What do you want to see in our daily newspaper?
I have just read this, and this with comments and I walked away thinking I should be thankful that we finally have a pulitzer prize any pultizer prize, but I couldn’t help but wish that we had a second pulitzer prize for investigative reporting. Then as I often do I answered myself and said “yeah, right Gloria never in this town. Our newspaper does not take on the hard issues, the ones that win pulitzer prizes for investigative reporting”. And then I thought, hey, now is the time. Now things can change with Alex Machaskee’s retirement.
So then I thought what would I like to see in my daily newspaper
1. more in-depth investigative reporting
2. less opinion shaping (the newspaper does the balanced reporting, we shape the opinions)
3. advertisers that know the value of having a free and independent press
4. a newspaper that is a true community and civic leader
Now with the changing of the guard, it is the time for the Plain Dealer to stand up and become the force behind the new golden age in Cleveland. I wonder if they are up to the task or have the years of oppression taken out the passion in their hearts that caused them to choose journalism as a profession. Time will tell.
What would you like to see when you open The Plain Dealer?
January 18th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
Gloria, in December, I heard that Stuart Warner, the editor and writing coach at the PD who worked with Connie Schultz and many other writers (including a dear friend of mine who does more narrative reporting for the PD), is going to be switching roles and work with the investigative reporting writers, rather than the features writers. I don’t know if that’s still happening, but if so, it might go a ways toward your hope for better investigative reporting. I do not know Warner, but I trust my sources.
January 30th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Sweet