Recently added articles from St. Louis Journalism Review:
Thanks to Post for reporting Notre Dame controversy.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I'm writing to respond to recent media coverage including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 11 article, "Catholics Remain Divided Over Obama Speech to Notre Dame," regarding President Barack Obama's commencement address May 17 at Notre Dame University. ...
Not my favorite columnist.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Now that she's probably waiting for instructions from the new St. Louis Archbishop, Colleen Carroll Campbell has to invent her own misrepresentations, even if she has to paint President Obama with a dirty brush. It doesn't matter if what she writes can be verified, or interpreted, as ...
Shot, then fired.(off the record)(Todd Smith of the Suburban Journals)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Reporter Todd Smith took a bullet for his company, the Suburban Journals. But the company decided to fire him recently. Smith, 37, was wounded during the shooting rampage at the Kirkwood city hall on Feb. 7, 2008. He was covering a city council ...
Deanne Lane gone from KSDK.(off the record)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After 25 years as a reporter and eventually the lead anchor, Deanne Lane is "no longer here," according to KSDK, Channel 5. KSDK, owned by Gannett, has been shedding its older workers such as Lane and before her, weatherman John Fuller. "It's ...
Fighting censorship on campus.(off the record)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The following advice for student journalists was published in Quill, the magazine published by the Society of Professional Journalists. (1) KNOW WHAT CONSTITUTES CENSORSHIP. You can find help from many people: your adviser, a media law teacher ...
Buchanan's Holocaust denial forum disappears.(off the record)(Pat Buchanan)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In Tuesday morning's (May 12) New York Dally News, Menachem Rosensaft asked why MSNBC political commentator Pat Buchanan's web site hosted a discussion forum for Holocaust deniers. By Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., that discussion forum had suddenly and ...
KWMU fund drive a success.(off the record)(Spring Membership Drive)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Spring Membership Drive was a success, announced KWMU. A total of 2,200 listeners pledged $248,000, ...
Searching for Miss Right.(off the record)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My search for a date began after I had given up on the liberal chicks at Webster University. I don't know if it was my love of red meat, my disdain for skinny jeans or my insistence on using the word "chicks," but I had struck out consistently and ...
For whom the bell tolls.(In My View)(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 01, 2009; ... For years the obits in The New York Times have been masterpieces of journalism. Recently the paper eulogized the last rites of the Seattle Post Intelligencer after more than 100 years of publication. The daily journal is no more. Have you noticed how many obituaries these days ...
25 reason why you should subscribe to SJR: awards to the St. Louis Journalism Review.
Mar 01, 2009 ... 1977 Certificate of Appreciation from the Greater St. Louis Association of Black Journalists "for outstanding public service.' 1978 Lowell Mellett Award for Improving Journalism Through Critical Evaluation for its "substantial and hard-hitting criticism of the journalism ...
Why Sylvester Brown was fired.(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 01, 2009; ... About a year or so ago, I met Sylvester Brown at the award ceremonies sponsored by the Greater St. Louis Association of Black Journalists. During our conversation, I said something like--as far as I remember--how he manages to keep his job while being so outspoken. He didn't exactly ...
How the pollsters got it so wrong.(politics & media)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Pre-election polling hit a major bump in the road in the 2008 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary. The 13 polls reported in the four days preceding the contest all had Barack Obama leading Hillary Clinton, some (Gallup, Zogby) by as much as 13 percentage points. The average ...
Biondi seems to try to bankrupt Prof. Meyer.(Lawrence Biondi and Avis Meyer)
Mar 01, 2009; ... In the last issue of SJR, it was reported that the suit pushed by Saint Louis University President Lawrence Biondi against Prof. Avis Meyer had ended with an out-of-court settlement just before a trial was to begin. Not so fast, say Biondi's lawyers from the downtown firm of ...
Sylvester Brown silenced by the Post-Dispatch.
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Speaking with the fervor of a minister before an adoring congregation, fired St. Louis Post-Dispatch metro columnist Sylvester Brown Jr. appeared at a news conference to defend his reputation and fire salvos of criticism at the management that had finally ...
He was a marked man.(Sylvester Brown)
Mar 01, 2009; ... When a company wants to fire someone, there's very little that person can do to avoid it, even if represented by a union. While the sacking may be unfair and the result of a fabricated offense, as the Post-Dispatch's ex-columnist Sylvester Brown says happened to him, it would take a long ...
"Global warming": stirs a storm for.... weather forecasters.
Mar 01, 2009; ... Scientists from around the globe warned in March that irreversible climate shifts are moving to worst case scenario. Despite the alarm, most weather forecasters still avoid any mention of global warming on their nightly TV broadcasts. Eric Aldrich, a meteorologist at KOMU-TV, ...
Thievery, not honesty, highlighted.(Ad/PR)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Many young college students enter business school with the belief that they will have to lie, cheat and steal to attain success. Why? Because news media pay comparatively little attention to honest success stories, said Stuart D. Yoak, Ph.D., a professor in the Olin School of Business at ...
A rule of journalism: don't assume.(sports & media)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The byline in the Post-Dispatch read Bryan Burwell. The dateline read Glendale, Ariz .... But where was Burwell? His Sunday column, on the day after Mizzou lost to Connecticut and was ousted from the NCAA tournament in its quarter-final round, pointed out that the ...
Three stations did baseball play-by-play.(Radio History)
Mar 01, 2009; ... In the early days of baseball broadcasting, there was no sophistication. It was every station for itself, with three different stations broadcasting all the games in St. Louis. At first, in 1926, it seemed the baseball clubs gave no thought to having radio broadcast their games ....
On radio it was baseball and beer.(Hyde Park Brewery)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Back in 1939, one local brewery's name was synonymous with sports in St. Louis. The brewery sponsored broadcasts of pre-game and post-game baseball broadcasts on the radio and daily sports updates on five local radio stations. In fact, this brewery practically wrote the book on sports ...