How do small-town journalists maintain credibility while covering public officials who may be their family and friends?
Matt Baron, a friend who works as a freelance journalist, journalism trainer and public relations consultant in Oak Park, Ill., passed that question along to me after a journalist facing that situation posed it at a recent workshop.
I answered [...]
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Avoiding ethical conflicts in small towns
Posted in Ethics, Journalism, tagged Chuck Hagel, journalism ethics, Matt Baron, Mike Buttry, Omaha World-Herald on May 7, 2009 | 10 Comments »
More attention for C3
Posted in Complete Community Connection on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Michele McLellan’s News Leadership 3.0 is the latest blog to call attention to the Blueprint for the Complete Community Connection.
She invited me to write about how newsroom culture would have to change to implement C3, so I wrote The 4th C: Culture, which Michele posted today. She earlier provided her own commentary on C3.
I also have [...]
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