Running out of things to say (along with health issues) was one of the reasons I gave when I informed people last year that I would retire on my 65th birthday. Today is my 65th birthday. And this is the 17,071st, and last, NewsCut post.
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Paul Tosto applauded, supported, defended, and created a fair amount of the material that found its way onto these pages, and he did so without getting or needing attention. At least until today. Read more →
Everybody has a breaking point and for a TV meteorologist in Ohio, it’s The Bachelorette. Read more →
Can 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 →
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 future of southeast Minnesota’s largest media operation has seemed obvious for the last few years: the Rochester Post Bulletin was likely to be a casualty of the newspaper depression. Read more →
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 →
News media from as far away from Tokyo showed up to document the Warroad Pioneer’s demise because, apparently, even the people of Tokyo care more about Warroad than the people of Warroad. Read more →
To see an example of how humans hate the disruption of change, look no further than the comments attached the New York Times’ story on the new Morning Edition music for NPR. Read more →
Public Radio listeners, appropriately so, are sticklers for accuracy. So it’s at least a little amusing to read this week’s NPR Public Editor (formerly ombudsman) column which tackles the complaints of listeners who object to reporters and hosts pronouncing things correctly — specifically, non-English names.
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If a person is walking naked down the streets of Crookston, it may take longer before the residents can read about it in the newspaper.
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This is Lyra McKee, who was shot and killed while trying to do her job on Thursday. She’s a reporter. Read more →
This is the darkness that is descending. Read more →
For obvious reasons, journalists get a lot more worked up about changes in the Associated Press Stylebook — the defacto writing guide for newspeople — than normal people, but occasionally a change signals a cultural or ethical shift in a buttoned-down profession. 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 →
Bob Collins