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These words were my introduction to my summer internship at The Hill, a congressional newspaper. I had just walked into the newsroom and met the only other female intern there. I did not realize it then, but I soon learned that there is a striking absence of estrogen among the nation’s media elite...
This is disconcerting because of the vast authority that editors hold in the newsroom. As the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) explains in its 2000 report, “whoever controls assignments, whoever decides how a story is going to be covered, whoever decides what placement that story gets in a newspaper…is not only shaping content of news, but is deciding what readers…know and how they know...
...feel as if I’m getting out and doing something novel during my reporting process, and it serves as a seal guaranteeing the journalistic quality of the product. A dateline yells out, “I’m not your run-of-the-mill newsroom-reported story!” Or at least it yells that...
APPOINTED. BILL KELLER, 54, low-key former managing editor and foreign editor of the New York Times; as executive editor, the paper's highest-ranking newsroom post; in New York City. Keller takes over from former executive editor Joseph Lelyveld, who was brought back as acting newsroom chief after the June resignation of Howell Raines amid newsroom dissension following disclosures of extensive fabrications in stories by reporter Jayson Blair...
...mind that the journalist's definition of important is "important to journalists." USA Today is not in an urban hot spot. In 2001 it moved (along with corporate parent Gannett) to spacious new digs, complete with fitness club, in the remote office-park suburbs of Washington. Its comparatively quiet newsroom culture doesn't make for juicy media gossip. Rather, it just discreetly makes its way into the hands, and consciousness, of more Americans than any other newspaper. Says Mark Halperin, political director for ABC News: "The media elites in Washington and New York who don't read USA Today unless...