Local News

Response: What’s Often Missing Is Desire

Joyce Purnick speaks for many a metro and state editor when she describes the strain of keeping up with the news while watching for the big stories. At a midsize…
March 15, 1998
Melanie Sill

Response: Make Enterprise Reporting An Ongoing Part of Newspapers Mission

Joyce Purnick is right about almost everything, which means that a lot of the rest of us—and maybe even Purnick herself—should be rethinking some of the things that we do.She’s…
March 15, 1998
Anthony Marro

For State and Local Government, The Key Is Sufficient Resources

My assignment: examine the state of “aggressive journalism” in state and local government—whether we do enough of it, whether we are hard-nosed enough, whether we do what we do well…
March 15, 1998
Joyce Purnick

TV Journalists Should Take Responsibility

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March 15, 1998
Frank Magid

Misappropriation of Public Resource

Most of the seasoned journalists, that is, people who began in the 80’s or were studying in the 80’s.. .feel very uncomfortable about what’s happening. And they do not speak…
March 15, 1998
Arthur Kent

Spring 1998: State & Local Governments Introduction

The second paper on watchdog journalism concerns state and local governments. As Washington has reduced its control of important functions, such as welfare, state and local governments have increased their…
March 15, 1998

Response: Eye Always on Bureaucracies

The late Peter Kihss was one of the greatest American reporters of the 20th Century. Year after year, on a huge variety of subjects, he produced spot news and investigative…
March 15, 1998
David Burnham