Monthly Archives: February 2018

No, we don’t love mass shootings, and no, we don’t cover these massacres to bump up ratings.

Here’s the official response from our national organization.

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“The teens went for the jugular, without fear of losing access to sources or being insufficiently deferential. Journalists should learn from this.”

One of the more powerful observations in this great piece from Poynter, about how today’s digital and media-savvy teens are not in awe of politicians and ask the kind of questions that reporters at every level should be asking.

Have you ever been hesitant to ask a hard question of a politician, for fear that he or she wouldn’t take your calls in the future?

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Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post has some really cogent thoughts on the topic.

Read her column here.

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An informative article from the Sun Sentinel about the hoops reporters are jumping through to get more information about the massacre.

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This is long and wonky, but if you read through it, you’ll find some really useful nuggets – things to keep in mind as your station decides which stories to put up on social media.

The article is here.

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An interesting question posed by Buzzfeed. The article is here.

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The Walter Cronkite Award For Excellence In Journalism will be presented to Roberts by the RTDNF.

The notice is here.

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“These platform companies are at the center of a vast ecosystem of services that enable highly targeted political communications that reach millions of people with customized messages that are invisible to the broader public.” Just one quote from this fascinating article from the Columbia Journalism Review.

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Everything from social media to newscasts to podcasts! Check the lineup of sessions here.

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More than you might think, as pointed out in this article from Bloomberg. Another reason reporters should be very careful about relying on information posted on Twitter.

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