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Schuker, interviewed amidst a swirling Crimson newsroom, expressed surprise and gratitude about the decision...
...mass of the news world...minorities have to work twice as hard to get the credit,” he said.Being a minority journalist, however, can also be advantageous, said Boston Globe Ombudsman Richard Charcón.Charcón spoke about the importance of diversity in the newsroom and said that his Spanish language skills have allowed him to report stories that people without his background could not cover.“You need to have people of different cultures and people who can speak different languages” in the newsroom, he said.One important way for minorities...
...Good Night, and Good Luck”’s CBS newsroom presents a considerably more noble alternate reality, though an equally chaotic one. Its reporters are constantly being hassled by intruders—managerial types with their eyes on the bottom line, jingoistic pundits, and dunderheaded military commanders who demand to review footage before it is broadcast. Watching Murrow and producer Fred W. Friendly (played by Clooney) fearlessly rebuff these would-be defilers of the fourth estate is enough to make a college journalist break a sweat...
Hemingway and O. Henry used to pick at the paper’s typewriters, and once upon a time, reporters would slide into the darkroom to sip a little bourbon. Or so one reporter told me. The aging newsroom displayed its two Pulitzers between the escalators, right where you couldn’t miss them. In the cafeteria, I ate the sweet butter biscuits that ladies pushed to me, saying, “Sugar” or “Miss April,” small names dropped into my hand with my pennies and dimes...
...Other journalists at the Herald have pointed out that at least one other reporter surreptitiously taped but didn't get fired. ?This has happened before,? says one long-time veteran of the Herald newsroom. ?There's been no policy on this. The couple of instances that it has happened before it was between you and your editor. You get slapped on the hand and nobody needs to know about it.? Peter Wallsten, a former Miami Herald political correspondent who now reports on the White House for the Los Angeles Times has created a website for journalists to sign a petition...