by Jim Pumarlo | Sep 1, 2007 | Recent Writing
Editorials can serve variety of purposes Minnesota Newspaper Association Bulletin/September 2007 A newspaper has a responsibility, say, to identify all stores fined for selling cigarettes to underage youths, especially if the fines are assessed at a city council...
by Jim Pumarlo | Mar 11, 2007 | Uncategorized
Press rights: citizens’ everyday eyes and ears Distributed as a guest editorial by the Minnesota Newspaper Association in observance of Sunshine Week, March 11-17, 2007 Convene a discussion about press rights, and most people likely conjure up scenarios of...
by Jim Pumarlo | Mar 1, 2007 | Recent Writing
Don’t close the books on the 2006 elections The American Editor – American Society of Newspaper Editors/March 2007 Mention election coverage in the aftermath of the midterm contests, and most newsrooms will likely turn a collective deaf ear. Yet this is...
by Jim Pumarlo | Jan 8, 2007 | Recent Writing
Candidate endorsements still provide benefits to newspapers The Inlander/Jan. 8, 2007 Quiz a roomful of editors and reporters on their most memorable editorials. The noteworthy ones invariably deliver messages targeted toward specific decision-makers who are in...
by Jim Pumarlo | Dec 1, 2006 | Recent Writing
Rules of Endorsement Editor & Publisher Shoptalk (on-line edition)/December 2006 Coverage of the coming 2008 elections is already building. But it’s vital to consider, at the same time, that editorial endorsements in local elections are becoming increasingly...
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