Carla Savalli, former assistant managing editor for local news, gives Smith much of the credit for changing "our workflow and our culture from a onedeadline newsroom to a multiplatform information company." At the Spokesman-Review, his "Transparent Newsroom" initiative included inviting the public to news meetings, blogging about behind-the scenes decision-making, and eventually Webcasting daily news meetings.
The death of the Valley Journal was just one of the cutbacks implemented by its owner, Colorado Mountain News Media, which like other media companies is reeling from the financial reversals of the newspaper business. The Sopris Sun, now in its fourth month of publication, has set its sights on the local coverage Carbondale missed when the Valley Journal was gone: community activism, upcoming functions, high school sports.
According to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, ratings for late local news- casts on network-affiliated stations across the country were 6.7 percent lower during the November 2007 sweeps than the previous year - a faster decline than newspaper circulation (down 2.6 percent daily, 3.5 percent on Sunday) during roughly the same period. The gravest threats include the flight of classified advertisers, the deterioration of retail advertising and the indebtedness of newspaper owners. In my city, the names of the dearly departed included such homegrown advertisers as Hechinger hardware stores, Trak Auto Parts, Crown Books, Dart Drug, Peoples Drug, Raleigh's clothing stores and the department stores Woodward & Lothrop, Garfinckel's and Hecht's.
Hull shares his experience in covering retired Gen Wesley Clark's presidential campaign. Their regular complains during the coverage are discussed.
In a February column in Northwestern University's daily newspaper, the Daily Northwestern, Medill School of Journalism senior David Spett, 22, took less than 500 words to outline his suspicions that the school's dean, John Lavine, had used fabricated quotes (attributed to an unnamed student) to promote one of the school's courses in an alumni magazine. [...] within two weeks, thousands of words had been devoted to those suspicions by a myriad of media outlets, including National Public Radio, the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Editor & Publisher, the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Associated Press. The quote controversy comes atop lingering faculty and student indignation over Lavine's announcement last year that the school's entire curr...
Many journalists use such sites to track local men and women stationed in Iraq, although the Defense Department's decision earlier this year to restrict troops' access to MySpace and similar sites could hinder that in the future. In June, cowriting a story about a murder-suicide that left six people dead, Jones used the site's language in describing one of the victims as the proud parent of a beautiful little girl and handsome little boy.' At another point, Jones was working on a Memorial Day story about a local soldier who had been killed in Iraq. Perhaps the best-known example of Facebook's and MySpace's value for journalists took place in April after the massacre at Virginia Tech, when the campus paper, the Collegiate Times, assigned two reporters to mine social networking sites-a ...
Rieder comments that the media's coverage of Hurricane Katrina was particularly impressive because of the fact that the journalists were ready, even eager, to hold officialdom accountable. For years, the Washington press corps took a skeptical approach toward people in power. With Katrina, the chasm between the platitudes of the clueless government spokesmen and the ugly reality of New Orleans was overwhelming.
[...] the Democrat-Gazette's city edition has the highest Sunday penetration of any major newspaper in the country, at 63 percent. The Democrat-Gazette was down about half that. Because it is privately owned, the paper doesn't have to disclose its profit margin - and it doesn't.
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