What if advertising doesn’t recover with the economy?

What if the cyclical part of the advertising collapse does not come back after the end of the cycle?
Lad Paul, an old friend and colleague from the Des Moines Register who recently retired as executive editor of the New York Times News Service and is now consulting, asked that question recently on my Facebook page.  I [...]

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Community involvement poses ethical challenges for journalists

Balancing community involvement with journalistic detachment is a continuing challenge for many journalists.
If you become too involved with community affairs, you can’t write about them credibly. And if you are too detached from the community, you are less likely to know what’s going on and to understand context. The balance can be especially challenging in [...]

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