Last week, the Sentinel sat down with U.S. Senator Ben Cardin. Their entire interview is a good read, but this exchange over the mainstream media caught our eye.The Sentinel: One…
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The Reporting Life, Part Five
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By Kathleen Miller. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Now’s the time when you send your story over to an editor for review and let your mind rot a bit while you…
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The Reporting Life, Part Four
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By Kathleen Miller. 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Now it’s time to write. Everybody goes about this process differently.The lede, or first sentence of an article, is arguably the most…
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The Reporting Life, Part Three
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By Kathleen Miller. 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Shortly after lunch, it’s time to start assessing what information you’ve got, and what information you lack. It’s time to fill the…
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The Reporting Life, Part Two
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By Kathleen Miller. Around 10 a.m. Sometime around 10 a.m. every day, an editor would saunter over to my desk and hit me with the inevitable: what’s going on Kathleen?Editors…
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Post Runs PR Content as News
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The Post’s Howard Kurtz gives the following account of the newspaper’s decision to run an article from a hospital’s in-house PR magazine as “news.” Why did they do it? The…
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Print MSM to MoCo: Adios!
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So you thought the print mainstream media (MSM) was undergoing changes? Wait until you read this!Washington PostMoCo political reporter Ann Marimow is on maternity leave. We hear that when she…
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The Reporting Life, Part One
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By Kathleen Miller. A reporter’s day starts with a pit in your stomach as you trudge to the end of your driveway or turn on your computer to see exactly…
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The Reporting Life: A Preview
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One of our favorite MSM (mainstream media) reporters is Kathleen Miller. Ms. Miller covered Montgomery County for the Examiner and the state legislature for the Associated Press. We particularly appreciated…
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Post Ombudsman Covers Dinnergate
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Washington Post Ombudsman Andrew Alexander offers a thorough report on the Dinnergate scandal today. He details participation by four newsroom editors in planning the event, none of whom said it…