Before President Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa this past Saturday evening, I predicted that 2 percent of those in attendance would be wearing masks as a precaution against catching the COVID-19 coronavirus. (You can find my forecast here, on my “Go Figure: Making Numbers Count” page.) Having heard that the capacity was 20,000 at the […]
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A little over a year ago, I shared some insights from former USA Today editor Ken Paulson about the future of journalism. His remarks came at a New York Press Association conference where I was training reporters and editors. Currently the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Newseum in Washington, D.C., Paulson emphasized that […]
In yet another piece of News That Isn’t Really News comes a recent report from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. Pew asked more than 1,000 folks where they got “most of” their national and international news. In 2008, the Internet eclipsed print newspapers as their primary news source. You can […]
About 12 years ago, while I was on the news staff at The Courier News in Elgin, Ill., the newspaper began placing advertisements on Page 1. For what felt like months on end, we hawked a chance to win a free Daewoo. I didn’t like it at all. The “journalism purist” in me feared we […]
Unlike most Americans, I didn’t have a television on Sept. 11, 2001. So, unlike most Americans, I learned about the 9/11 attacks via another medium: an e-mail alerts from the New York Times. When I checked my e-mail that morning, this missive from the newspaper was my first inkling of the terrible events that […]