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It's been such a hectic week I haven't had time to blog about the wonderful training the newsroom received via the Committee of Concerned Journalists.
We learned about this opportunity through Gregory Favre, one of the members of the Advocate's outside board of directors. Favre and Deborah...
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We are taking a beating over our Fatal Funnel series on a different part of this site. In one of the forums, someone made this comment: "When it comes to the press it is not like the old days where unbiased reporting stood as a standard to reporters just like the Hippocratic oath stands for...
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Here is the agenda for Tuesday's meeting of our ethics board. We welcome your comments on the topics below or anything else.
We also have discussed adding a couple of community members to the board. We'd want them to be people with some background in ethical decision-making such as a priest...
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The Advocate's ethics board had a special meeting after being alerted by a state investigator that we would receive a subpoena for the computer records of someone who posted what could be considered a threat against Victoria District Attorney Stephen Tyler.
As Friday's story notes, we agreed...
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In the digital world, newspapers find themselves routinely facing situations they never saw before the advent of the Internet. Almost 400 years of newspaper history didn't necessarily prepare journalists for the digital future.
Among the questions raised by these new situations:
- How...
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In the spirit of transparency, I share this memo sent to the newsroom staff earlier today:
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Our ethics board adopted this week a new policy governing gifts and conflicts of interest. After surveying other newspapers' policies, we adapted ours...
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Christ in his ministry held dear those who humans felt vile. So how can Republicans claim to be good and not follow but selected teachings that suit them ?
Some of the beatitudes
The poor (Matthew has "poor in spirit"). The text says that theirs is the kingdom of heaven....
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At our ethics board meeting last week, we discussed how far we should go to protect the identity of someone who blogs or posts on our site. The issue came up because one motivated poster has repeatedly tried to identify Michael Ratcliff's accuser.
As our policy states, we want to respect the...
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Some viewers criticized our video interview of Michael Ratcliff's father on the day his son was being indicted. Unfortunately, I think they were right.
As print journalists, we're new to the video world, and we made a misstep here. Our reporter and photographer went to the house looking for...
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At last week's ethics board meeting, we revisted our policy on the use of anonymous sources in local copy. We started by reviewing the policies of other newspapers, as summarized by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. We adopted the policy expressed by the San Jose Mercury...
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After our ethics board meeting Tuesday, I shared the comments of blogger Toni Anne. Several board members agreed she expressed well the spirit of our new site. We don't want to create strict rules. We salute readers like Toni Anne who have something to say and want an outlet for expressing...
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I read the latest blog entry on Your Advocate: an editor's blog a few times and then pondered what I would say before I actually commented. Maybe even now it won't come out the way I want it to - but I never promised you a real writer, either.
I think that is what needs to be addressed...
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We're thrilled by how you've responded to the changes on our Web site. Our primary goal was to make it easier to engage you in the site. Thank you for how you've responded.
As we launch on this exciting experiment, we're turning to our recently formed in-house ethics board for...
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I hope to regularly share reader correspondence on this blog. If one reader raises a question, chances are good others feel the same way. Here's an e-mail we received Sunday about Saturday's coverage of Michael Maples' arrest. My response follows.
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Comments -- I cringed when...
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