The face of reality ...
- + Fetus or baby?...
- + Our quest for trust a Sisyphean task...
- + There's room for improvement with reporting of lottery numbe...
- + For some, story on TV kissing crossed the line...
- + Handing 16 minutes of air time to a terrorist...
- + If Tribune Didn't Run Ads, You Would Be Paying a Lot More...
- + Augusta National coverage: News or crusade?...
- + Why shuttle disaster was big news...
- + Paper corrections dipped in '02...
- + King James focus should be court...
- + News between a whisper, a shout...
- + After the polite mourning, the tougher questions about Colum...
- + Whose comments are they?...
- + Story misses a chance to educate...
- + The Simplest Errors in Newspaper Are the Ones That Irritate ...
- + Balancing safety, thirst for news in Navy ship stories...
- + Name of the game up to sports teams...
- + Columbia: memories of a fallen star ...
- + Readers perplexed by decision on columnists...
- + Scary sleep tale sent skeptic to his files...
- + Tracking errors should lead to reducing them...
March 2003 (View complete archive page)
- + Images of POWs--and questions...
- + War photos at heart of debate ...
- + War of information...
- + Photos of dead and POWs pose thorny questions...
- + Headlines on the war can hit a sour note with readers ...
- + Close-up and vivid reporting ...
- + Few shades of gray in complaints about war coverage...
- + The mystery reporter covering another war...
- + Photos of dead and POWS pose thorny questions ...
- + Photo of strip-search drew flak from readers...
- + Publishing POW's pictures ...
- + A Clearer Picture Of The War...
- + Worth a thousand words...
- + Deciding whether to publish graphic war photos complicated t...
- + Readers call use of Iraqi photo 'unpatriotic'...
- + Coverage of War Brings Tough Decisions on Domestic Events, G...
- + Youth crime law will stifle news...
- + Is the paper being 'patriotic'?...
- + Newspapers have time to let stories develop ...
- + When Will NPR return to non-war coverage?...
- + War news challenges readers...
- + Trump at the front...
- + War unfolds live on TV...
- + News Media Walk a Fine Line in Covering Elizabeth Smart Case...
- + Inviting the media along to cover the war...
- + A higher standard on suggestive ads...
- + The petroleum disappeared...
- + The disturbing sounds of silence ...
- + Newspaper portrays alcohol as a reflection of community ...
- + Fairness guiding Zaffino coverage...
- + Connecting the Blips ...
- + Reporters covering a coming war will be in on the action as ...
- + Journalists will cover war from inside...
- + Are Some Ideas Too Uncomfortable for NPR?...
- + The temperature in Irkutsk is......
- + Road to war...
- + Feature obits of 'just folks' touch hearts ...
- + Lives and impartiality on the line during war...
- + A Soldier's Daughter ...
- + The Story Behind The Pictures...
- + Newspaper had duty to report circumstances of coach's death ...
- + Printing "buddysex" wasn't reckless choice...
- + Coverage of flag issue should avoid fringes ...
- + Crude Language Rarely Finds a Place in the Newspaper...
- + When comic strips aren't always ha-ha, hee-hee...
- + Persian Gulf memories: 5,000 images of war ...
- + Lifting cloud cover" from Weather page"...
- + Errors that live forever...
- + Reports from the embedded...
- + Wiretaps and privilege...
- + Readers want more news, from local to global...
- + Chipping away once again on that tip of the iceberg ...
- + A duty to report pros, cons of war...
- + Covering a big story ...
- + The Buzz On Media Ownership...
- + Independent Decision-Making Vital to a Newspaper...
- + Reality checks needed during war...
April 2003 (View complete archive page)
- + Dilemmas for editors in times of war...
- + Too many mistakes...
- + Total Objectivity Hard for a Journalist, But Fairness Is Wit...
- + Privacy and SARS coverage...
- + Picturing the war too clearly?...
- + After the war...
- + Journalists get taste of life on the front...
- + T-D readers stayed in step alongside the war reporter ...
- + Photo horrifies, disgusts readers...
- + Reporting Private Lynch ...
- + Photos, Death Tolls, Protests Coverage of Concern to Readers...
- + New comic strip draws various reactions...
- + One hundred days...
- + Of Course War Is Ugly...
- + The Iraq war in pictures: Just, put on a happy face! ...
- + The outcome of 'embedding' reporters valid...
- + Cartoonists Are an Independent Lot as 'Boondocks' Proves...
- + War photos we print based on news, not bias...
- + NPR News in Iraq: Getting the Full Story?...
- + Photos and newspaper credibility...
- + Does protest belong on the comics pages?...
- + Cruelties of War...
- + Tourism feedback: An effort to be fair...
- + War photos turn some readers off...
- + War coverage stirs ire; editors seek balance...
- + Immediacy of War Coverage Can Evolve Into a Form of Propagan...
- + Should Journalists Speak Out in Times of War?...
May 2003 (View complete archive page)
- + Eagle-Eyed Readers Take Up the Challenge as Grammar Guards...
- + When they bend truth, journalists become news...
- + A system failure...
- + Errors that go unchallenged...
- + Corrections process narrows gap with readers ...
- + Newspaper takes critical look inside...
- + Why newspapers rely on news services...
- + Deformation of Letters to the Editor...
- + The Times' pain is every journalist's pain...
- + Deformation of Letters to the Editor...
- + According to Someone ...
- + Press depends on error alerts...
- + Sometimes We Make Errors: If You See One, Let Us Know...
- + Did The Times' Diversity Program Fail Jayson Blair?...
- + The Times needed an ombudsman...
- + A newspaper's defenses against fraud...
- + The sad tale of Jayson Blair...
- + Newspaper takes heat over bobblehead doll graphics...
- + Self-examination follows on news of NYT scandal...
- + Good Times, Bad Times ...
- + Avoiding the debacle that sullied The Times...
- + Lessons a plenty in the New York Times scandal...
- + A commitment to integrity here...
- + Too bad Times didn't have an ombudsman...
- + A Wake-Up Call For Journalists...
- + Poisoning the archival wells...
- + Ryan's penance...
- + Times' editors share blame in reporter scandal ...
- + Star to 'fess up' faster in case of any plagiarism...
- + Lying Times reporter harms credibility of all...
- + Here's Your Chance to Chide The Trib on Spelling and Grammar...
- + Here's your chance to chide the Tribune on grammar and spell...
- + A brief memorandum to the publisher...
- + 'Post' ran few fraudulent stories...
- + Preventing Plagiarism: What Does A Newsroom Need To Do?...
- + The disciplines of journalism...
- + Why mix religion and journalism?...
- + Chico and Cuba...
- + Credibility's value is crucial for journalists ...
- + A newsroom has its own rhythms, own management style...
- + The aftermath of a news story gone dormant...
- + An inside look at the Free Press ...
- + SARS and the media's herd mentality...
- + Our pneumonia...
- + Newspaper endorsements raise questions from readers...
- + Supporting Troops, Assessing Coverage ...
- + Whole view of war, one scene at a time...
- + Even wounded, fighter in Iraq posed a threat...
- + Homefront Confidential ...
- + Reporting allegations of abuse by Tacoma chief was justified...
- + An spology from the staff for the sad ethics debacle ...
- + An Apology From the Staff for the Sad Ethics Debacle...
June 2003 (View complete archive page)
- + The role of the headline--and the story...
- + I intend to report on how they put out the Bee...
- + A Long, and Incomplete, Correction ...
- + Probing the political countours of the opinion pages ...
- + Reports of wartime casualties can vary, and be distracting f...
- + The gunshot and the photograph...
- + Some readers see an agenda...
- + New era on errors...
- + Reader had a point about a story seeming like opinion...
- + Flippant approach to an animal's suffering brings reader com...
- + Unintended racial message in a comic...
- + Reporting on Ourselves: Can NPR Be Fair About... NPR?...
- + Crucial journalism repairs trust ...
- + News today, unnamed tomorrow ...
- + Literary life preserver...
- + Who paid for the media in Iraq?...
- + New York Times fraud spurs wide-ranging look at papers...
- + Yes, the cartoon crossed the line...
- + New York Times fraud spurs wide-ranging look at papers...
- + A Pioneering Journalist...
- + We asked for it -- we got it...
- + The Next Casualty?...
- + Reporting Private Lynch ...
- + Curtain Should Have Been Dropped on Punk Puppet Show Story ...
- + Curtain Should Have Been Dropped on Punk Puppet Show Story...
- + Readers critique new Business section...
- + Post-Blair tempest...
- + Times' shame casts cloud over industry...
- + As tenure ends, a reflection on lessons learned ...
- + Stories That Interpret Events Should Be Clearly Labeled 'Ana...
- + Views on right, wrong in covering the Iraqi war...
- + Readers discuss Times debacle...
- + Stillborn Scoop...
- + Giving credit where credit is due...
- + Considering the Source ...
- + Sometimes watchdogs need watching, too...
- + When a cartoon offends readers...
- + Mum's the word on issue close to media's heart...
- + The story behind the Lynch story...
- + Plagiarism Revisited...
July 2003 (View complete archive page)
- + How far is too far? Recording gruesome photos on news pages...
- + Journalists' opinions: The eunuch in the harem?...
- + Readers irked by story, ask retraction...
- + Dropping the ball on newspaper 'advertorial'...
- + Views vary on what Iraqi action should be termed...
- + Weighing decision to print photos of dead bodies...
- + Plagiarism remains a dirty word for newspapers...
- + Suit, hat, jewel, Rolls Royce...
- + Racist Cartoon Insulted Community...
- + Different people,same complaint: The news is biased...
- + Wrinkles in TV Week section ruffle readers' expectations...
- + Despite low pay, journalists more content...
- + A whole lot of soul-searching and self-examination going on...
- + On the use of visuals during live briefings ...
- + The games newspapers shouldn't play ...
- + The empty room...
- + Newspaper to poll story sources for goals of accuracy, fairn...
- + Should Bee run comics that offend some readers?...
- + Readers remember the good ol' Tribune -- that never was...
- + Keeping readers' trust is first step for journalists...
- + Plugging the Holes ...
- + It's time for reporters to get somewhere over the Rainbow...
- + Pitch at Jays: High and wide...
August 2003 (View complete archive page)
- + Theory and Practice...
- + Change is inevitable, especially in the paper...
- + Stay tuned: TV listings will give a sharper picture...
- + How hot was France's heat wave?...
- + Stories without life...
- + Counting The Casualties...
- + Newspapers shy from covering rape in meaningful way ...
- + Militant or terrorist: Judging the news...
- + Zero tolerance at The Bee for ethics transgressions...
- + Don't expect children to thrive on 'Grocery Guru' recipes...
- + Don't expect kids to thrive on 'Grocery Guru' recipes ...
- + His name puts headline writers in a bind...
- + Doubts hanging in the air...
- + The right tone or a common mistake?...
- + Respecting readers' sensibilities is a matter of good taste...
- + Times answers readers' call for accountability ...
- + Hits and misses...
- + Degrees of separation heat up the surf...
- + Questions and Answers on rape coverage ...
- + Feature story on musician's death spurs ethics queries ...
- + Want less local news on the front page? Don't hold your brea...
- + Addition and long division ...
- + Are the media fair in their coverage of Catholicism?...
- + New York Times adds an ombudsman...
- + A bad place for Hussein's death photos?...
- + Death photos prompt decisions, opinions...
- + Purges at The New York Times and us...
- + All criticism is fit to print...
- + T-D doesn't edit comics . . . Oh, wait - change that line...
- + Management style, newspaper culture are keys to quality ...
September 2003 (View complete archive page)
- + Fraud beyond the facts...
- + Front-page news includes stories of humanity ...
- + When judging news, consensus is hard to find...
- + Music review can be brutal in its honesty...
- + Accuracy, especially with names, is crucial to credibility...
- + Credibility hit: Ad was recycled feature...
- + Do Ombudsmen Make a Difference? ...
- + Readers don't always agree with editors' choices for front p...
- + The Star takes its funny pages seriously...
- + Reporting accurately while minimizing harm...
- + Private details and public figures make for tough decisions ...
- + Sleeping with the enemy or seeking the 'Who'?...
- + The Language of Terrorism ...
- + Are Bee's standards for Web lower than for print?...
- + Reporters should get off the seat, head out on the beat...
- + Private details and public figures make for tough decisions...
- + 'Times' got ombudsman religion...
- + For Sikhs, not a laughing matter...
- + Paper drops ball on coverage of child protection ...
- + 'Ticked Off!' is print equivalent of talk radio...
- + 'Doonesbury' omission gets mixed reviews...
- + Teachers provide a lesson in how not to communicate...
- + The Oregonian may be neglecting other children like Ashley...
- + Two years on, America still has a long way to go...
- + Who should wear the 'terrorist' label?...
- + Another Time...
- + Share your thoughts on using victims' names ...
- + M-word brings rerun strip of 'Doonesbury'...
- + Yes, we do have standards around here...
- + Comic strip raises issues beyond laughs...
- + Once again 'Doonesbury' comic fuels a controversy ...
- + Compelling local stories are the stuff of front-page news ...
- + Bar-hopping features called trashy, sleazy...
October 2003 (View complete archive page)
- + Stories about violence...
- + Farewell to some former favorites: Comics pages are changing...
- + Decoy...
- + Naming names in news stories a matter of judgment...
- + Free, fast, painless step opens Web site...
- + Coverage of Iraq leaves readers wanting more...
- + Media bias depends on lens...
- + When media 'vultures' feel vulnerable...
- + Private rules spell trouble for journalists ...
- + Cop acquitted but still can't be named...
- + A murder trial and its upsetting details...
- + Lapse of memory...
- + Health events deserve better coverage...
- + What would you have done with this leak?...
- + Papers seek to reconnect with 'Real Life, Real News'...
November 2003 (View complete archive page)
- + Care needed in naming juvenile suspects...
- + Readers criticize border rape coverage...
- + Opinion and news...
- + Comics and Crypto fans are a loyal, outspoken bunch...
- + Cleaning up details from the fires...
- + Editors learn from readers' rich discussion...
- + Broken bridge...
- + Bridge players call Trib's bluff, win back beloved column...
- + Much remains to report about the fires...
- + Internet tale started with misleading headline...
- + That's how life is (not)...
- + Toerr is human, to correct is newspaper's duty...
- + Here's a chance for readers to try on the editors' hats...
- + Disaster stories by the millions...
- + Obscurity in the media...
- + If you know what's happening in your world, thank a journal...
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June 2004 (View complete archive page)
- + How the 'liberal' media treated Clinton...
- + 'Rumors' of war...
- + Readers' passion is key to pursuit of improvement...
- + Reporting methods...
- + Hard to get a handle on progress in Iraq...
- + No mistake should be small to a newspaper...
- + Getting it right and wrong ...
- + Positive approach to school series comes at a cost...
- + An electrician from the Ukrainian town of Lutsk...
- + The bothersome ad ...
- + Newspapers, Around the World and in Brazil ...
July 2004 (View complete archive page)
- + What our readers would have done...
- + Editorial cartoon on abuse scandal angers Catholics...
- + The long crossing ...
- + Storytelling provides variety to articles...
- + Stepping right on the banana peel...
- + Illuminating injustice...
- + It wasn't journalism that killed lawyer...
- + Positives of newspapers are too often overlooked...
- + Faster corrections ...
- + Political coverage poses a challenge for the press...
- + The press, male gender...
- + Internal contradictions on NPR?...
- + Bringing government into the open...
- + Use and abuse of polling...
- + When the reviewer becomes the reviewed...
- + Campaign coverage is a complex creature...
August 2004 (View complete archive page)
- + Personal marriage saga left many readers puzzled...
- + Street people...
- + Wounds of Vietnam never far from surface...
- + Reporting unprovable allegations in an election year...
- + The Ibsen Pinheiro case...
- + Sentinel employees met surly Charley with dogged determinati...
- + And now, for a little journalistic heresy...
- + Governments and journalists ...
- + Make that Obama not Osama!...
- + Readers views on T-U election coverage are all over the boar...
- + The Futile Search for The Bee's Hidden Agenda...
- + Combating Confusion...
- + Majority much more in the mix...
- + Buyer's Edge has limits; why not lingerie ads?...
- + Terrorists, extremists and radicals ...
- + Tough or unfair on Kerry?...
- + Hidden agendas?...
- + With TV shunning convention coverage, newspaper fills the vo...
- + Hard times ...
September 2004 (View complete archive page)
- + Deciding what makes the front page...
- + Down in 'The Boondocks': A case of editorial overkill?...
- + Self-inflicted wounds...
- + Folha's mistakes ...
- + Partisanship, CBS fiasco erode readers' trust ...
- + Deciding how to play the news...
- + A good story ...
- + Networks should consider having their own debates...
- + Forgeries, follow-ups and fairness...
- + Equal looks at military service...
- + Again, a lack of balance ...
- + ''Last line of defense'' has thankless job...
- + What we, and the audience, can learn about journalism...
- + Decision to run Russia photo not made lightly ...
- + School-siege photo tells of tragedy beyond words...
- + Why were the GOP protesters news?...
- + Maybe tip sheets from this horse race really aren't news...
- + Keeping track of wintry weather predictions...
- + More about street people ...
October 2004 (View complete archive page)
- + The campaign-coverage balance sheet: adding up the newspaper...
- + Media in middle as decision day approaches...
- + Endorsement time: Who decides for the Globe?...
- + The new Herzog case ...
- + Citing religion in the voters guide...
- + Not all in media have been missing in action...
- + Bias: Is there anything left to discuss?...
- + Is balancing an act?...
- + Eyewitness...
- + Exit polling...
- + Voters can't get enough information...
- + Competition alive and kicking in newsrooms...
- + Spin is not in; look for election issues, voices...
- + Who will monitor television?...
- + The 'innumerates' among us...
- + A review of electoral coverage...
- + Storms, Iraq and the barbershop...
- + And for president, the Pilot supports......
November 2004 (View complete archive page)
- + Illegal activity, fairness concerns lay behind tale of heroi...
- + Echoes of 64...
- + Can we dispel this urban myth?...
- + Helping guide readers to the news...
- + Red light...
- + Technically speaking, is it a 'fetus' or is it an 'unborn ch...
- + The inappropriate announcement...
- + Achieving balance on the op-ed page...
- + What happened to the youth vote?...
- + Journalists truly care, so don't write us off...
- + Putting sports news on the front page...
- + Hearing from the talking leaves...
- + Seeing red, or maybe not...
- + Firestorm over election . . . coverage?...
- + Election and campaign held lessons in liberalism for news me...
- + The press under pressure...
- + The printing of slang obscenities...
December 2004 (View complete archive page)
January 2005 (View complete archive page)
- + It's not always just about complaints...
- + Bee errs in not putting reckless behavior in context...
- + Leverage and the Metro deal...
- + Picking up pieces after charges are dropped...
- + A powerful tale unravels...
- + Same-sex marriage coverage stops short...
- + 2004 scorecard: Fewer errors, but slower to correct...
- + Rotten journalism costs everyone...
- + Babin cartoon draws fire over 'sacred' images...
- + Rewards of a Sunday afternoon...
- + The e-mail images too good to be real...
- + 2004 was a better year for Globe accuracy...
- + No picture tells the truth; the best do better than that...
- + Aftershocks from Asia...
- + Soccer, So Paulo and Lula ...
- + `Boondocks' pushes comic boundaries...
- + Constructive criticism wanted...
- + Tsanamis' devastation warrants rethinking journalistic pract...
- + Court leaves public out of earshot...
- + Fixing 'the essential newspaper'...
- + It's the job of journalists to put events in perspective...
February 2005 (View complete archive page)
- + Digital TV: More channels, more expensive for the viewer...
- + In the hands of the police...
- + Here is a failed model...
- + Bloggers challenge traditional media...
- + Ossie Davis deserved front-page treatment...
- + We must choose our words carefully...
- + The foretold death of the girl Caiu...
- + What it's like behind the scenes...
- + Readers give The Courant the business over stock listings...
- + Take aim? Readers find few flaws...
- + This news calls for caution...
- + Do too many listener complaints turn off NPR?...
- + In the eye of the beholder...
- + Private citizens who get into the news...
- + Grab a Sentinel Tuesday and tell me . . ....
March 2005 (View complete archive page)
- + Faux news threatens media credibility...
- + Paulo Coelho three times ...
- + Thinking out a new relationship...
- + America's culture of guns...
- + Ministerial reform...
- + Beware half-baked journalism...
- + Family's call on photo of gun victim...
- + Slayings that gripped all of America...
- + Experts, gender and reporting on the powerful...
- + The future of big media...
- + Lively news coverage not meant to offend...
- + The pictures of Chico...
- + True count of Iraqi war casualties not easy to get...
- + Press freedoms come with big responsibilities...
- + Credibility of papers assessed...
- + Newspapers challenged by retail revolution...
- + Taxing columnist-reporter impartiality ...
April 2005 (View complete archive page)
- + You taught me a lot...
- + FAIR or unfair game?...
- + The press in the Grafite matter ...
- + Is the paper good compost?...
- + The unseen hands that shape the paper ...
- + The Hundred Days War ...
- + Latest lapses find newspapers on defensive again...
- + Getting blogged down in the news...
- + Simple fact-checking saves newspapers a lot of grief...
- + Is the 1st Amendment being hijacked by the mainstream media?...
- + 'Communication is a moral act'...
- + Repeated contact led to Hirschfeld series...
- + Pope's death was a challenge for The Sun...
- + The pope's death ...
- + Newspapers should let readers be part of 'the conversation'...
- + Front page news?...
- + Folha's silence...
- + Images of tragedy: news or intrusions?...
May 2005 (View complete archive page)
- + Something to do in South America...
- + Legal affairs: In the name of the people...
- + Off to a shaky start...
- + Keeping perception from going down the tubes...
- + In crime coverage, does status matter?...
- + Coverage of British war documents hits hot button...
- + News columnists provoke reader objections...
- + Corruption in Latin America...
- + The Tribune's religion section is getting a faith-lift...
- + Your news might not be like mine...
- + Shedding light on Sun's gloomy circulation figures...
- + When comics are no laughing matter...
- + The hidden headline...
- + All the (high schools sports) news that fits, we print...
- + Spokane paper crosses line, but readers approve...
- + A positive solution to stamp out bias...
- + Internet and software make plagiarism easier to catch...
- + So near, so far away...
- + When is the ''best'' photo the wrong one?...
- + Advice rolls in to improve Sentinel...
June 2005 (View complete archive page)
- + The Hummel case...
- + Celebrating the marvel of journalism...
- + Far-off Afghanistan through a local lens...
- + History as news...
- + ''Deep Throat'' sparks interest in anonymous sources...
- + Readers should be told reason if unnamed source is used...
- + The press at risk...
- + The payment scandal ...
- + Readers' confidence...
July 2005 (View complete archive page)
- + Faith and hopes for coverage...
- + Anonymous Sources...
- + Newspapers can't be timid when covering war...
- + Good words with objectionable connotations...
- + The crisis that doesnt end...
- + Report on port security flaws served public interest...
- + Operation Narcissism...
- + After Attack, Blog Brought London To Life...
- + Scrutinizing Bush's record...
- + Putting ESPN under a microscope...
- + Not just reporters will pay the price...
- + Eyes on Folha...
- + Photos, like life, sometimes shock...
- + A place for ideas...
August 2005 (View complete archive page)
- + Some thoughtful, some knee-jerk responses to NPR...
- + Choosing the youth sports we cover ...
- + From Tuskegee Airmen, lessons of courage, injustice...
- + Miss Victoria...
- + Coverage of Georgia unit shows war's personal side ...
- + When tragedy strikes, focus is on human toll...
- + Sad tale raises questions about papers and children...
- + The art of good headline writing ...
- + What if it's a lie? ...
- + The stories that touch the heart...
- + Racial reference in shooting story both imprecise and too sw...
- + Military writer explains coverage...
- + Gossip vs. balanced reporting...
- + Play given to the crisis...
- + Can Smith, new show live up to their hype?...
- + Be consistent in identifying 'terrorists' ...
- + The Muse...
- + Laughter in a house of correction ...
September 2005 (View complete archive page)
- + How national" Is NPR?"...
- + The news in black and white...
- + Marilena Chaui's letter...
- + Sheehan rouses readers...
- + NASCAR under the yellow flag, but it will be back...
- + Anniversary of 9/11 deserved better...
- + Staffers face Katrina's aftermath head-on...
- + The invitation...
- + TV4 is going to start using loud ads now...
- + Covering New Orleans: The decade before the storm...
- + 'Refugee' vs. 'evacuee': The power of a single word...
- + Effects of Katrina...
- + First came storm, then the fury...
- + Rich context a key to readers' trust, understanding...
- + Refugees, evacuees, victims or survivors?...
- + A pre-Katrina view of August...
- + Another Read...
- + Shifting hurricane story meant slow initial coverage...
- + Times-Picayune served its city well...
- + Readers object to photo of dead man; editors offer a defense...
- + Room to improve on this most important of stories...
October 2005 (View complete archive page)
- + When a correction only compounds the problem...
- + On 2,000th death, readers' reactions vary...
- + Reporting a murder case ...
- + When the 'color' of a city changes...
- + The Miller mess: Lingering issues among the answers...
- + Csar's wife...
- + About Judith Miller's notes...
- + Seeing and believing in China ...
- + Staged news, reported as such...
- + Blogs challenge newspaper standards...
- + The Knot in the press...
- + Plagiarism: An issue of trust...
- + Drawing stronger line between reporting, commentary...
- + Deciding coverage of charitable events ...
- + A parting thought on Iraq, again...
- + Times-Picayune unites scattered community...
- + Anonymity, agendas stir trouble for media ...
- + The press'weapons...
- + Citizenship vs. the Tribune's Code of Editorial Principles...
- + Selecting letters to the editor: More art than science...
- + Reporters at center of an accuracy storm...
- + A new step...
November 2005 (View complete archive page)
- + Invisible Indians...
- + The hidden source ...
- + Illuminating local lives in each day's obits...
- + Readers weigh in about The Bee's self-criticism...
- + Immigrant bill bias...
- + ''You don't understand anything''...
- + Approach polls with caution...
- + 'Hello, Mom? What makes a source reliable?'...
- + A premature obituary for newspapers ...
- + Shedding light on policy of altering photos...
- + A stormy week for readers, Sun...
- + ID'ing juveniles in crime stories a murky area...
- + Misplaced priorities on the front page...
- + Candidates' religion? No need to know...
- + Dilemma known only by name...
- + Seemingly small but important things...
- + The case about Cuba ...
- + Doing right by readers as times get tougher...
December 2005 (View complete archive page)
- + The whole story on military recruiting?...
- + The media owe answers ...
- + 10 examples will test your editing skills...
- + We've got your number: Now, it's sudoku every day...
- + A story that merits page one...
- + Involve parents, but teach kids...
- + In good Portuguese...
- + Public had right to know details of Vernon Jones case...
- + Homer math catches up with the news...
- + Words matter when stature is at stake...
- + Vanishing ink: Cartoonists fade...
- + The two Washington Posts...
- + I came, I saw, I came back...
- + Open door...
- + Why not take ''man'' out of titles?...
- + The end of Sinapse...
- + A little about me, a lot about ''breaking the silence''...
January 2006 (View complete archive page)
- + The story behind Angel's story...
- + Readers see paper from other side...
- + The Bee journeys further into online news universe...
- + On BGE rates, the big picture and the small...
- + Newspaper needs to improve coverage of Minnesota Somalis...
- + Durham sees red over crime...
- + Editing of Nagin story raised credibility questions...
- + The firestorm over my column...
- + Do we really need to give any space to steamy topics?...
- + Wilmington, 1898: Revisiting the riot...
- + Journalists relish chance to show troops' human side ...
- + Stopping the presses is no easy matter ...
- + Focusing on flooding pays off for Bee and readers...
- + New Years's in St. Martin...
- + Here, in silence, are eight more...
- + Coretta Scott King's personal side got little attention...
- + We try to get it right so we don't get it wrong...
- + The state of journalism, 2006 ...
- + A sad ending for beloved feature...
- + The attentive reader...
February 2006 (View complete archive page)
- + Why requests to alter the archive are resisted ...
- + That tricky language we call our own ...
- + Local coverage: What readers say...
- + Creation of a controversy ...
- + Red Cross not part of GAO fraud findings...
- + Getting serious about global warming...
- + Cartoons, published and not, provoke Bee readers...
- + Articles focus serious scrutiny on four officials...
- + In Haiti...
- + Muhammad cartoons: Strong listener response...
- + Why not print offending cartoons? ...
- + The clamor for tolerance...
- + Star blurs line between advertising and news...
- + Photo mix-up leads to new accuracy step...
- + The ombudsman's mailbag...
- + Standards violated, review finds...
- + News judgment elicits a mixed reaction...
- + Clash over cartoons not funny...
- + Each and every one of us is an expert on TV but only on our...
- + Describing the debate is more important than copying...
March 2006 (View complete archive page)
- + No laughing matter...
- + The Post and the whole picture in Iraq...
- + Reading into Twain what isn't there...
- + Why most see bias in media...
- + Thanks to all for sharing your wisdom...
- + Presidential coverage: Local reporting vs. NPR...
- + The quest for an ethical code in Argentina ...
- + Good deal for North Carolina journalism?...
- + Mohomet returns...
- + Seeking balance between hard news, features...
- + Coming soon to viewers like you: The Armenian Genocide...
- + The ethics project...
- + The war in the cities...
- + The brier patch of sex crimes...
- + Sometimes the best answer is a letter...
- + Don't lose sight of the value of access...
- + Nothing to fear but fear itself...
- + Movin' on: The circle closes...
- + Free breakfast ...
- + ID crime suspects by race? The answer isn't easy...
- + Ports and politics: A minor story grows explosive...
- + Misspellings spell ouch -- in photos, too...
April 2006 (View complete archive page)
- + Persecution by the media...
- + Pulling back from diversity?...
- + Hot, interactive, bizarre news engages online readers...
- + Another look at rules for reporting suicide ...
- + Baltimore becomes a two-newspaper town once again...
- + Secret-keepers vs. late snoop Jack Anderson...
- + Two strikes...
- + The many truths about September 11th...
- + Documenting and Debating a 'Genocide'...
- + Whatever happened to ...?...
- + Article, reactions run gamut...
- + More questions about the lacrosse story...
- + Young people haven't given up on newspapers...
- + Web changes good for both online, paper readers...
- + Sudden Interest...
- + To single out a student, or not ...
- + The rejection of a robust review too close to home ...
- + The congressional investigation and the press ...
- + Editors had reasons for picking bobcat photo...
- + Big news, especially local, sells ...
- + The quest for fair election coverage...
- + Hard game...
- + From page numbers to political advertising...
- + Senator's home area falls within lines of immigration covera...
May 2006 (View complete archive page)
- + Ridding the paper of carelessness...
- + Wedding planner story - rite or wrong?...
- + Front page photo of injured horse tells story, but stirs com...
- + The graphic makeover...
- + Vulgarity wearies readers...
- + ESPN needs more journalism, less sensationalism...
- + An ombudsman's view from Brazil...
- + Adult-oriented service ads draw reader's consternation...
- + The squeeze is on for reporters asked to reveal sources...
- + A time-saving alternative for readers?...
- + The war in So Paulo ...
- + Anglos once were the immigrants...
- + Parenting columnist's recycled work not acceptable...
- + Guilt by Association: The NPR-FOX Connection...
- + Credibility and transparency ...
- + Newspapers move toward era of paperless news...
- + How to describe city's killings...
- + You win: 'alphaobits' bite the dust...
- + The Ombudsmen...
- + A different way to look at rallies...
June 2006 (View complete archive page)
- + When our reach exceeds our grasp of the language...
- + When dead speak, Bee readers are quick to react...
- + The senator and the editorial page...
- + Haste...
- + Exaggerations in the World Cup ...
- + Readers love, loathe Coulter...
- + A difficult news story well told...
- + Dear Listeners: Thanks and Farewell...
- + 'There's Something About Mary'...
- + Has the Iraq war disappeared from the front page?...
- + Readers could have done without photo of dead terrorist...
- + Remembering D-Day...
- + War zone reports raise questions on journalists' roles...
- + Feeding a universal hunger for information...
- + When a writer should be allowed a pseudonym....
- + Giving prominence to military deaths ...
- + For Tribune critic, film is an ongoing education...
- + Progress Toward Reducing Anonymity...
- + Was suspect description too racially sensitive?...
- + Rants, Raves and falsehoods...
- + Some gaps in coverage of city schools...
July 2006 (View complete archive page)
- + Weather is hot news with readers ...
- + Fair play? Readers question Israel-Lebanon coverage...
- + Hands in the congressional investigation...
- + Baja coverage inflames and excites ...
- + Broadening the scope of diversity coverage...
- + Touching story of transplants was not easy to report...
- + To quote and how to quote when president's words salty...
- + Challenges for Russia's press...
- + Gripes of wrath: Readers find fault with The Bee...
- + Coverage of Israel, Lebanon strives to maintain balance...
- + Eternal vigilance...
- + Second-guessing always a part of election coverage...
- + What made two murders distinct...
- + The lack of electoral debate ...
- + Ellison coverage tough, appropriate...
- + There's no collusion between news and editorials ...
- + Austin's status justified coverage of Dubai drug case...
- + When it's mea culpa time...
- + It's still Bombay in the E-N for now...
- + Affirmative action...
- + A way to hear the inside story of the Guardian ...
- + Getting the paper into the classroom ...
- + Profanity standards relaxed just slightly...
- + Coming soon to your home: Opinion...
- + Surveillance, security and the press...
- + The election has already begun...
- + Complaints: Puzzle grids, TV Week, newspaper ink...
August 2006 (View complete archive page)
- + E-N gaffe rightly irks...
- + Opinion and journalism...
- + Rush to judgment leaves principles, lives in the dust...
- + The press and the First Capital Command ...
- + No easy turns on this road...
- + Welcome to the world of blogs...
- + Making sure big story isn't missed ...
- + Conservative Commentator" Unmasked...
- + They're an affront, but sure, bring on high-profile ads...
- + Joe Can Run As Independent, But Democrat?...
- + A disservice...
- + News reports must speak with dispassionate voice...
- + Should papers change your way with words?...
- + Promises and promises...
- + Visuals shouldn't overshadow the top news story...
- + Staff aims editorials not only to comment, but to lead...
- + More on photos of dead kids...
September 2006 (View complete archive page)
- + Sorry, but some bad news for fans of 'Boondocks'...
- + Not for the sake of change...
- + 2 Sun staffers look behind story of Waverly killing...
- + Readers find little right with Iraq death reports...
- + Journalists' duty is to report, not to regulate...
- + The dossier and the press...
- + Helping the undecided voter decide...
- + When is anonymity truly important? ...
- + A tribute to a gentle, discerning reader...
- + The Power of a Point of View...
- + Interactive Web pages draw in high school sports fans...
- + The welcome glare of scrutiny...
- + Distilling the truth from available facts...
- + How The Plain Dealer decided to retell the 9/11 story...
- + The presidents gaffes...
- + A conservative Locke on the paper?...
- + Hamilton reflects on 9/11 study ...
- + Great stories ignite bonfires...
- + Newspapers, after all, are a business ...
- + When headlines go too far...
- + Sun's coverage of new school year mixed with politics...
- + No racism meant -- but good intentions not enough...
- + The Hotly Debated Territory of Page 1...
- + Foreign journalists envious of First Amendment...
- + Photo of ballplayer in tears prompts reader outcry...
October 2006 (View complete archive page)
- + A Daunting Challenge Awaits NPR Ombudsman...
- + A ruling in favour of freedom of expression ...
- + Readers tell us their opinions of flu, politics, bear storie...
- + Visually impaired can now listen to the newspaper...
- + Race and the Mission Beach assaults ...
- + Trudeau's Sandbox: blog for troops...
- + Selling sensitive photos puts taste to the test...
- + Is Lieberman The Story?...
- + Nerves about to explode...
- + Fallen U.S. soldiers are not forgotten...
- + The universal tendency for journalists to err ...
- + Time to post the political signage?...
- + Photographing the grief of the Amish...
- + Point me in the right direction...
- + Flight 1907...
- + Coverage reaches beyond CDC's scientific mission...
- + Irate readers not playing possum...
- + Rumor has it Internet has altered news that's fit to print...
- + Rumors of paper's demise greatly exaggerated...
- + A FAIR Analysis?...
- + Sun uses polls for a sophisticated job explaining races...
- + Where to report the terrorism report?...
- + What an election campaign!...
November 2006 (View complete archive page)
- + Outside ball ...
- + How The Sun got the story on Factor VII...
- + From haiku to panels, how readers can engage...
- + Sources of confusion...
- + A few words in memory of Anna Politkovskaya ...
- + Opinios and rigths...
- + Writing briefly but thoroughly is a tough task...
- + Can grammarians help us?...
- + A donation vs. bond-election neutrality...
- + Reporting deaths of 2 teens caught in tide of violence...
- + Can a writer unintentionally plagiarize?...
- + Child's accidental shooting deserved more attention...
- + It's still a man's world (in print) ...
- + Once bitten, twice shy ...
- + An opinion, right out there in front...
- + Shoe story a shame for all involved...
- + The necessary debate...
- + Restaurant reviews on the table...
- + What our readers are saying...
- + Housing market slumps; the messenger is blamed...
- + Omitting Kerry story sparks accusations...
- + The ombudsmans mailbag...
- + Gender gap, even in death...
- + The agony of dealing with a son's death...
December 2006 (View complete archive page)
- + Wikipedia is hardly authoritative on any subject...
- + Brown, Ford deaths test AJC's print, online ability...
- + How the Times-Union covers a Jaguars game...
- + Sun working to bring the news into Internet age...
- + Looking back, one year later...
- + Organized crime...
- + Some readers' comments can get personal -- and vicious...
- + The language used in coverage of the Ipswich murders ...
- + A farewell to a changing industry ...
- + Daily Tributes garner a mostly positive reception readers re...
- + Of nuts and bolts: A break from journalism's big questions...
- + Earning people's trust daily -- or not...
- + Keeping kids' names out of the paper...
- + Homework...
- + Paper's e-edition fun to surf and easy to read...
- + Police case...
- + Civil war? The Bee's readers have their say...
- + For brewers like you...
- + Taking sides in the semantic battle over 'civil war'...
- + Photo unfairly linked teen to dad's crimes...
- + Headlines and headlines ...
- + What if you called it 'civil war' and nobody noticed?...
- + For some, comics changes were tragic...
- + Thinking Past Paper And Ink...
- + A crucial need for care with words...
- + 'Athletes are human,' as photo of Vick's gesture shows...
January 2007 (View complete archive page)
- + Sometimes synonyms shouldn't be interchangeable...
- + What happens when you become part of the story...
- + Extra for all, beyond scale and scope of print...
- + When reporting the truth is a deadly pursuit...
- + Disaster strikes again...
- + The role of the ombudsman in a fast-changing media world ...
- + What makes a newspaper valuable? Readers know...
- + The subway tragedy ...
- + Right out in front...
- + Irked by What the Post didn't say...
- + This is the way it's supposed to work...
- + Changing circumstances governed decisions on IDs ...
- + Letter writers get their own blog...
- + Love and hate...
- + Was Pelosi's clothing really important news?...
- + Trib's bulldog edition brings back news tradition...
- + End of the year...
- + Ford eulogies are beacons to a more civil dialogue...
- + Edwards coverage is too much for some...
- + Complete business coverage not about cheerleading ...
- + Stellar scoops, features offset by slights, biases...
- + Insults Plague Online Boards...
February 2007 (View complete archive page)
- + Mayhem at breakfast as things fall apart ...
- + An unvarnished view of our nation's photo album ...
- + To be fair in political crossfire...
- + The decisions behind some recent Page One stories...
- + Newcomers witness evolving journalism ...
- + USMC and PBS, Semper Fi...
- + Brazil's suburbs ...
- + As complaints roll in, few readers like new TV book...
- + To get at the story behind the story, do the numbers...
- + AJC gears up to meet challenges of newspaper industry ...
- + How a medical story makes its way to the front page...
- + Priorities and priorities...
- + What defines journalism online?...
- + Enough with the Mitt Romney stories already...
- + Innocent idea pushes immigration hot button...
- + What you see...
- + Name the accuser? Here's your verdict...
- + Dissatisfaction on the marches...
- + Who makes police blotter?...
- + Second-hand stories...
March 2007 (View complete archive page)
- + Nobody digs out the real news like the daily paper...
- + Diversity: Fragile progress, but more left to do...
- + So, how much is just too much?...
- + Reporter or columnist? Line is sometimes blurred...
- + New media bring new problems...
- + Folha's focus...
- + Feel free to call us on errors that we regrettably make...
- + The bottom line and the bottom of the bird cage...
- + Private, public, state ...
- + Iraq, four years later: Why was press supine?...
- + Here's why we named two rape victims last week...
- + Some Trib readers find open-casket photo offensive...
- + Accountability is journalism with a conscience...
- + Bush and alternative sources ...
- + A sad face placed on U.S. health care crisis...
- + Given conflicts, Amaechi coverage 'over the top'...
- + A Powerful Story at Walter Reed...
- + Hooked on anonymity...
- + The matter of the missing columns ...
- + Death penalty: A good job with a touchy subject...
- + The future without exaggeration ...
April 2007 (View complete archive page)
- + Newspapers must guard carefully what makes them valuable...
- + Editor's blog, column will offer insight to readers...
- + Coverage of shooting sparks criticism, deserves praise...
- + Banks came out looking good on paper...
- + PBS at a Crossroads...
- + When is it too much?...
- + Did a betting pool cross the line?...
- + Horror, respect belonged in the paper...
- + When does an ad go too far? We may have found out...
- + Readers see prejudice; was there? ...
- + What to report about suicides...
- + Assessing The N & O's lacrosse coverage...
- + Story versus headline ...
- + Now, media owe Duke players due coverage of innocence...
- + Opinion shift passes quietly...
- + The Sun's parent has a purchaser: What comes next?...
- + Work to be proud of...
- + The predictable newspaper ...
- + Boy's story stirred hearts; labeling Patrick hit nerves...
- + Moving into Guardian history, without complaint ...
- + Ah, Ellen, how quickly you forget us...
- + Op-ed page ads signal another change for The Bee...
- + A big sports story, with babies...
- + The final messages...
May 2007 (View complete archive page)
- + More questions than answers...
- + Readers criticize war coverage...
- + 'Thanks for ... a little bit of news in between the ads'...
- + 'Biting the hand...
- + Many horrific crimes don't make national spotlight...
- + Newsroom angst aside, reader forums thriving...
- + Readers weigh the contents of this page...
- + Half a page and a whole lot of ire...
- + The legions without magazines...
- + Rumors about Vick, dogfight require dose of caution ...
- + Keeping current on photos is a challenge...
- + Real reporting makes a world of difference...
- + Acting as the readers' middleman...
- + Keeping a close eye on Washington pays off for readers...
- + The Battle For S Plaza...
- + No offense meant in forgetting VE Day...
- + Your excellency, the reader...
- + Courant needs to get its online corrections right...
- + Even a lonely voice can have a point...
- + Readers like the top local news on the front page...
- + A chance to weigh in on crime news...
- + Online venom or vibrant speech?...
June 2007 (View complete archive page)
- + Can you hear me now?...
- + Photo captured the viciousness of dogfighting...
- + New life for an open-government law...
- + Reporting soldiers' deaths is a difficult duty...
- + Readers have had enough of Paris Hilton 24/7...
- + The return of the guess-meter...
- + Chamber trip story inaccurate...
- + Time For An Infusion Of The Young And Optimistic...
- + Reality check needed on 'Sex al fresco'...
- + Hobbies to politics, blogs give fresh slant on ideas ...
- + Readers see agenda in Hispanic coverage...
- + Greed, Sex and Ad Nausea...
- + Discussing civility and the Internet with an expert...
- + Off the record" at risk"...
- + Changes in Business section start Tuesday...
- + All the news thats fit to blog...
- + Skillful TB coverage calls attention to U.S. security ...
- + This impartial business is really very personal...
- + At the newspaper, we take your complaints seriously...
- + Are we getting to be a little too familiar?...
- + Coverage of fire shows best of journalism...
July 2007 (View complete archive page)
- + Hats off to the Unsung Copy Editor...
- + Tragedy, journalism and power...
- + Where is Lula? Lack of balance...
- + What budget report didn't tell...
- + In Vick case, newspaper's role not that of judge, jury...
- + C-J changes reflect priority of local news...
- + News gatekeepers have to be watchful...
- + A busy summer of big stories, big headlines...
- + From Abu Ghraib to the Rio slum...
- + Short-takes don't do justice to Coulter, Maher-type hype...
- + E-N was as critical of Clinton's pardons as Bush's commutati...
- + How Sun reporter exposed trouble with Coast Guard...
- + A 'union' of bias and headline?...
- + Readers deserved an unvarnished profile of Jessie Davis...
- + Anatomy of a decoy...
August 2007 (View complete archive page)
- + A discussion on class and how it's covered...
- + Why cartoon sparked discussion across U.S....
- + Getting to meet critics in person was well worth it...
- + Tobacco Ads Light Up Readers Anger...
- + Some of those times when we hurry up and wait for a story ...
- + Obstacles on the beat, curse of the blinders...
- + Some readers recoil at saucy photo of actress, snake...
- + For publishers, civic involvement comes with the job...
- + How assumptions and stereotypes get you in trouble...
- + First a scramble, then a very long, sad night...
- + Vested interests: News photographers should not be walking a...
- + Hot debate on global warming...
- + Commentary That Provokes...
September 2007 (View complete archive page)
- + Reader advises not to cut advice...
- + Coverage of football fight riles fans...
- + Has front page turned from public affairs to entertainment?...
- + Guess who's coming to dinner...
- + Strip-searched girl shouldn't have been ID'd...
- + Fair Coverage of a D.C. Shooting?...
- + Reporters stay above fray in museum fight...
- + Sharing memories of World War II...
- + Shots fired at the journalist...
- + 'Militant' and 'vigilante' are loaded with connotations...
- + Debates Are On; Debaters Are Off...
- + Telling Benny's special-education story...
- + In housing market, news on solid ground...
- + Why Were These Comics Dropped?...
- + Readers want reminders of fateful events...
- + Wondering who to trust on Iraq? Do some research of your own...
- + Why Are Sections Out Of Order?...
- + Photographers say NFL is out of bounds ...
- + Incorrect grammar brings out readers...
- + Search for 'credible' and also 'politics'...
- + Lessons learned from a feeding frenzy...
- + How did reporters miss the Craig arrest?...
- + Sexual preference usually a private matter...
- + Join a respite from hard news and celebrate high school foot...
October 2007 (View complete archive page)
- + Errors expose need for editing...
- + Always on Sundays...
- + Article about general's criticism of war left out criticism ...
- + Readers thirst for drought coverage...
- + Did race affect the tone of paper's stories about Asa Coon? ...
- + From Collor to Jobim, marketing triumphs...
- + Rodriguez leaves a legacy of watchdog reporting...
- + Despite cutbacks, many readers still love their newspaper...
- + A promiscuous episode...
- + Working to tell national/foreign news on Page One...
- + Investigative series is what newspapers do best...
- + Setting up some comfort zones for readers...
- + Foley is gay. When was it 'relevant'?...
- + Horse slaughter solution debatable, but need to tell story i...
- + Book club aims for the moon and literary stars...
- + Does the money-laundering ...
- + Sometimes naming person's race is for public safety...
- + A decision to cut threads...
November 2007 (View complete archive page)
- + Myanmar vs. Burma: Choice of name reflects newspapers' 'styl...
- + When ads cause discomfort...
- + Owning up to our own mistakes...
- + Case shines lurid light on news media...
- + Continuity and change on the letters page ...
- + A penal of readers...
- + 'A Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy' -- or maybe both...
- + Why saving local content is the newspaper's highest priority...
- + Veterans Day Parade Coverage Doesn't Measure Up...
- + Unkind cuts of wire stories...
- + Dear reader: is Letters to the Editor really yours?...
- + Inquiry of powerful televangelists is appropriate...
- + ASY arrangement threatened Stripes objectivity...
- + No Disrespect Intended...
- + Editor's challenge: Changing world, enduring values...
- + In journalism, death is masculine...
December 2007 (View complete archive page)
- + Top Utah news story: Crandall mine tragedy...
- + At Folha, its a White Christmas...
- + Christmas inspires good stories...
- + The V-Word...
- + Getting the story when others are attempting to control it...
- + Words that betray...
- + A public tragedy strikes home for Sun journalists...
- + Longtime readers lament E-N's decision to leave parts of Tex...
- + Einstein's Wife: The relative motion of 'facts'...
- + Neutral? Only pH...
- + More mystery 'sources': Can they be believed?...
- + Candidates' diversity is a legitimate topic to cover...
- + Beware of snake oil ads that are disguised as real news...
- + Lull in Baghdad violence proves hard to quantify...
- + Corrections, like errors, aren't one-size-fits-all...
January 2008 (View complete archive page)
- + The use of library photographs to illustrate news stories...
- + Who's Behind The Courant's Voice?...
- + Feverish journalism...
- + Report finds mass deception in run-up to war...
- + The truth is out there?...
- + Use of a racial epithet stirs newsroom debate ...
- + Public and Private Lives, Intersecting...
- + Communication breakdown leaves readers out of the game...
- + Blunders in translation: should we laugh or cry?...
- + After 41 years, diversity, fairness efforts stand out...
- + The art of matching columns with cartoons...
- + Why read about God on the front page?...
- + Did Photos Show Newspaper's Liberal Bias?...
- + The mystery of the fourth-hand photo...
- + Flurry over a photo prompts explanation...
- + Corporate, public interests faced off in Landmark sale...
- + When is a story not just a story? When it's a talker...
- + Welcome to my world!...
- + Parade's cover story questioned...
- + Facing Up to the Feedback...
- + Standing by the tools of our craft...
- + Star's year-end features needed facts...
- + 'Monster pig' not really monstrous...
- + A tradition of representing readers' ends...
- + 'Offender' poor word choice...
February 2008 (View complete archive page)
- + Starred efforts -- Of storms and PCBs...
- + Obama got positive coverage, here and nationally...
- + Readers, you're in the driver's seat...
- + We are all ombudsmen...
- + A veterans charity cries foul...
- + Lights! Action! Disagreement!...
- + Covering all angles of a simmering issue...
- + Should journalists vote?...
- + On Ernie Pyle, photographed in death ...
- + The specter of the Base School...
- + Lies, rumors are a bad way to force patriotism...
- + Fair's fair in print and photos...
- + Election coverage offers something to annoy nearly everyone...
- + Corrections increase, however ......
- + Men beat out women on our Sports pages...
- + Tables are turned when other media write about us...
- + Universal Cases...
- + The Anger Over an Online Essay...
- + From the mailbag: Bottom feeders and cage fighters...
March 2008 (View complete archive page)
- + Caught totally off-guard...
- + News balance no easy task...
- + On the Frontline, Again...
- + Team effort, including readers', drove storm coverage...
- + A Reporter's Notebook...
- + An evolving newsroom aiming to provide news in many forms...
- + It was in The New York Times; So what?...
- + Why a restaurant review got yanked...
- + As I retire, there is no clarification needed: It's been tim...
- + Fooled Again...
- + Journalists and online etiquette...
- + Return of the cold war...
- + Headlines shouldn't imply Cuba is a democracy...
- + Readers' Rep: Was McCain story fit to print?...
- + Can a 14-year-old give informed consent?...
- + Natasha's story...
April 2008 (View complete archive page)
- + How to cover the story about Isabella...
- + How green Is The Courant?...
- + Cartoonist Rex Babin: An animated line of work...
- + Trust and the media...
- + Derbymania: in print and on the Web...
- + By the newsroom - Interview/Carlos Eduardo Lins da Silva ...
- + Squeezed by the Courts...
- + OHNO? Oh, yes; story sharing's a plus...
- + Staffers beam during newsroom naturalization...
- + Journalism and Jiminy Cricket...
- + Cleaning up cyber comments...
- + Farewell...
- + Bad economic news depresses readers...
- + Lots of little things add up to big changes at Bee...
- + 'Fresh set of eyes' shaping sports coverage...
- + Proofreaders go way of green eyeshades...
- + Stripes was right to let service branches disagree in print...
- + Boiling down all that information...
May 2008 (View complete archive page)
- + Web addresses should bend the rules of grammar...
- + A smorgasbord of ideas from the annual ONO conference...
- + Why do we call Obama black?...
- + Mistakes repeated become a lie...
- + When Listeners Want to Send Money to People in Stories...
- + The name game for immigrants...
- + The newspaper is not a court...
- + Time-pressed sports crew comes through in the clutch...
- + Looking tragedy in the face...
- + News for Kids feature will move online in July...
- + Caution: That program may not be from PBS...
- + Illegal immigrants (Revisited)...
- + How we might have gained Boris a few extra votes...
- + Reading about photos and facts...
- + Severino life and Serafina life...
- + Wright stars in his own theology...
- + A lesson about copycats...
- + Embarrassment is only in the eye of the beholder...
- + When our readers become editors ...
June 2008 (View complete archive page)
- + News in the country of soccer...
- + Pride parade deserved better coverage...
- + What a columnist left unsaid...
- + Series on chaplain serving in Iraq strikes a chord...
- + Print journalism is doing its job in San Antonio...
- + Newsman Russert's death merited a front page story...
- + When speech isn't free...
- + The second life of journalism...
- + Doonesbury returns, but to new spot ...
- + The question of impartiality...
- + For papers, there's no escaping change...
- + Lives scarred forever...
- + What exactly is 'post-racial'?...
- + Does the World Need More News Ombudsmen?...
- + Army spouse's sexy calendar draws jibes...
- + Entitled to their opinions, yes. But their facts?...
- + Online 'marketplace of ideas' can get surly...
- + Diplomat, not a soldier...
- + The battle between old and new media...
July 2008 (View complete archive page)
- + A 13-part series to love or hate...
- + Journalism and public policies...
- + Bridgend and suicide reporting...
- + Young minority journalists inspire us all...
- + Look into the Future...
- + Gas costs force rural route cuts...
- + Not exactly one nation under a groove...
- + Newspapers dying? Not if you take a global view...
- + RiseUp: a conversation about race...
- + The accessory and the essential...
- + Drawing the Line on Satire...
- + Ombudsman's mailbag...
- + Written guidance necessary to establish boundaries of commen...
- + Was Helms coverage too much?...
- + Three recurring questions...
- + They really care about the paper...
- + To teachers, without affection...
August 2008 (View complete archive page)
- + An Evolving Model for Editing...
- + Assessing campaign ads requires precision...
- + Election coverage here and there...
- + Elections, donations and the news...
- + Listening politely to our readers...
- + War and the truth...
- + Why newspapers need an independent voice...
- + Drowning by numbers...
- + Geography lesson: Breaking down the bias in ESPN's coverage...
- + An ending, but not a departure...
- + John Edwards story -- the readers react ...
- + Newsroom faces stricter rules on campaigns...
- + Silence of the lambs...
- + Correction numbers only part of the picture...
- + From the past to the future...
- + NPR learns from a misstep on its Web site...
- + The painful images of war...
- + Multiple tasks affect the brain...
- + As public editor's door closes, some wistful thoughts...
- + A big metro area, and we'll continue to cover it all...
September 2008 (View complete archive page)
- + The time has come to say goodbye...
- + A controversy that lasted 55 years...
- + Cleveland Orchestra critic's removal incites newspaper criti...
- + The power of political cartoons...
- + Chronicle strengths a credit to its readers...
- + Sports merger equals more -- and less...
- + N.Y. Times provided best Wall Street coverage...
- + Biden Coverage vs. Palin Coverage...
- + Holding and unfolding front pages...
- + The old, new, borrowed and blue ...
- + The Pilot downplayed overdue price hikes...
- + Don't give up......
- + Army: photo of slain soldier was digitally altered...
- + Five things readers want to see...
- + Plain Dealer offered a nod instead of a fitting reflection o...
- + About little murders...
- + Did too, did not, did too, did not...
- + The scrutiny of Sarah Palin...
- + Wiretaps, Leaks & Co. Ltd....
- + E-N has both sides of the presidential race covered...
- + When the news causes harm...
- + The Reader Advocate...
- + Similar real estate, but not necessarily equal coverage...
- + NPR Rescues Its Missing Corrections Policy...
October 2008 (View complete archive page)
- + Who remembers the Isabella case?...
- + Some bright spots in gloomy economic news...
- + Unpublishing...
- + Keeping their opinions to themselves...
- + On front page, total diligence is little...
- + The Ombudsman's Mailbag...
- + And the world (still?) has not ended...
- + And the world (still?) has not ended...
- + Why do newspapers endorse?...
- + Keeping Wall Street's turmoil in perspective...
- + Balancing the Newscasts...
- + Welcome to democratic normalcy...
- + Does coverage of criminals glorify them?...
November 2008 (View complete archive page)
- + Public opinion really does exist...
- + Grammar nannies take us to the woodshed ...
- + Cartoon rubbed salt into wound...
- + Should NPR run funding credits from the Department of Homela...
- + 'Free health card' ad is confusing...
- + Some readers can't get past race in coverage of Obama family...
- + Between the cup and the lip . . ....
- + Some timely, or untimely, ghosts?...
- + The Guardian's green and global mission...
- + Health is more than just selfish hedonism...
- + Opinions weren't diverse enough during election cycle...
- + ESPN has minuscule margin on mistakes, apologies...
- + Why the language of poverty is a sensitive issue...
- + The perilous intersection of art and religion...
- + Old news for wrapping fish...
- + An Obama tilt in campaign coverage...
- + Public perception is not always fair...
- + The good, bad of political coverage...
- + The fine line between wit and prejudice...
- + Political DVD in the newspaper was just a slightly higher-te...
- + What motivates voters to make their choices...
- + Covering tragedies two ways...
- + Giving readers a voice, weeding out 'turf'...
- + Press sneezes, society catches cold...
December 2008 (View complete archive page)
- + So long to a Virginian-Pilot tradition...
- + A farewell hope for The Post's future ...
- + Hail Janus! 12 wishes for 2009...
- + Readers weigh in on shoe-throwing story...
- + Resolutions for a better Post...
- + Feagler's Coffee Shoppe characters brew a little ...
- + Deep Throat's legacy to journalism...
- + ESPN can define boundaries and keep its edge, too ...
- + Pilot loses wealth of experience...
- + Separating the terror and the terrorists...
- + Getting women Into the news...
- + A lot more water is going to fall...
- + The watchdog still barks -- and bites...
- + Blagojevich story wasn't local, but it was worth Page 1...
- + Web users bid anonymous comments happy goodbye...
- + Money talks, and so do Tribune Money section readers...
- + Greek protesters: We feel bleak and hopeless Lack of opport...
- + The dilemmas of a fifty-something...
- + Reporting of Pearl Harbor attack was timely, but imperfect...
- + The high price of truth-telling...
January 2009 (View complete archive page)
- + Pills, spills and the wrong kind of splash...
- + After badly done......
- + The important line between argument and insult...
- + Sweating the details of a historic Page One...
- + The generals' second careers ...
- + Is 'Indian' a derogatory word?...
- + The devil of bias in omitting (r)elevant (d)etails...
- + How to attract youth to the newspaper...
- + War of opinions about the war...
- + Yellowstone quake story leaves grammarians 'strucken' ...
- + Financial reporting and the banking crisis...
- + Mideast coverage causes conflict ...
- + When it's necessary to shock without being morbid...
- + Just the facts...
February 2009 (View complete archive page)
- + Lessons from a collective shipwreck...
- + To sinister newsroom plots, we plead not guilty...
- + The pitfalls of name calling...
- + They still have the Nixon tapes to kick around...
- + Incendiary ad fires up rights debate...
- + Was sharia reference relevant?...
- + The Mailbag...
- + Gammons/A-Rod was no Frost/Nixon...
- + Folha and So Paulo's problems...
- + Columnist T.J. Simers goes to the doghouse...
- + No Utah lottery, just lots of lottery fans...
- + Juan Williams, NPR and Fox News ...
- + Looking at a lobbyist-newsletter relationship...
- + Far beyond the bonfire of the vanities...
- + 'Mallard Fillmore' won't be going the way of the dodo...
- + Some readers want sports to stay in the sports section...
- + Easier said than done...
March 2009 (View complete archive page)
- + Evolving Express-News is set to turn another page this week...
- + Castles of paper, screen and sand...
- + Business reporting helps readers negotiate troubled times...
- + A corrections process in need of correcting...
- + It's necessary to take care of older readers...
- + Obama's 'Special Olympics' gaffe: Simple blunder, or big new...
- + ESPN's excess root of fan frustration...
- + Newspapers build credibility by telling you how we know...
- + Bad News, and More Bad News...
- + What matters to readers...
- + Comic strip's fans get shirty...
- + Court reporting in a semi-secret society...
- + Journalists can't be turned into informers...
- + Rush to judgment on media coverage is unfair...
- + The justice system and freedom of expression...
- + Foot fetishes ...
- + Mr. Obama???...
- + Press watchdog work crucial...
- + A public editor's farewell...
- + Some observations during Carnival...
April 2009 (View complete archive page)
- + Tomorrow's news media may look like today's op-ed page ...
- + What, officially, makes a rifle an assault rifle ...
- + Journalism does not rhyme with mockery...
- + The moral of the 'Ugly' Sue story ...
- + TV book omissions top the complaint list...
- + The Mailbag...
- + Abseiling or rappelling, banners and wires...
- + ... don't give up...
- + Some readers don't revel in coverage of Alamo 'tea party'...
- + Readers have mixed feedback about the new Star...
- + An unfortunate placement of a funding credit...
- + Staying Protected From Denials...
- + The back story at Frontline...
- + Reaction to the front-page ad...
- + In the news business, it's nothing personal...
- + When comment spills over into feuding...
- + Right of response and freedom...
- + The perils of not giving credit where credit is due...
May 2009 (View complete archive page)
- + Back to school for journalism...
- + Believe it or not, reporters can be delicate...
- + Voters the 'problem'? Cheney 'spewing'? Says who?...
- + Comics in the classroom and the newspaper...
- + New media and a new wave of ombudsmen...
- + Outrage over NPR's handling of Outrage...
- + Tough times...
- + People suspicious about the media" fall for Internet fables"...
- + Uplifting times...
- + Newspapers have record numbers of readers...
- + Blade's bar for ethics consistently high...
- + Assembling the pieces to make a mosaic...
- + Channeling online rage...
- + Ostrich or apocalyptic...
- + What do you call torture? Torture...
- + Debate over influenza A coverage...
- + The debate over Star's reporting...
June 2009 (View complete archive page)
- + Your voices have been heard ...
- + In Iran it's Paradise for Citizen Journalism...
- + The readers' editor on ... the Twitter revolution and the ne...
- + Rhee's Silent Treatment...
- + With education, it's essential to dig deep...
- + Some things are better left unsaid...
- + Taking a peek inside the editorial board...
- + Much ado about almost nothing...
- + When journalists sum up opposing viewpoints, placement can l...
- + Disturbing images...
- + Why do the media always focus on the shooter?...
- + D-day coverage criticized...
- + Pay to play: Can they save the Internet without destroying i...
- + Such ire over my copy! And if you want tvnow, call us now...
- + Murder, intrigue -- Only on the Web...
- + Everybody already knew...
- + What happened to skepticism?...
- + Diversity a work in progress...
- + Twelve fewer ombudsmen ...
- + Judging The Star's jumpstart...
- + Economic climate leads to a change in the weather...
- + Aung San Suu Kyi: an apology and correction...
July 2009 (View complete archive page)
- + Tinker, tailor, soldier ... journalist...
- + The demise of the Observer's TV guide...
- + Lets clarify health care issues for public...
- + At the edge of irresponsibility...
- + Straddling the digital divide...
- + The importance of being young enough...
- + How to decrease bad outcomes...
- + Over-zealous close-up...
- + Ribamar from left to the right...
- + Maybe McNamara should have stayed at Ford...
- + Was Jackson coverage fair to Fawcett?...
- + The Mailbag...
- + Journalistic Ideals, Human Values...
- + Great Men Ronaldo and Michael...
August 2009 (View complete archive page)
- + Errors on flu vaccine bring quick response from reader...
- + It's difficult to uncover a hornet's nest...
- + Deadlines are a harsh master for newspapers...
- + The value of an open notebook...
- + Solid facts are hard to come by in health care debate...
- + The insult was extra large...
- + When God enters the coverage...
- + The British propensity for profanity...
- + The Ball is Faster Than the Players...
- + Got a hot story for our newspaper? Sorry, we don't buy it...
- + Why Cassandra, the cricket, alter ego?...
- + Editors ought to keep their readers in the loop...
- + Where's Michael Vick?...
- + Some object to photo of suffering Stringer...
- + The flourishing life of the obit desk...
- + The Internet at the service of journalism...
- + Readers have conflicting opinions on how to report the Obama...
September 2009 (View complete archive page)
- + E-N nuclear expansion portfolio is thorough...
- + The daily newspaper and its producers have a great deal to t...
- + Astronaut's fiasco on the moon...
- + Disguised corrections...
- + Disgusting image...
- + PBS, yes and no...
- + Expedient outrage and the Semenya tests...
- + No, The Blade is not covering up for Obama...
- + Calculations of war: Which risk is reasonable?...
- + Why so few ombudsmen?...
- + Wrongly deaf to right-wing media?...
- + 'Old' is in the eye of the beholder...
- + Three's company, can also be a crowd...
- + Mistakes . . . and a wedding giveaway...
- + News about the Van Jones controversy appeared after the stor...
- + Dying Marine photo part of a powerful story that needed to b...
- + Should NPR have run the photo of a dead Marine?...
- + Small, but not trivial, science errors...
- + A tough but correct call on photo of dying Marine...
- + Journalism and environmental policy...
- + End of the Rainbow...
- + Too much Kennedy...
- + God and Darwin ...
October 2009 (View complete archive page)
- + Explaining a newspaper's stances...
- + NPR and diversity -- NABJ says NPR must do better...
- + It's not Gaza, guerilla or terror...
- + Other Voices: The Right to Know ...
- + A story too good to be true...
- + Many doubts about the college entrance exam...
- + The need for responsible reporting of suicide stories...
- + Teen, adult neither exclusive nor synonymous...
- + Go ahead, GREAT Brazil...
- + Baltic murders, transparency and the press...
- + Courts should accept immediacy of today's communications...
- + Why a 'birther' leader is news...
- + Honduran coup requires context...
- + Blurring line between news, ads...
- + For newspapers, independent must mean self-sufficient...
November 2009 (View complete archive page)
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January 2010 (View complete archive page)
- + Scanning the source
- + A valediction: Going quietly
- + Seal the brown envelope for good
- + Balancing a need to know and a need to respect
- + Personal details in fatal-crash story went too far
- + Should reporters protect the people they cover?
- + Loud protests on NPR's 'Tea Party' cartoon
- + 'Alleged,' 'accused' are important words
- + Tattoos, Woods, rabbits and unrealized promises
- + Journalists dying for the story
- + Times standards, staffers or not
- + Post looks to enhance appeal to online, print readers
February 2010 (View complete archive page)
- + It's not a spoiler, it's news
- + Be yourself, not 'Ellie Light,' when writing a letter to the editor
- + Full disclosure for journalists
- + Series on screening needed follow-up reporting
- + On sending physician-journalists to cover disasters
- + Too close to home
- + Activist historian Howard Zinn's obit causes a firestorm
- + Fewer copy editors after staff cuts means more grammar errors
- + Three sides to every story
- + Face to face with tragedy
- + Why the letters page is still a male stronghold
- + Noting 'non-standard' English troubles some readers
March 2010 (View complete archive page)
- + Milly, the media and the perpetrator
- + Lost in the shorthand
- + Whose views make the news?
- + Coverage a reflection of gay-tolerant community
- + In the abortion debate, words matter
- + Truth, lies and new media
- + Time to commemorate access, accountability
- + A painful, powerful program
- + Which sports to cover? It's a tough call
- + Behind the Rahm Emanuel 'conspiracy'
- + E-N criticized in this space, now for some praise
- + Challenging power and serving the vulnerable
- + Stories on media screening weak on sourcing
- + We shouldn't accept precedents we'll later regret
April 2010 (View complete archive page)
- + Questioning the Pope
- + We take mistakes in the newspaper seriously
- + There are black Latinos and there are white Latinos
- + Facebook 'friends' create ethical issues for journalists
- + Where are the women?
- + Working for free ...
- + Readers like protest stories ... when they agree
- + W. was here — where was the Express-News?
- + Right to fair trial doesn't trump 1st Amendment
- + Ageism in the media
- + It's in our interest to foster a culture of honest reporting
- + Sins of the son
May 2010 (View complete archive page)
- + Source confidentiality’s shaky future online
- + The scientific twist of real news
- + NPR and the iPad: Too close for comfort?
- + The Post will survive the recession and the Web
- + Reporter-columnists tread fine line with readers' trust
- + Who will hold the news media accountable?
- + Who decides what's news?
- + Photo is blurred, but ethics guidelines aren't
- + Another opening, another show …
- + Damaging gaps in a mine story
- + The pitfalls of putting your personal problems online
June 2010 (View complete archive page)
- + Is rescuing the news business the government’s business?
- + When media report on media
- + Why no Lakers news on the front page?
- + Anonymous sources the root of all evil?
- + A final report from Internal Affairs
- + The line between pithy and insensitive
- + A final report from Internal Affairs
- + The Plain Dealer's Gaza cartoon: How and why
- + Will Twitter transform journalism?
- + Small errors can turn into bigger ones later
- + What did the Nigerian bishop really say about gay men?
- + The good, bad, ugly of summer stories
- + Post failed to cover protests at bank executives' homes
- + Four-year-old photos keep pot boiling on immigration debate
- + Only moral journalists need apply
- + There is gold in them supplements, but risk, too
July 2010 (View complete archive page)
- + Are patriotic fervour and xenophobia two sides of same coin?
- + The Mailbag reflects changing face of journalism
- + Pool tragedy not a drowning
- + Behind the media contractors' veil
- + Giving credit where it's due
- + A policy change on illegal immigration terminology
- + Sound decision
- + The Brazilian dilemma
- + Making the online customer king at The Post
- + Did NPR endanger an Afghan farmer's life?
- + Measuring local news
- + Balancing candor and confidentiality
August 2010 (View complete archive page)
- + The readers' editor on… the four-letter word conundrum
- + Keeping track of readers' tracks
- + Checking politicians’ facts
- + Temperatures rising, humans need to stay cool
- + Reporters mustn't get too close to subjects
- + Keeping online discourse civil is an ongoing battle
- + Was newspaper series a threat to lives and security?
- + Bell coverage resonates with readers
- + Illegal immigration - Viewer unrest continues
- + The 'Decision' dilemma
- + Reader contends Blade lacks diversity
- + From the ocean to the Oil Patch
September 2010 (View complete archive page)
- + Was this show a must or a bust(ier)?
- + Every reader has an opinion on what's 'offensive'
- + What's the purpose of ethics codes and ombudsmen?
- + The Herald and Pastor Terry Jones
- + Coverage of the pope's visit and religion in general
- + Long, hard preparation to tell a big story
- + As errors grow, so does a credibility gap
- + Writer's use of 'schizophrenic store' was a mistake
- + A ‘healthy’ discussion on diversity
- + Interpreting the Pentagon's new media policy
- + Transparency key to credibility
- + We edit letters, not always so well
- + Judge Walker Is Gay. Are You Sure? Does It Matter?
- + When a news item goes viral
- + 'Facts' about Cuba often not easy to ferret out
October 2010 (View complete archive page)
- + Strange times for freedom of speech
- + Carrying the facts too far
- + Sweet photos a breath of fresh air
- + NPR employees and political rallies: Facts behind the controversy
- + Where was the 'Where's Muhammad?' cartoon?
- + Users vs. readers
- + Between 'Yes' and 'No'
- + The kindest cuts of all
- + Diversity of voice would herald a true new age
- + Readers respond to ad's fake front page
- + Now everyone can experience publishing's perils
- + Closer to the truth
November 2010 (View complete archive page)
- + Names in the news, before they can read
- + Times responds to criticism of foster care coverage
- + It's the economy, Stupid!
- + Avoiding even a hint of bias
- + Evolution or devolution?
- + As online journalism evolves, Post needs to share its standards
- + NPR should start a national conversation on Muslims
- + The Star’s watchdog mandate
- + Freedom is freedom of speech
- + Readers want attention to less-competitive political races, too
- + 'Obamacare' wrong choice for headline
- + Keeping truth alive in the Balkans
December 2010 (View complete archive page)
- + Bribery or the pursuit of truth?
- + A sad end to the career of a pioneering journalist
- + The mailbag: A year-end grab bag
- + Reporting restraints eased
- + Headlines take shots from the right and left
- + Truth elusive in Kent State deaths
- + Why we were right to publish the WikiLeaks material
- + Post should give more background information on non-staff stories
- + Use my tax break for debt relief
- + The price of press freedom
- + Raytown joke in ‘Stargazing’ offends
- + Routine election coverage needed more
- + Republicanism and the royal engagement
- + Would Mark Twain have edited Tina Fey?
- + Are teachers treated fairly by The Miami Herald?
January 2011 (View complete archive page)
- + Reporting transgender issues
- + Bloomberg gets it (mostly) right
- + Can The Post regain its legacy of excellence?
- + When you were the editor
- + iPhone, iPads, texts and tweets
- + Time to tally corrections, maybe re-evaluate policy
- + NPR's Giffords mistake: Re-Learning the lesson of checking sources
- + The debate over immigration language
- + The dearth of comments by women in print
- + An affirmation of independence
- + Mexico media face harsh consequences
- + NPR apologizes for WikiLeaks mistake
February 2011 (View complete archive page)
- + It's Kadafi -- at least according to the L.A. Times
- + Shooting photos after shooting dicey business
- + The Observer and the private investigator
- + Words can change the world
- + Problems with photos of the heavens
- + Balance needed to offset overwhelming negativity
- + A threat to press and academic freedom
- + Coverage of internal police inquiry criticized
- + Can you hear me now?
- + Comcast’s NBC takeover may prompt industry makeover
- + Supposed factional bias in Western Cape stories
- + More on guns, kissing and other stuff
- + Of anniversaries and axes to grind
- + Speed and credibility
- + It's 1, 2, 3, 4 strikes you're out ...
March 2011 (View complete archive page)
- + The damage done by Post reporter Sari Horwitz’s plagiarism
- + New Blade spelling of Gadhafi aims for consistency
- + Straight to the point
- + Earthquake news out of sync with print schedule
- + What price the truth now?
- + How the Plain Dealer gives readers a crack at balancing Ohio's budget
- + Dangerous decisions
- + Journalists are not for sale
- + On Wisconsin, readers want to see more
- + No one seems to be taking care of NPR
- + The anchor as radio talk show host
- + Poynter takes over ESPN ombudsman position
April 2011 (View complete archive page)
- + The painful costs of media restraint
- + Three new reviews released
- + So close, yet so far
- + Explaining the Fukushima crisis
- + Chocolate milk or the mayor’s arrest?
- + Good question: Why cover Fiesta?
- + Standards that everyone can see
- + NPR's coverage of Japan is 'trivial.' Say what?
- + The man whose guilt goes unquestioned
- + Bombs away: FAIR attacks NewsHour again
- + When newspaper staffers don’t answer their e-mail
- + Newspaper shines on week's hot local story
May 2011 (View complete archive page)
- + How news ombudsmen can make themselves essential
- + Ombuds ask the tough questions
- + Journalism needs more ombudsmen and news councils
- + When the facts of PBS life collide online
- + Does the Star newsroom reflect the face of Kenya?
- + The White House’s bedtime bombshell
- + What really annoys readers
- + Readers may be cross, but puzzle creator's aim is fun
- + Unflattering photo of Boehner was just bad luck, not a mugging
- + Looking back on 4 years of critiquing The Herald
- + Opinions and the news
June 2011 (View complete archive page)
- + Exposure of information vs. exposure to information
- + 15 years spent honing the online product
- + Online comments: Our goal of civility is falling short
- + Star did its job fairly
- + Women’s sports coverage lacking
- + Judge M&G's standards for yourself
- + Adios, NPR
- + The sticky business of foundations funding the news
- + Whether the truth will always come out
- + Conspiracy theories a distraction from real news
- + Why I'd like to see bin Laden's death photo
July 2011 (View complete archive page)
- + Mission impossible? Creating ombudsmen in Vietnam
- + New reviews released and under way
- + State budget headline didn't amount to liberal bias
- + Press council for a new era
- + Celebrities in a serious newspaper
- + Those "sponsorships" and other things
- + Putting news before comment
- + Planet Money misfires on local economic developers
- + Ad listing ‘Most Wanted’ needs change in wording
August 2011 (View complete archive page)
- + National newspaper ads: Neither 'smart' nor 'sexy'
- + A populist future for The Post
- + Coverage of Tierney, diocese lawsuits divides readers
- + Leaked 'facts' fertile ground for local scandal
- + When is barely true mostly false?
- + Jaycee Dugard: Readers object to ‘sex slave’ headline
- + Keeping readers up to date as the facts become clearer
- + ESPN too locked into lockout coverage?
- + Working for quality journalism in the dog days of summer
- + Sex, drugs and Stars and Stripes
- + The Observer and the private investigator
- + Now you see it, now you don’t
September 2011 (View complete archive page)
- + The media, civil liberties and security in post-9/11 America
- + Where are women’s opinions?
- + Tangled relationships in Jerusalem
- + Reporters trust or ignore sources at their own peril
- + Readers looking for news, not Kardashians
- + Shooting coverage leads to claim of pro-union bias
- + Newsroom staff must stay out of politics
- + Reassessing 9/11, not rehashing it
- + Don’t trust Wikipedia
- + On race: The relevance of saying 'minority'
October 2011 (View complete archive page)
- + Subscription cancelers are an odd bunch
- + The World Newspaper Congress and The World Editors Forum
- + 'Mexico under siege': Sensational, or a stark truth?
- + The readers' editor on … corrections and clarification
- + ESPN's decision to part with Hank Williams
- + Reviews on brain imagery and name calling
- + Is there a place for profanity in The Post?
- + Readers weigh in on sports, 'same sex'
- + Picture of bombing victim's home was wrong
- + A mixed response to the Guardian's price rise
- + What is the future of international reporting?
- + Source’s criminal history: a deciding factor in coverage?
- + Sam Reed stood up to media malpractice
November 2011 (View complete archive page)
- + Hate speech and its pernicious effects
- + How do you describe the unspeakable?
- + Should journalists never be activists?
- + ESPN stumbles with Penn State coverage
- + Including ex-Blade worker in series was the right call
- + Mean AARP, naughty upskirts and slow loads
- + Out-sourcing the job of muzzling the media
- + Disappearance of baby captivates, frustrates readers
- + Scandal taints all journalists
- + 'Non-lethal projectiles' was non-accurate police-speak
- + Averting accusations of antisemitism
- + Some readers wonder: What does he do?
- + Dying all over the front pages
- + Frontline: Pushing the hot buttons
December 2011 (View complete archive page)
- + Media Revolution: How can free speech be liberated?
- + A surprising story about letters to the editor
- + Name withheld, but not his identity
- + Telling truth to tyrants
- + Afghanistan bombing photo: Graphic, yet important
- + Seeking fairness in the tough world of news aggregation
- + Riding the Republican roller coaster
- + The photographers' art of capturing what they see
- + Pair of crime stories crossed line, reader contends
- + The only guarantee of freedom is freedom
- + The 'fourth branch' has usurped the Fourth Estate
January 2012 (View complete archive page)
- + Special investigation: Mrs. Bhutto’s Murder (Part I)
- + ‘Creative’ cartoon profanity is no joke
- + Story 'jumps,' editorials, crime terms raise questions
- + Should The Times be a truth vigilante?
- + What's in a name? Depends on whether you use the tilde
- + A step in the right direction on openness
- + The Observer is 220 years old; Happy birthday to us
- + The young aren't as discerning as they should be
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Reader’s advocate plays watchdog role…
Gordon Sanderson London Free Press 28-May-94
Two or three times a week I get calls from readers seeking help with consumer problems, such as the mother who said her child’s gerbil chewed its way out of its cage shortly after they got it home from the pet store.
Obviously there’s something wrong if a product sold as a gerbil cage doesn’t fulfill its basic function.
But I have to disappoint these callers, some of whom associate the role of reader’s advocate with a public service column called “Sound Off,” which was discontinued in 1987 after a 20-year run.
True, an …
Staffing the complaints department…
Charles Bond Palm Beach Post 5-May-94
As you read see this column, your friendly neighborhood Listening Post editor will be returning from the Organization of News Ombudsmen’s annual meeting. Which makes this a good time for a reprise of what the Listening Post is all about.
Ever wonder what news ombudsmen talk about when they get together? Ever wonder what a news ombudsman is?
Unless you’ve been reading one of the few newspapers that has one, ombudsman is likely to sound like a foreign word – which it is: Scandinavian in origin, it means “intermediary” in English.
Newspaper ombudsmen address …
