by Jim Pumarlo | Oct 30, 2007 | Recent Writing
Election 2008: Your Guide to Excellent Campaign Coverage Quill/October/November 2007 Covering elections is hard work. Considering the hyper-partisanship of readers, the dozens of interest groups knocking on your door and the demands of new technologies, it’s amazing...
by Jim Pumarlo | Sep 1, 2007 | Recent Writing
Vibrant editorial pages – a community’s conscience The Inlander/September 2007 Quiz any group of editors and you’ll find little disagreement. Local news is the franchise of community newspapers. School board actions are more important than congressional deliberations....
by Jim Pumarlo | Sep 1, 2007 | Recent Writing
Business news much more than grand openings Publishers Auxiliary/September 2007 A discussion of business news inevitably prompts editors to focus on routine Main Street occurrences. A clothing store celebrates its grand opening. A restaurant opens, offering a...
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 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...
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