St. Louis Journalism Review back issues from March 2007:
Is it editing or censorship at Post?(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Mar 01, 2007; ... While publishers have a right to control the contents of their publications, interference with writers or artists also reveals the mindset of the controller. A number of recent actions by Kevin D. Mowbray, publisher and president of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, should cause Post readers to ...
Post played by the rules.(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Thanks for that great play-byplay on the kidnapping coverage where the Post went head to head with national media. I'm also happy that you touched on Post-Dispatch ethics as a reason for not participating in some of the conduct of the national media; that says we could have but wouldn't. ...
Vertically challenged.(letters)(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Your new issue is certainly impressive! Great cover illustration. My first reaction was, "Wow!" My second was, "Gee, how much is this costing them?" Actually, I think the paper stock is too heavy, both cover and pages. The pages don't lie flat to read. I receive other publications that ...
Ethical retreat?(letters)(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... How did the Post-Dispatch react to the scoop from the two jailhouse interviews with accused kidnapper Michael J. Devlin, by wily Washington University student journalist Susannah Cahalan? The Post consulted The Poynter Media Institute's ethicist Bob Steele. But Post columnist ...
Devoted to print.(letters)(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Want to let you know now that I really like the new format and makeup of SJR--and the new subscription price. I think it is absolutely necessary to ...
Another kind of bishop's tale?(letters)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 01, 2007; ... It's a bit disheartening when a respected observer like Ed Bishop, in singling out one of SJR's biggest accomplishments during his tenure, chooses to belabor how the publication successfully fought against the public-journalism movement. In spending about seven paragraphs on this subject, ...
On-line news startup for St. Louis.(off the record)
Mar 01, 2007; ... A group of former St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalists are planning to start an on-line news publication in St. Louis. The offering would be issue-oriented and updated daily. Margie Freivogel, former Sunday editor at the Post, said planning has been under way since last fall and ...
Rating Missouri congressmen.(off the record)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... The National Journal vote ratings for the 2006 congressional session came out in early March. Based on a carefully selected range of votes (95 in the House, 82 in the Senate) and divided along three conservative-liberal dimensions (economic, foreign, social), they are the most respected ...
Bonus boners.(off the record)
Mar 01, 2007; ... While the St. Louis Post-Dispatch was reporting that the CEO of Ameren, the beleaguered electric utility, got a 8243,000 bonus that he didn't earn last year, readers were not told that the CEO of the newspaper company got a $300,000 bonus she didn't earn. But KMOX radio talk ...
Meet the new kids on the page.(off the record)
Mar 01, 2007; ... On Jan. 29, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch announced its welcome to 12 new guest contributors and printed their profiles in the opinion section. The contributors are all Post readers and local citizens who responded to the paper's 2006 call for applicants to the unpaid commentator positions ....
Shield law debated by legislators.(off the record)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... A bill to enact a shield law for reporters to protect their sources is being debated in the Missouri legislature. As SJR went to press the bill still needed passage in the House before being sent to the Senate. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that providing even a limited ...
Three decades of "In These Times".(off the record)
Mar 01, 2007; ... In These Times wants you to think locally and act locally. In 2006, the feisty publication won an UTNE Independent Press Award for having the best local political coverage. This year, it celebrates its 30th birthday. In other words, now is a good time to get to know this Chicago-based ...
Village Voice takes the fifth ...(off the record)(Tony Ortega, fifth editor)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Uneasy lies the head, and all that jazz, is a major part of the news business these days. The Village Voice named its fifth new editor in 15 months, and the longtime editor of the New Republic relinquished his ownership stake, though he remains as editor in chief. The Voice, ...
Stayin' Alive.(Alive magazine)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Take a first glance at Alive magazine, and you may think you're seeing double. Dressed up in diamond advertisements and party pictures, news of high-profile benefits and profiles of local movers and shakers, it seems to be borrowing its image from the closet of long-established glossy St ....
Untold story: Show Me State shows the way on choosing judges.(politics & media)(Missouri)
Mar 01, 2007; ... For most policy areas, Missouri is indeed the show-me state. If some new idea does not have a successful track record elsewhere, Missourians are skeptical about being the first to try it. One major exception is selecting judges. Changes that Missouri made in 1940 for a blended ...
St. Louis Mag's Jeanette Batz Cooperman steps down as editor.(St. Louis Magazine)
Mar 01, 2007; ... St. Louis Magazine has middle-aged spread. Now 44 years old, it tips the scales at more than 200 pages. The monthly is thick with more advertising and more stories with substance than ever before. The in-depth profiles of Richard Callow by John M. McGuire and of Jamie Allman by ...
St. Louis U. students opt for print papers.
Mar 01, 2007; ... "EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT. FREE PAPERS FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS!" Three or four generations ago, such a cry from ragamuffins in the streets would have elicited a mob of grabby readers. But what with on-line newspapers, headline services, iPods, blogs, media ...
The unkindest cut of all.(sports & media)
Mar 01, 2007; ... "Okay, I read it--but what did you really think?" That's' the sort of question, asked in a smarmy tone, that causes the hairs to rise on the back of a critic's neck--from a stranger (who ever heard of a perfect stranger, anyhow?) inquiring as to whether a critic lied, or just ...
Assault never on public's right to know never seems to subside.
Mar 01, 2007; ... It's Sunshine Week, and you know what that means. A bunch of well-meaning newspaper editors and columnists--folks like me--will climb up onto our worn-out soapboxes and scream from the bottom of our lungs about how important the concept of open government is. We'll ...
The "anonymous" lessons of the Libby trial.(I. Lewis Libby Jr., anonymous sources)
Mar 01, 2007; ... When even staunch advocates of First Amendment protection for the media raise legal doubts about journalists' uses of anonymous sources, it is time for journalists to pause and rethink their increasing, unabated use of these sources. None other than former New York Times ...
The music stations have lost me completely.(am/fm)
Mar 01, 2007; ... I've noticed that these columns have been sounding more and more like the bitter ramblings of a middle-aged white guy longing for the way radio used to be, and lamenting the rapid pace of change. So I was not planning to be overly critical this month. But Randy Raley and one infomercial ...
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.(Book review)
Mar 01, 2007; ... American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America By Chris Hedges Simon & Schuster, Inc. 254 pages There's probably no harsher accusation in American politics today than the tag of fascist. It's even worse than calling someone a communist, partly because the word ...
Number crunching continues; faces and flaps fan the air.(Channels)
Mar 01, 2007; ... Ratings over the past month and a half have revealed two significant stories. First, in the February Nielsen ratings period, Channel 5 and Channel 4 ended up tied at 10 p.m., though Channel 5 won the other news time periods for the month. Both stations had a 16.6 rating and a 25 ...
Chances of placing a news release at the Post: 2.3%.(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Mar 01, 2007; ... "In the first place, nothing is more ridiculous than the idea that anybody can get the papers to print what he wants them to print," wrote Ivy L. Lee in one of the pioneering works of public relations, Publicity: Some of the Things It Is and Is Not. "Men often send for me and ...
Those were the days ... at WESL.(radio stations)(Company overview)
Mar 01, 2007; ... When Bettye Robinson started working at WESL July 31, 1972, as a receptionist, she had no way of knowing how many changes she'd see in her 35-year career there. You may not recognize her name, because most of her work was behind the scenes, although she was called on to work in ...
O'Reilly Press Club Castigates.(Bill O'Reilly)
Mar 01, 2007; ... A panel at a recent Press Club forum on journalistic ethics in reporting the Shawn Hornbeck/Ben Ownby kidnappings and rescue agreed on one thing: Bill O'Reilly hit a new low. O'Reilly is the controversial commentator on Fox cable news. After the story broke that the boys were ...
Now ends the winter of our sports discontent.(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The great advantage to getting older is that one retains many fond and warm memories of people and places and events. When it comes to sports, the Cardinals have been the constant, part of my consciousness since I came to Missouri in 1947 and, on a warm September afternoon, I ...
Is it too late for media reform?
Mar 01, 2007; ... Many voices are heard now protesting the likelihood that the remaining limitations on media consolidation may be further reduced or even lifted altogether. Such concerns are welcome, of course, but a review of the eight leading media conglomerates reveal that such efforts will not undo the ...
Fairness makes for lousy cartoons.
Mar 01, 2007; ... Reflecting on government in 1840s England, Victorian essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote of an even more commanding presence in the halls of power: "In the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all .... "Printing, which comes necessarily out of Writing, ...
Suburban Journals.(Media)(Suburban Journals Inc.)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Erik Smelser was appointed online director for the Journals. Most recently, he was the advertising director of the Daily Star in Hammond, LA. The company has 34 Web ...
KMOV (Channel 4).(Media)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Steve Savard, sports director for the last 12 years, recently tried out the news anchor desk filling in for the vacationing Russell ...
Fleishman-Hillard.(AD/PR)(Fleishman-Hillard Inc.)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Marry Heires joined the agency as a vice president in the internal communications practice. Angela Proctor joined the agency in the marketing communications practice. Promoted to vice president were ...
Vandiver Group.(AD/PR)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Kelly Ferrara was promoted to senior vice president. Previously, she was with ...
Kirkwood High School.(MEDIA AWARDS)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Rachel Belsha, designer, Susanna Compton, designer, and John Killeen, DVD editor, of the yearbook Pioneer, and Adrienne Tyrey, DVD editor of Call, ...
The Greater St. Louis Restaurant Association.(MEDIA AWARDS)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The Association named J.C. Corcoran of K-Hits 96.3 as Media Person of the Year. Corcoran is host of "J.C. & The U-Man Morning Showgram" on the ...
KETC (Channel 9).(MEDIA AWARDS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The station won a 2007 Outstanding Partnership Award from the Missouri Head Start Association for its joint effort with Grace ...
National Federation of Press Women, Missouri Affiliate.(MEDIA AWARDS)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The Affiliate will bestow the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award on Barbara Perry Lawton. The award is given for work which must reflect "the highest standards of professional ethics and excellence. Also honored at the luncheon will be Carol A. Daniel, Tom Eschen, Jeff Fister, ...
UM St. Louis Magazine.(MEDIA AWARDS)(University of Missouri wins Missouri Association of Publications' Best Magazine Design from an Educational Institution)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The campus magazine St. Louis for the University of Missouri-St. Louis won the Randy Award for "Best Magazine Design from an Educational Institution" sponsored by the Missouri Association of Publications. Sandy Morris was the graphic designer for the ...
Falk Harrison Creative.(AD/PR AWARDS)(Mercury Excellence Awards)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The agency won a first-place award in the 2006/07 Mercury Excellence Awards for designing a 2006 annual report ....
Kochan & Co. Advertising.(AD/PR AWARDS)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The agency received the 2006 ...
Russert to give Washington U. Commencement address.(COMING EVENTS)(Tim Russert speaks at Washington University)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Tim Russert, managing editor and moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press" and political analyst for "NBC Nightly News" and the "Today" show has ...
Journalists to hold conference.(COMING EVENTS)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... The St. Louis Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) is sponsoring a conference for journalists April 13-14. Industry experts will discuss topics ranging from ...
Pelosi to give Webster U. Commencement address.(COMING EVENTS)(Nancy Pelosi speak s at Webster University)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2007 ... Nancy Peloci, Speaker of the U.S. House, will give the Webster University ...