Columns
Pressing Issues
An upcoming book by Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez goes before the cameras with Robert Downey Jr. in the reporter's role, and Jamie Foxx as troubled Nathaniel Ayers.
Shoptalk
On the eve of thisd month's ASNE convention, where the requisite panel on young readers will be held for the umpteenth time, perhaps it's appropriate to re-evaluate whether the newspaper industry's efforts to hip-ify itself for the kiddos has actually been productive. The answer is no, because the premise is based on a fallacy.
Stop the Presses
I stopped getting the print edition of my local newspaper this month. I'm a bit behind some of my New Media brethen, but I still feel a bit guilty about this.
Pressing Issues
Why did Roselle Hoffmaster, a young, attractive, doctor, and Army captain -- a graduate of Smith, with a husband back home -- pass away from a "non-hostile" cause?
Shoptalk
If we were long on the edge of "disaster" with a "financial nuclear winter" waiting in the wings, why were American news consumers among the last to know?
Pressing Issues
To choose just one example: David Brooks. Exactly five years ago, on the verge of war, he even attacked his current employer, The New York Times, for calling for "still more discussion" before attacking Iraq.
Shoptalk
Former 'Reflejos' president shares some hard-earned wisdom.
Pressing Issues
A Pennsylvania mother is suing the contractor, KBR, as other fatal accidents surface in the press -- and congressional and Pentagon probes begin. Here's how I got involved.
Pressing Issues
On the fifth anniversary, forget about the negative for a moment, and consider the contributions by everyone from non-famous reporters to -- Stephen Colbert and Neil Young?
Newspaper Beat
Presidential candidates receive surveys from every special interest from PETA to Planned Parenthood, but the one they apparently find easiest to disregard comes from Sunshine Week, the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) initiative on open government.
Pressing Issues
Wherever you stand on the Obama/Clinton race, one thing nearly everyone agrees on is this: She voted for the war resolution in 2002, but now says the resolution did not really authorize the war and calls the 2003 invasion a mistake. But what did she do in attempting to halt the war in the two weeks before it began?
Shoptalk
As the fifth anniversary of the start of the war nears, Joe Galloway, one of the most respected war correspondents ever, looks back at press coverage of Iraq, and concludes: "In war, truth is too often the first casualty, and it is not just a president or a secretary of defense or assorted official spokesmen who do the killing. Our brothers and sisters in the media also participate in the execution."
Get Me Rewrite
But The New York Times executive editor says, "clearly, there is a lot of satisfaction in reporting it" and "it is exhilarating to be in a newsroom when it is banging away on a good story." He also explains that he felt very comfortable letting other editors handle the story while he was away in Paris.