The newspaper industry and individual newspapers could well benefit today from the assistance of public-relations firms that are able to tell the story of newspapers that they themselves unfortunately don't — that they produce news coverage unlike any other medium.
On Tuesday, Republicans came up with another self-serving offer, proposing to open a few government departments whose closures are likely to produce negative news coverage, such as Veterans Affairs and the national parks.
More obsessed with the collapse of the American economy and the political squirming it produces (television news coverage burbles incessantly in the background, cost-cutting inflects even the murderer's trade) than any underworld glamorisation, this presents its protagonists as bottom-rung flotsam – dumb, obnoxious and poisonously dispossessed.
As a bisexual woman, I frequent LGBTQ parties and events, hang out at lesbian and gay bars, and even produce LGBTQ news coverage for my job.
One would think that major events like genocide, global warming and two wars would trump these senseless starry-eyed stories and encourage -- not discourage -- the newspapers to take the bull by the horns and produce better news coverage.
In 1974, I had gone to work for public television at a company that produced news and public affairs programs, including live coverage of the Senate Watergate and House impeachment hearings.
Last year, the American Society of Newspaper Editors expressed concern (pdf) that "if we're not able to accelerate diversity inside newsrooms, and if we miss opportunities to produce more compelling news coverage, then the challenge of connecting with communities becomes that much more difficult".
He was recently named inaugural senior fellow at Hunter College's Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging, where he'll produce data-driven enterprise news coverage of the forces shaping the lives of Americans 50 and older.
Developed effective relationships with over 12 major print & electronic news organizations, producing 75% increase in positive news coverage of committee operations.
So we read through the entire hearing transcript and contemporaneous local and national news coverage to produce a comprehensive account of what actually happened.
