Tag Archives: watchdog

We’re in the business of ‘filling knowledge gaps’

By Julie Starr | Published: July 26, 2011
I like these bullet points from a post written by Joy Mayer after she saw Elements of Journalism author Tom Rosenstiel speak at an Association of Alternative Weeklies  conference. They strike me as helpful in changing the way we think about journalism – especially in established newsrooms where old habits – and entrenched thinking – [...]
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With a newspaper gone, who’s the watchdog and where do advertisers go?

By Julie Starr | Published: March 23, 2009
In response to handwringing over who will keep local government honest should the local newspaper fall over, Seamus McCauley of Virtual Economics suggests one way to measure just how effective the newspaper's been as a watchdog:
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