Watchdog

In the name of ‘homeland security,’ the work of journalists is made harder.

In his introduction to the Nieman Foundation Watchdog Conference held at Harvard University in September, Curator Bob Giles described how and why the Watchdog project was created. He invited Murrey…

Photo © Colin Franzen/U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism,Center for Photography.Bill Kovach, Curator, Nieman Foundation: “We have created a communication system with the new technology during the last two decades…

Steven Brill, Publisher of Brill’s Content, told conference participants what he would do to keep candidates accountable and the public interested in coverage of issues.Bill Kovach asked me to think…

Cartoon by David Horsey. Reprinted with permission, Seattle Post-Intelligencer.Sheila Tate, President, Powell Tate, and former press secretary: “I’ve had the field producer for a major network come to me in…

Photo by Greg Behar/U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Center for Photography.By a margin of 59 percent to 34 percent, participants in Pew Center survey said they think editors care…

David Broder, columnist, The Washington Post: “The harder part is how we can help voters figure out who the hell these candidates really are and how they might operate. I…

Ron Faucheux, Editor in Chief, Campaigns & Elections: “[Politicians] are not really complaining about the questions the press is asking. What they’re complaining about is that nobody’s covering their answers.…

Andrew Kohut, Director of The Pew Research Center for The People & The Press, addressed the question of ‘What would the people ask?’ by sharing results of a September 1999…

Are members of the press asking candidates the right questions? What should those questions be? A number of panelists, including journalists and politicians, had some ideas about specific topics that…