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11.06.2009 3:29 pm

Newspapers varied in Page One display of Fort Hood massacre

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editors at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch decided shortly after the assault at Fort Hood Thursday to devote a major part of the front page to that story. We weighed whether to cut back to one or two local stories on…

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11.05.2009 12:07 pm

High School principal explains decision to pull stories on tattoos

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Community Section of Wednesday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch carried a short item from the Suburban Journals in which the principal of Timberland High School in Wentzville defended his decision last month to pull stories about tattoos from the student newspaper.…

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11.05.2009 11:17 am

Fox News was the runaway choice of election night viewers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Fox News was the clear choice of election night viewers, nearly doubling its normal prime-time audience, according to Nielsen ratings.

The Los Angeles Times reports on its Top of the Ticket politics blog:

If you followed the suspense of Tuesday’s elections, odds are…

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11.04.2009 1:45 pm

Were the elections a referendum on President Obama?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Were Tuesday’s elections a referendum on President Barack Obama?

Before Tuesday, it was easy to find both yes and no answers. Today, it’s still easy to find both.

From an analysis by CNN political editor Mark Preston:

Victories in New Jersey and Virginia…

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11.03.2009 1:46 pm

Tribune newspapers to test life without the Associated Press

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If the St. Louis Post-Dispatch went a  week without content from the Associated Press, would you notice?

The Chicago Tribune and other Tribune newspapers hope to learn just how essential Associated Press content is to them — and their readers.  Tribune media writer…

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11.03.2009 10:43 am

Numbers show increasingly partisan media audiences

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

John Harwood, in a New York Times Caucus blog titled “If Fox Is Partisan, It Is Not Alone,” presents evidence that “partisan fragmentation throughout America’s news media and their audiences has grown significantly.”

Harwood — noting that he appears on CNBC and…

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11.02.2009 9:50 pm

Aide to Jerry Brown resigns over secret recording of reporters

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

An aide to California Attorney General Jerry Brown has resigned after admitting that he secretly taped telephone conversations with reporters. The aide said that Brown and others in the office were unaware of the recordings.

According to the Associated Press, communication…

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11.02.2009 6:49 pm

Denver Post beat writers no longer predict outcomes of games

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports writers at the Denver Post no longer predict the outcomes of games involving teams they cover.  Westworld.com reports that the Post’s editor, Greg Moore, says it’s a matter of ethics.

Moore told the Westworld news blog:

“Sports writers are no different than other…

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10.29.2009 2:16 pm

Schwarzenegger’s office denies using coded obscenity in veto letter

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office denies that it used a coded veto message to send the f-bomb to San Francisco assemblyman Tom Ammiano.

According to Chronicle columnists Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross:

A straight reading of the guv’s letter laments…

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10.29.2009 11:16 am

Are our unedited blogs resulting in erroneous information online?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The author of a new book on journalism ethics (The Ethical Journalist: Making Responsible Decisions in the Pursuit of News) says he thinks newspapers are making a huge mistake by allowing their staffers to blog without an editor reading behind them.

In…

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