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The Indianapolis Star investigation that led to the imprisonment of Dr. Larry Nassar began with a tip. In March 2016 a source suggested that reporter Marisa Kwiatkowski look at how [...]

The article focuses on the issue of freedom of the press in Ghana. It informs that journalists face risks of arrest, detention, and torture from state agencies like the police, military, secret service, and political operatives of ruling parties. It also pays attention to the need to take action and to guarantee the safety of media in the country by the government.

The article focuses author's experience as an editor and publisher where author tries to bring the right mix of sensibilities to the challenging financial times facing newspaper. Author presents his obligation to find a path to a more stable financial future, to look for creative ways to fund our journalism; and presents comment on getting a stable source of revenue from subscribers. Author also comments on his job job to be sure their readers and advertisers feel the same way.

The article focuses on the European Investigative Collaboration (EIC) Network as a decentralized platform aimed to protect the security of documents used in cross-boarder reporting. It mentions that the EIC network follows its framework from high-profile leaks including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers that have been collaboratively investigated by journalists from different countries. It cites the partners of EIC.network including El Mundo of Spain and Mediapart of France.

This article discusses the continued decline of available jobs for cartoonists in the U.S. Frequent reorganizations are not unusual in the news industry but, unlike reporters, photographers and editors, editorial cartoon jobs are increasingly left unfilled or are eliminated entirely after a cartoonist leaves a paper. Media consolidation, newspapers folding, tightening budgets--all have contributed to the erosion of viable outlets. Bottom-line mentality and a concern for slipping circulation can drive publishers and editors to fear controversy of any sort. many editors would rather not risk irritating readers to begin with and quickly fold when uproar somehow manages to land on their desk. Far worse, at least to some cartoonists, is the editor who insists on watering down the commentary in order to be equal and balanced, altering content to such a degree the point of the cartoon is lost. Given the job market, it is the rare cartoonist indeed who resigns on principle. More often they are pushed out. One bright spot over the years has been family-owned papers that, whatever their circulation, often had a local cartoonist on staff as a matter of civic pride. Yet even among independent papers with a long tradition of editorial cartooning, the squeeze is on. Whether or not they can find a full-time job, most cartoonists still continue to draw. I he majority of people getting published today have cobbled together a career of sorts, freelancing, doing cartoons on the side, or working for a newspaper or magazine in other capacities with the opportunity to get in an occasional cartoon. Even if they have been cut loose by a paper, many scrape by with freelance work while continuing to provide material for their syndicate. A few have never worked for a newspaper, instead building up a full-time job through syndication.

This article features the latimes.com, the redesigned Web site of Los Angeles Times newspaper. Perhaps the most significant turning point in this new venture came this summer 2005, when editors who had spent their careers on the print side were asked to venture into the digital world of journalism and think about how to attract more readers. Even after an earlier, much-publicized redesign, latimes.com looked like the paper did. The front-page stories of the newspaper, mostly foreign and national news became lead stories on the homepage of the latimes.com. Web visitors could find little on the site that was not lifted directly from the paper's pages. Latimes.com, which is fifth among U.S. newspaper sites in the number of visitors it draws, generates revenues that run into the tens of millions of dollars and draws 5.5 million unique viewers a month.

This article presents the author's view about starting and running the Lakota Times newspaper to serve the people of a sovereign nation, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Many of the people I brought on board in the early years of publication, starting in 1981, spoke English as a second language. Most grew up speaking Lakota and learned English after attending Bureau of Indian Affairs' and Indian mission boarding schools. We faced an additional problem not faced by most newspapers: Our stories had to stand in contrast to the local and national media's constant misrepresentation of Indian people. And many of our stories did challenge the authenticity of local and national articles. At the time we started The Lakota times, the trust of the Indian people in the media was at an all-time low. Since the Lakota Times was located on the reservation and most of its readers were members of the Ogala Sioux Tribe, as the paper's editor I allowed reporters to integrate into their news stories Lakota words and colloquialisms common into their schools and in their tiospayes. We often produced stories in two languages. Some reporters would return to the office after interviewing a Lakota speaker and their text would be almost entirely in Lakota. I also trained my reporters not to be overly aggressive, because this went against those things we held sacred in our culture. I started a weekly paper to dispel the perception that American Indians are the least understood and the most misunderstood of all U.S. citizens and to convey an authentic sense of the Indian nations' reality.

This section presents a compilation of news items about prominent personalities in the field of journalism in the U.S., from 1955 to 2005. In 1957, Burnell A. Heinecke has retired from the Illinois State Treasure's office where he was working as administrative assistant. Heinecke spent 23 years with the Chicago Sun-Times, including 10 years as the paper's Chicago bureau chief. He also served as editor of Heinecke News Service. In 1969, John Zakarian retired as editorial page editor of The Hartford Courant. Zakarian began his journalism career as a reporter for The Associated Press and has been with the Courant since 1977. He is the recipient of the Walker Stone award for editorial writing and an Overseas Press Club award for his 1987 editorial series on the Middle East. Zakarian is a past president and life member of the National Conference of Editorial Writers. Eli Reed has been appointed as a clinical professor for the School of Journalism at the University of Texas in Austin. Starting in January 1983, he will be teaching advanced projects in photojournalism for their graduate program. Reed taught a weeklong workshop at the university called The Moving Image for the graduate and undergraduate students.

The section discusses several issues on journalism. The four documentaries of Robert L. Drew bout U.S. President John F. Kennedy aired for the first time together on The History Channel on November 22, 2003, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy. Bill Woestendiek retired in 1995 as director of the School of Journalism at the University of Southern California, Annenberg. Hamilton Productions continues to produce both corporate and on-air television programming, including the "Watch on Washington" series. John Hughes, on leave as a tenured professor of journalism and director of the International Media Studies Program at Brigham Young University, is editor and chief operating officer of the Deseret Morning News. Henry Raymont spends each spring teaching a seminar on U.S. relations with Latin America. Wayne Wood; Saul Friedman who founded and writes a weekly column on senior issues for "Newsday" newspaper, suffered a stroke that partially paralyzed his right arm and leg. Wayne Woodlief, a political writer who has been with the "Boston Herald" newspaper is retiring from full-time duty at the paper after the Herald announced a series of buyouts, retirements and layoffs.

The article presents the views of the author on how the news organizations are striving to survive when the U.S. president Donald Trump is not willing to defend the crucial role of journalism in a democracy. It further states that President Trump and his allies have attacked on journalism on its polluting influence on US and other stable democracies. It further states that the paper is racing against time and government forces for creating new and effective subscription models.

This article offers insights on the status of the media market in various countries. In Mexico, even Reforma, the popular among the newspapers in the country, is no match for The New York Times newspaper. However, the publishing is trying, and so are Mexican journalists on many papers and magazines, despite a weak economy, persistent poverty, shifting standards, implicit and explicit journalistic corruption, and an audience that often seems mugged by television soaps and unable or unwilling to read. In Tokyo, a problem facing news agencies is not on circulation, rather on its stultification. In this country, the political and journalistic poverty is a poverty of the imagination. In China, there was a lack of real jobs in Chinese journalism. In others, particularly in Western Europe, editors and producers have some of the same worries, but hardly the angst. Journalism in Europe, particularly in England, Germany and France, still retains much of the verve and excitement of the Great Game. American journalists are sometimes viewed as taking themselves just seriously in places where sell papers remains the object of the game. In Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, journalists are trying to develop standards for reporting in societies where, for more than 50 years, no real reporting existed at all. In those places, young men and women with an inclination towards journalism often have found themselves shunted into government-ministry jobs or to obscure niches in academia.

This article presents a narrative of the author's experience with newspaper job interviews. The only job I have ever wanted was to draw political cartoons for a living and that is what I do. I am that rare creature, the editorial cartoonist who can make a full-time living solely from syndication. Nonetheless, I do not have what I really want: a job at a newspaper, where I would work with editors and journalists on cartoons on the state and local issues that resonate strongly with readers. My cartoons are fairly well known since they are published in more than a hundred papers. As a result, I have been interviewed three times for positions at major U.S. newspapers. Those close hiring calls serve as parables for the state of the industry. In 1995, the Patriot-News flew me to the Pennsylvania capital to meet for lunch with the paper's features editor, editor in chief, and publisher. I left the meeting feeling positive about my chances. The features editor informed me that rather than hire an editorial cartoonist they have decided to go with a sports-writer. The Patriot-News already had 6 sportswriters on staff. But such are the mysterious priorities of editors and publishers. Around the same time an opening occurred at the Asbury Park Press. The executive editor worked his way down a list of boilerplate questions, everything went satisfactorily until he asked if the paper will see protesters yelling about a cartoon that I drew. I said it is not my intention to offend readers but if an idea is worth expressing, I do not think I should self-censor because of that possibility. I knew I had blown what should have been a simple no. But taking a job under impossible conditions would invariably get me fired. I still dream and wait for the telephone to ring with the news that a paper wants to talk to me and, maybe this time, actually hire me.

This article focuses on several components of a transparent newsroom. In Open News Meetings, The Spokesman-Review's daily news meetings are open to all news staff and to the public. Visitors make appointments with the editor's executive assistant. This brings newsroom staff together with readers who have an interest in contributing to daily news decisions. Moreover, in Part-Time Ombudsman, the paper contracts with a local college professor for op-ed columns once or twice a month. Ombudsman reports to the editorial page editor. The contract arrangement provides periodic, independent review of Spokesman-Review journalism and gives readers a place to take complaints for independent review and response. Much of his work never appears in print as he facilitates communication between disgruntled readers and staff.

This section presents an updated version of the speech given by Anthony Lewis, a former New York Times columnist, on March 2, 2004, at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in a conference called Weapons of Mass Destruction, National Security, and a Free Press. Lewis began his remarks by referring to past interactions involving the press and government--notably the government's attempts to suppress publication of the Pentagon Papers and The Progressive magazine's article about the H-bomb. Lewis discussed the case of Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen who have been imprisoned and held as an enemy combatant without trial. He also commented on the sweep of aliens ordered by Attorney General Ashcroft after September 11, 2001, as well as the press coverage of civil liberties. Lewis then enumerated the reasons for the relatively tepid response to the incursions on civil liberties since September 11. He said that the impulse to get on the national security team in the face of a terrorist threat had a particularly egregrious example about a month after September 11, when five major television networks broadcast a taped message from Osama bin Laden. He suggested that a journalist's duty is not only to report with courage what underlies government decisions to send U.S. citizens off to die of foreign shot and shell, but government actions menacing the constitutional protections that have kept the people free.

The article reports on the decision of journalist Ann Simmons to move to New Orleans, Louisiana for the "Los Angeles Times" to cover the many issues involved in the rebuilding of the city after Hurricane Katrina. She has been the paper's roving state reporter since 2004 and has been with the paper since 1997.

This article reflects on the life of a former journalist. She left The Philadelphia Enquirer publishing in July 2001. It was by choice. Like other reporters and editors who left the publishing in successive series of buyouts, she could not bear to watch the paper affected by the decisions of Knight Ridder, Inc., its parent company. In the interest of higher profit margins, the Ridder side of the corporation embarked on a strategy that eventually affected its foreign bureaus, closed most of its national bureaus, shrunk the news hole and reduced the physical size of the paper, giving it the look of a tabloid. Her departure from the Inquirer marked the end of a 30-year career in print journalism--first at The Oregon Times, a magazine of investigative reporting; then at The Oregonian, where her reporting played a key role in overturning a one-way desegregation plan, and finally at the Inky, where she had the adventures of a lifetime. Among them were reconstructing a 46-day strike at the publishing; witnessing the devastation of the AIDS pandemic in inner-city American and in the developing world.

This article deals with the significance of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to journalists in the U.S. covering the 2003 war in Iraq. According to Pete Weitzel, former managing editor for The Miami Herald who is now freedom of information coordinator for the newly formed Coalition of Journalists for Open Government, in this era of greater government secrecy more barricades have been erected that prevent access to government records by journalists. Not only has news reporting on this issue been limited and tepid, according to Weitzel, but there has been no coordinated information gathering or strategic planning about secrecy and reporters' access to information within the journalism community or among its organizations. Seth Rosenfeld, an investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, describes his two-decade fight, involving three lawsuits filed under the FOIA to secure Federal Bureau of Investigation files about information the agency had compiled about those who were involved with protest activities at the University of California at Berkeley during the 1950's and 1960's. Rosenfeld's experience demonstrates that FOIA requests are most likely to succeed when they grow out of and are informed by regular reporting. York Daily Record/Sunday News reporters are encouraged by editors to make wise and frequent use of FOIA requests to supplement their investigative work. Each one, writes Rob Walters, the paper's business editor, computer-assisted reporting editor, and investigative projects editor, is a lesson in how the process works and how to use the act successfully. In the paper's coverage of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's delayed notification about the threat of a terrorist attack on nearby Three Mile Island's Unit 1 nuclear reactor and the county's grand jury investigation of the York's 1969 racial riots and murders, Walters explains how reporters used FOIA requests to bring previously withheld information and records to readers' attention.

The author ponders on the demise of journalism and the significance of the newsroom of the newspaper "The Republican" in Springfield, Massachusetts. He asserts that the market for clear and sharp writing about current events is unlikely to disappear. He claims that editorial leaders at majority of daily papers in the U.S. failed to keep up with the pace of technological change. He adds that solid reporting and realistic storytelling are thriving despite varied methods used to deliver journalistic work.

The article provides information on the decision of Bill Marimow to resign from his job as vice president for news and information at National Public Radio in October 1983. He had supervised the work of 350 employees and 36 domestic and international bureaus. He was offered the job of editing his hometown paper "The Philadelphia Inquirer" in the following month. This newspaper launched his journalism career during the time when Gene Roberts was editor of the newspaper. He accepted the job and now returns as top editor at a metropolitan newspaper.

This article profiles journalist Jerome Aumente. Aumente has conducted several workshops for journalists, including one in Belgrade and Nis, Serbia for print and electronic journalists. He is currently finishing his book "From Ink on Paper to the Internet: Past Challenges and Future Transformations for New Jersey's Newspapers." He is also serving as a program evaluator for a program at the University of Missouri and Moscow State University Schools of Journalism. He and his wife, Mary, live in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia.

The author examines the implications of the adoption of digital technology at newsrooms for journalism. He predicts that the migration of news media to the Internet will start to become a background reality. Although paper publishing will not be eliminated totally, it will become a niche artifact due to the technological superiority of online distribution for multimedia presentation. Its huge potential for interactivity will develop the Internet as the major venue for news and topical commentary.

This article shares the observations of cartoonists, editorial page editors and observers of cartooning about how the long-time role that cartoons have played in journalism and democracy is being affected by the preference of newspapers to publish readily available work of syndicated cartoonists instead of hiring a full-time editorial cartoonist. Matt Davies, staff cartoonist for The Journal News, contended that there is an inherent shortsightedness to this buy-a-cartoon model that many newspapers are turning to. There is, he argued, value in having a good and consistent cartoonist's voice in the paper, and this value was well understood by earlier generations of newspaper editors and publishers. J.P. Trostle, cartoonist and author of Attack of the Political Cartoonists, explained that the reason editorial cartoonists' jobs are not being filled is the controversy that strong editorial cartoons can inspire in readers and the fear editors and publishers have of this, especially in times of decreasing circulation. John Zakarian, retired editorial page editor of The Hartford Courant, said what he has learned in this 24 years is that if an editor is the type of person who abhors volcanic eruptions from a cartoonist over the editing of his or her work, do not hire one. Instead, rely on syndicated cartoonists over whom they have far more effective control through the process of choosing one from many purchased inexpensively. What is lost, however, in doing this is the local flavor that they must have in fully engaging audiences.

The section introduces a series of articles on news reporting and journalism including how news organizations look for ways to unlock the mysteries of how to connect with reluctant consumers. "Voices" periodical has built reputation on showing teens as they really are, not how someone wants them to be or thinks they should be. Among the myths on young adult newspaper readership is that publishers used to cling to the notion that people acquired the newspaper habit as the got older. Publishers can connect with Pennsylvania State University students by hiring a young staff to publish "Blue," a weekly youth-oriented wraparound section and figuring out how to market the product. To compete with the Internet and have a chance at attracting young people, newspapers must offer a combination of goods such as authentic and edgy news coverage, more international news and stories with more young voices. There is an extensive research done by Gannett Company Inc. and points to approaches some Gannett papers have taken to attract young readers. It was evident that if students were going to write for a newspaper, they had to learn and read one.

Discusses the benefits of transparency for journalism practice. Recent reexaminations published in The New York Times and The Washington Post that probe into flaws in their coverage during the months leading up to the Iraq War bring to mind the journalism of the cold war era and early days of the fighting in Vietnam. As time passed, it became apparent that the American government used the press to deceive its people. Once the press began to provide a more accurate picture of the fighting in Vietnam, public attitudes began to change. Disclosures in the Pentagon Papers, first published by The New York Times, presented an archive of secret government decisions made by several administrations that led the country into war in Southeast Asia. Implications drawn from this information remind us that those who occupy the White House are often more interested in building public support for its policies than in giving citizens a fully accurate picture. The experience of being misled about the Vietnam War--most notably the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution--by government officials has weighed heavily on Murrey Marder, who was diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post during that time. According to Marder, he is convinced that if the American Congress and press had performed their proper constitutional functions of questioning--and counter-balancing--the executive branch, the U.S. never would have gone to war in Vietnam, says Marder.

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