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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a journalism ethics quandary!
The most famous journalist of all time is also the most famous superhero. For the past three-quarters of a century, with a few exceptions, his alter-ego, Clark Kent, has been working as a reporter for the Daily Planet. In a new DC Comics series, he and Lois Lane, his Pulitzer Prize-winning wife, meet a fiendish...
Virginia blackface scandal: Journalists share their experiences
On February 4, Virginia residents gathered outside the governor’s mansion in Richmond to call for Ralph Northam’s resignation. A racist image from his medical school yearbook page had surfaced on a right-wing news site. Soon, Northam and General Mark Herring, the attorney general, admitted to wearing blackface. National news outlets heralded a “political crisis” in...
In a solo show, a writer performs interviews on polyamory
This week, in a rehearsal room at Molloy College in downtown Manhattan, Xandra Clark sat in a folding chair, one leg tucked under the other, hand on her forehead, deep in thought. The room, fluorescent lit, was mostly empty. Clark, who is 28, had earbuds in; her cell phone was tucked into a pocket. “Most...
Free online guide helps reporters navigate tricky laws of government access
On January 4, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press published the latest edition of its Open Government Guide—an indispensable resource for journalists navigating the tricky waters of government access, and a go-to compendium of state-level sunshine laws for 30 years. The guide, which is free and online, provides users with up-to-date statutory and...
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Seventy-two years ago, I worked the paper route on the west side of Montgomery, Alabama, delivering the Alabama Journal to my neighbors, who were mostly African American. One afternoon, in 1946, I met, and would eventually befriend, the son of my...
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On an editorial call today, CNN President Jeff Zucker addressed internal concerns over his appointment of Sarah Isgur as political editor, clarifying her role and taking questions https://t.co/bU7dyJtseH via @WSJ
— Amol Sharma (@asharma) February 22, 2019We're honored to welcome @carolrosenberg, the foremost reporter on the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to the @nytimes. https://t.co/ar0NkUROmh
— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) February 20, 2019Egypt detained and turned back NYT's @ddknyt https://t.co/SvnxQAODm0
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) February 19, 2019Pittsburgh Post-Gazette guild releases eyewitness accounts of publisher John Robinson Block’s “erratic, menacing and disturbing conduct” in the newsroom: https://t.co/m0Hnq4mYj1
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) February 13, 2019NEW: More than 300 @latimes journalists oppose the company’s proposal on intellectual property, which would mark a new low in the media industry and could limit our staff’s long-standing literary and creative contributions. Read our open letter here: https://t.co/YJCIXHoLhi
— L.A. Times Guild 🦅 (@latguild) February 13, 2019
