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Michael R. Fancher

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Michael R. Fancher was until 2008 the longtime executive editor of The Seattle Times. In 2009, he was a fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

The Public and Journalists: They Disagree on Core Values

In considering the modern relevance of Walter Williams’s “Journalist’s Creed,” it was well documented that people who aren’t journalists held increasingly negative attitudes toward news organizations. For example, The Pew…
September 16, 2009

The 21st Century Journalist’s Creed

A former newspaper editor urges journalists to ‘let go of the sense that we have control and recognize how much better public service journalism can be when we accept the…
September 16, 2009