When Journalism Fails

We've all watched/read stories on the disaster in Palestine, Ohio.   One contributing factor that probably won't get discussed:  the...

As we watch the Congressional hearings, one thing is missing:  how the failure of the press made this tragedy of Trump possible. For years, ...

Two Ohio public radio stations - WKSU and WCPN - plan to merge.   That's a major story.   It's a story neither newsroom did.   Why? ...

Ask any media corporation if it cares about how women are treated and it will offer one bromide after another voicing concern.   But for too...

There are two questions the Washington press corps must ask.   And please, if anyone has ever heard either of these questions being asked, ...

Karl Idsvoog spent a career as an investigative reporter in broadcast and online journalism.  He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University....

Full Disclosure:   years ago, Gretchen Carlson and I worked in the same newsroom at WCPO in Cincinnati. Every so often there's a caus...

The headlines across the country when it comes to higher education are dismally similar:  states are cutting budgets.  And in a state like ...

Is it hard to write while holding pom poms?   Why are there virtually no sports reporters in America's newsrooms and just so many cheer...

How can local TV news end the shutdown?   There would never have been a shutdown if local TV reporters had done their job.   Their job is...

Every television executive in America should be watching what Channel 4 in the UK has done: journalism. Every television news executive ...

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I'm watching MSNBC.   It's acting with disbelief, shock and revulsion at the process a woman must go through to file a sexual haras...

There's a government agency that has done fabulous work not on behalf of corporate lobbyists or the big banks or even the pharmaceutica...

It is brain-smash (football) season again. When do you think universities will recognize what medical science has discovered and do som...