by Jim Pumarlo | May 16, 2005 | Recent Writing
Running pro-business letter can lead to disastrous consequences The Inlander/May 16, 2005 A letter arrives at a newspaper office, heaping great compliments about the excellent customer service at a local business. Better yet, the business is the hometown grocery...
by Jim Pumarlo | May 1, 2005 | Recent Writing
Don’t hide suicides from your readers Publishers Auxiliary/May 2005 Suicide reports stir the strongest emotions among grieving families and friends. These stories prompt the most strident complaints that newspapers are sticking their nose into personal affairs....
by Jim Pumarlo | Apr 1, 2005 | Recent Writing
Prep sports suspensions must be reported Quill Magazine/April 2005 Is the suspension of high school athletes newsworthy? Absolutely, and especially when it affects a game’s outcome. By identifying youths, are newspapers really looking out for their best welfare?...
by Jim Pumarlo | Apr 1, 2005 | Recent Writing
Newspapers need to print all the news Publishers’ Auxiliary/April 2005 Star athletes expect to read their names in the local newspaper after scoring three touchdowns or making a game-winning basket. But imagine the shock – to them and their parents – when the...
by Jim Pumarlo | Aug 23, 2001 | Top Five Columns
Was local resident upstaged by ‘paid’ letter-writer? Red Wing Republican EagleAug. 23, 2001 A reader wrote last week, denouncing the R-E for shortchanging the “honest comments of a longtime local reader” by publishing a rebuttal from an...
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