Bob CollinsCan a state legislator be both a lawmaker and a journalist? The short answer is ‘no.’ That’s also the long answer, but a North Dakota public radio organization and a newspaper in Grand Forks are going to give it a try. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: journalism
If you say the word ‘bias’ as applied to journalism, most people will automatically frame it in politics. But a journalist’s piece on Medium this week reveals a bipartisan reality: gender bias.
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The full promise of the internet remains relatively elusive and a decision by the producers of the public radio talk show — 1A — are the latest to prove it. Read more →
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, makes an excellent point: shouldn’t the media be learning something from the way it reported the material stolen by Russia and used to influence the election in 2016? Read more →
This is Lyra McKee, who was shot and killed while trying to do her job on Thursday. She’s a reporter. Read more →
It’s really not that people don’t want solid news reporting; they just don’t want to pay for it and they’re going to keep that insistence, apparently, until it becomes a moot point. Soon. Read more →
Paul TostoTelling reporters they can’t say something is almost never a good strategy. Monday morning’s Exhibit A; Julian Assange. Read more →
I’m taking a pass on a Top 10 list this year because I’m not that crazy about 9 of the top 10, reflective, perhaps, of my inability to get out more this year, due to declining health and the difficulty of keeping the blog updated when I’m not in a position to do so. Like it or not, page views are the coin of the realm for people who need to justify their existence as bloggers. Read more →
There’s so much to love in this video today from Stillwater Area Schools. Read more →
Too many journalists never learn an important lesson and from the sound of press releases flying around about a TV show investigating the disappearance of Iowa anchorwoman Jodi Huisentruit, who hasn’t been seen since disappearing 23 years ago, a common mistake is about to be repeated. Read more →
For sure, the business is hard economically, and has been since Marconi. But over the years its method of advancement also provided networks with a steady stream of seasoned journalists. Only the best survived the winnowing process. Read more →
We are in the time of year when we organize annual lists of top stories. Time today issued its list of the 100 best photos of 2018. MPR News photojournalist Evan Frost made the impressive cut with this one. If you don’t know the story of the raccoon, we welcome you from your slumber. It’s Read more →
Having patted himself on the back (according to White House sources) for keeping a civil tongue during the days of services for former President George H. W. Bush this week, President Trump returned to the security blanket of Twitter late Thursday.
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Journalists and presidents have sparred for far longer than many of us have been alive, but for a few old-timers who still remember the Nixon administration, it was hard not to take a trip down memory lane to see how the things have changed in the category of ‘shocking’ at presidential news conferences. Read more →
If you want election results next Wednesday morning, you apparently won’t find them in the newspapers of one of the biggest chains in the country, and that’s just the way Gannett wants it. Read more →