“We were not going to quote Trump making his absurd claims about the election. We weren’t going to quote any of his many false statements. We were not going to give them oxygen.”
Should the worst moment of your life also be your top Google search result? Your “permanent record” is sometimes more about old news stories than court records, and newspapers are increasingly rethinking their responsibilities.
The owners of Cleveland’s Plain Dealer have been bleeding its (unionized) newsroom in favor of its (non-union) website for nearly a decade. While organizers have made major gains in new newsrooms, it’s a stinging defeat on labor’s home turf.
“I didn’t see how we could justify standing on tradition when it was causing that kind of suffering…It really comes down to: How long does somebody have to pay for a mistake?”
Portland’s Oregonian is up next in the newspaper chain’s cut-print-days-and-newsroom-staff strategy. But does it make sense — and can its leaders execute the plan?
Phelps, Andrew. "The AP brings a quasi-competitor into the fold." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 6 Dec. 2011. Web. 27 May. 2023.
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Chicago
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