Archive: Dec 2005

Courtroom Testimony Offers an Excellent Road Map for Reporters

By Paul R. Gross• Opinion• December 15, 2005

‘… the usual “he said, she said” quotes I read in press accounts have little or nothing to do with the actual issues raised by the Pennsylvania case.’ Read more

Creating a New Town Square

By Leslie Dreyfous McCarthy• Features• December 15, 2005

‘It’s a locus for the kind of civic trust and independence on which the idea of journalism, indeed democracy, is based.’ Read more

Drawing the Mood of New Orleans

By Steve Kelley• Features• December 15, 2005

‘Cartoon ideas presented themselves, but none embraced the gravity of the situation.’ Read more

Science and Journalism Fail to Connect

By Dan Fagin• Opinion• December 15, 2005

‘How can we expect Americans to know anything beyond what they happen to remember from science class? Journalists certainly don’t tell them.’ Read more

Defining a Journalist’s Function

By William F. Woo• Features• December 15, 2005

In one approach to finding a definition, it turns out that being a journalist is about doing journalism. Read more

Bringing Iraqi Voices Into the Conversation About Their Country

By Patrick J. McDonnell• Opinion• December 15, 2005

A Washington Post correspondent’s book ‘is not a policy screed or a compilation of talking heads and experts.’ Read more

Reconnecting With the Audience

By Clyde H. Bentley• Features• December 15, 2005

‘What they say—not what we think—is what counts.’ Read more

Iraq’s Emerging Press

By Maggy Zanger• Opinion• December 15, 2005

Providing the public with ‘accurate, complete and fair information was, and remains for most, an unknown concept.’ Read more

Citizens Media: Has It Reached a Tipping Point?

By Jan Schaffer• Features• December 15, 2005

New media initiatives emerge when citizens feel ‘shortchanged, bereft or angered by their available media choices.’ Read more

Winter 2005: Words & Reflections Introduction 1

By Melissa Ludtke• Opinion• December 15, 2005

“Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War,” a book written by Washington Post correspondent Anthony Shadid, who won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting from Iraq, “is filled with the kind of insights—and personal anecdotes—that … Read more