Media Coverage Shifts From Looking Abroad to Looking Next Door

Before you can discuss what might be done [with newspapers] you have to look at the business proposition that you’re dealing with…. The people who own these journalistic institutions, by…

Media Ownership and Government Dictate the Ways This Former Dictator Is Covered

Which Way They Go Could Depend on What Journalists Know and How They React

There has been more than a little talk lately about how well the editorial and business sides of journalism work together. Since I am at least in part the cause…

“The chief business of the American people is business.” So it was back in 1925 when President Calvin Coolidge offered that now famous aphorism about America’s fevered, overreaching economy in…

Once upon a time the editor of a daily newspaper edited.There’s little risk of that happening now. The top newsroom manager probably has a title like vice president and executive…

… It is my utter conviction that newspapers are a business and, since their production is a team process, no department can be immune from the fact. They are expensive…

When the Personal Becomes Part of One’s Profession

An elderly ethnic Albanian woman from Kosovo comforts a small girl in a school in Bob, a village some 50 kms. south of Pristina, as another weeps, Tuesday, March 2,…