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11.13.2009 11:13 am

Shame on the media for Fort Hood errors, E&P’s editor says

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The media has suffered two black eyes in its reporting of the Fort Hood rampage, the editor of the media journal Editor & Publisher says in a commentary.

E&P Editor Greg Mitchell writes:

With the publication of an interview with Sgt. Mark Todd, the…

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10.26.2009 10:57 pm

WSJ is rare exception as newspapers report falling circulations

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Wall Street Journal has overtaken USA Today as the largest circulation daily newspaper in the country, according to figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulation.

The Wall Street Journal may have celebrated — but for most newspapers the report was dismal.

The…

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08.25.2009 3:40 pm

Author: Media obsession with Hillary delegates helped Obama win

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A year ago this week, the media had a hand in elevating Barack Obama to the presidency, says author Greg Mitchell, who wrote the book “Why Obama Won.” Mitchell is also editor of the newspaper industry journal Editor & Publisher.

In…

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07.20.2009 9:36 pm

Boston’s only black-owned paper accepts loan from city

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A one-sentence item in the Nation Digest in Sunday’s Post-Dispatch reported:

The publisher of Boston’s only black-owned newspaper says he’ll accept a $200,000 loan from the city to avert the shutdown of the financially struggling weekly.

Here’s a bit more information:

“Only a…

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07.07.2009 11:35 am

E&P asks: Did media help push Sarah Palin into resigning?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

That’s the question of the day being posed by Editor & Publisher, “America’s oldest journal covering the newspaper industry.”

On its site today, E&P asks: “Did Media Help Push Sarah Palin Into Resigning as Governor?”

NEW YORK — Earlier this month we introduced…

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06.22.2009 8:03 pm

Have you stopped reading the newspaper in print?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The media journal Editor & Publisher asked that as its Question of the Day on its online site last Thursday, and the query made us curious about STLtoday.com readers.

E&P got a mix of responses, some saying they read newspapers for local news…

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06.08.2009 7:08 pm

Editorial cartoon of Sonia Sotomayor as a pinata is called racist

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The pinata cartoon

The pinata cartoon

Once again an editorial cartoon involving President Barack Obama is being criticized as racist. But this time, Obama’s not the focus of those offended.

The Oklahoma Women’s Coalition — among others — is  upset over a drawing of Sonia Sotomayor…

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05.14.2009 12:21 pm

Wall Street Journal staffers get rules on social networking and work

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Joe Strupp of Editor & Publisher reports that staffers at the Wall Street Journal have been given rules for professional conduct, including a long list of dos and don’ts for social networking.

Strupp quotes from an e-mail to employees from Deputy Managing…

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05.01.2009 5:35 pm

“Mission Accomplished” speech got positive coverage at first

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A 6th Anniversary Look Back at Media Coverage of ‘Mission Accomplished’” is the title of an article on the web site of Editor & Publisher, the media industry journal.

The retrospective is by E&P editor Greg Mitchell, who last year wrote a…

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04.29.2009 1:45 pm

How would you describe the Post-Dispatch’s swine flu coverage?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Has the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s coverage of the swine flu story been responsible? Would you characterize it as thorough, excessive or lacking?

The topic seems inescapable. Nationally, swine flu has been the top story on TV and radio news, and has…

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