As I’ve written before, the Plain Dealer newsroom has been able to turn out strong policy reporting even while understaffed. But the paper is entering a whole new plane of challenges, as it aims to maintain its standard of high-quality coverage with even fewer experienced reporters on the job. The advocacy campaign Save the Plain Dealer addressed the scale of the challenge in its post-layoffs statement: “Collectively, (the loss of about 50 reporters and staff) eradicates hundreds of years of institutional knowledge and experience. …They will diminish the flow of information upon which democracy depends.”
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this is heartbreaking. these writers had become liike family to so many of us. what a shameful day.
#1 Posted by Myra White, CJR on Wed 31 Jul 2013 at 05:16 PM