National Public Radio ombudsman Alicia Shepard is criticizing NPR’s coverage of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s death. Too much coverage overall, she says, and too little Chappaquiddick.
In a column titled “Too Much Kennedy,” Shepard writes:
There was no doubt that Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts…
NPR’s All Things Considered program recently aired an interview with Jeremy Renner, star of the movie “The Hurt Locker,” about American soldiers who defuse bombs in Iraq. During a clip from the movie, NPR bleeped out a couple profanities — swear…
The Washington Post reports today that it has “initiated internal reviews to ensure that its business practices do not compromise its journalistic ethics when the newspaper organizes conferences or private events funded by sponsors.
The planned “salons” have led to widespread criticism of the…
Bob Richter, the public editor for the newspaper in San Antonio, reports:
The Express-News got snookered by Gov. Rick Perry’s office last week. Perry held a signing ceremony at the Alamo for legislation that did not require his signature. It was a proposed…
New York Times’ public editor Clark Hoyt weighed in this past weekend on recent “transgressions” by three Times journalists — Maureen Dowd, Thomas Friedman and Edmund Andrews. Hoyt describes the first two as “star columnists” and Andrews as an economics writer.
Phrases like…
The ombudsman — readers’ advocate — for the Washington Post has tackled that question a couple times in recent days. The question also was the focus of a study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, which…
The Virginian-Pilot newspaper is dropping its “public editor” position, a role similar to the “readers’ advocate” that existed at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for more than two decades until 2001.
Joyce Hoffmann of the Virginian-Pilot reports that the paper’s 34-year commitment to an…
The “readers representative” for the Cleveland Plain Dealer (a position like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s old Readers Advocate) has explained to that paper’s readers why Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s arrest didn’t make its Page One.
Basically, much like the Post-Dispatch, editors there strongly…
The Louisville Courier-Journal has become the latest paper to drop its “public editor.” The Post-Dispatch dropped its readers’ advocate position seven years ago.
Louisville’s Pam Platt wrote a farewell column Sunday. The Courier-Journal 40 years ago became the nation’s first newspaper to…
