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...years, then, the ever-present temptation toward sensationalistic news has taken on a new twist. Collaboration across various types of media (often known as "synergy") gives readers and viewers unprecedented access to information, but it also blurs the distinction between news and entertainment. The strict mores of the newsroom butt heads against the need to attract viewers and then to sell them the related products, regardless of whether they are fact or fiction...
...course, debates that are played out on the opinion pages often reverberate in the newsroom. Within the Crimson, I have tried to speak to policies and politics that are right (no pun intended) for this campus and for the world. To have kept to myself would have been to maintain the collegial backslapping for which we as an organization lambast others. For this internal criticism, certainly, I have paid somewhat of a price...
...good half hour I watch her negotiate the kitchen the same way a good editor works a newsroom: She offers input, answers questions and helps with the more tedious tasks. Most importantly, she takes a good hard look, at everything before it goes to press. Or, in this case, to the dining room. And more than once she does some editing--one dish is too dry, something else is too rare, and a third entree is just plain...
...Beach took it in stride, remembering "that special time during the flood when [the paper] was being snapped up at all the refugee centers... I think that meant more than the prize." That may be so, but the Pulitzer won't be amiss at the Herald's newly constructed newsroom...
...finished story is sent downstairs along computer wires. It's a nearly instantaneous process: the story disappears from the screen of the PC in the newsroom and reappears on the screen of a Mac in the PRS room, used for layout, just seconds later...