Word: heralds
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Laura Parker, chief of the Washington Post's Miami bureau, took the shortcut principle even further in filing a piece about mosquito and grasshopper infestations in Florida. She lifted most of her reporting from stories by the Miami Herald and the Associated Press, including direct quotations from people she had not interviewed. She presumably saw little point in the donkey work of calling the quoted sources, or hunting up counterparts, to provide innocuous remarks. In the mind of her editors, however, she broke an implicit contract with the reader, in which the newspaper vouches that all its facts, especially those...
...according to Miami Herald movie reviewer Bill Cosford, "a butt- kicking feminist manifesto . . . which sweeps you along for the ride." No, says Sheila Benson, a Los Angeles Times film critic, it is a betrayal of feminism, which, as she understands it, "has to do with responsibility, equality, sensitivity, understanding -- not revenge, retribution or sadistic behavior...
This is the tale of one town. When dawn breaks in Ujantia, it is not chirping birds or crowing cocks that herald the new day but the wailing of hungry babies. Rarely do desperate parents have anything to silence the cries. Says Sultana Razia, rocking her infant girl: "I have only water to feed my child." The howling dies down, more often than not, when the babies simply fall mute from exhaustion...
Also in the Nieman program next year: Michael E. Ruane, 42, reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer; Mark Seibel, 37, foreign editor of The Miami Herald; Tom Witosky, 39, sports projects reporter for The Des Moines Register; and Nancy Wright, 37, political reporter for the Rutland, Vt., Herald and The Times Argus...
...death in 1989 of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, the Times's major competitor, has helped boost the paper's daily circulation to a record high. But like every newspaper in these recessionary times, the Times sees clouds forming on its economic horizon. For more than two decades, it has waged a costly battle for suburban and San Diego readers, wooing them with regional editions of the Times, each tailored to local audiences by an on-site staff. While publisher Laventhol says he has no intention of ceding these outposts to entrenched regional and local newspapers, the Times has shelved...