At the opening of a recent Institute webinar, “Covering the Federal Takeover,” attorney Fritz Mulhauser, chair of the D.C. Open Government Coalition’s legal committee, told the audience of journalists and PR professionals that “the work is never ending.” By “the work,” Mulhauser meant the efforts that advocates like him are making to ensure the public…
The National Press Club Journalism Institute partnered with URL Media to produce a summit focused on lessons learned from Black and Brown media organizations’ coverage of the 2024 presidential election.
Editors and reporters work as a team. The reporter seeks to uncover the truth, gather evidence, and connect the dots. She stitches the information together; Sometimes it comes out looking like a quilt, or a patchwork, or a vast array of squares loosely connected. The editor seeks to discern the pattern in the reporter’s writing….
The connections between press, politics, and communications sometimes may appear as a three-legged stool. But the ethical seat you sit on depends on what role you play and how you handle the information you provide. Consider a relatively recent example: Former Phoenix Fox 10 news anchor Kari Lake is now the GOP nominee for governor…
Bloomberg News recently retracted a story accusing some Fox News executives and hosts of failing to hand over documents in a lawsuit. In seeking comment regarding the story, Bloomberg News gave Fox News 18 minutes to respond before publication, according to a Fox News spokesperson quoted by Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple. Journalists seek…
A Supreme Court draft ruling. A 10-year-old rape victim’s abortion. Journalists have relied on single sources to tell challenging stories in recent months. In most situations, the more reporting and sourcing a journalist can offer readers, viewers, and listeners, the more ethical the journalist’s reporting becomes. More sources provide more opportunities for verification. One source…