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(04/22/03 4:00am)
So what's the purpose of a college newspaper, anyway? Is it meant to compete with professional newspapers? Does it act as a watchdog for the world microcosm that college campuses attempt to be? Should it serve students by giving them insight into academics and a university's social scenes? Is it a training ground for future sports writers, freelance photojournalists and investigative reporters?
(04/14/03 4:00am)
THE CAVALIER Daily must bedoing a good job these days, because not only was my inbox empty this week, but I am forced to choose a more nit-picky topic than usual. That topic is word choice. Newspapers have finite space, so reporters are often urged to use as few words as possible.
(04/08/03 4:00am)
THIS WEEK'S column gives a break to The Cavalier Daily's writers, in order to address reader concerns about photographs and the Web site.
(03/31/03 5:00am)
IT'S TOUGH to critique an opinion page. I haven't done it yet because there have always been more pressing matters to which to devote my column. I do it this week because the only letter I received was about an Associated Press story,and because in general I've probably neglected the page too long.
(03/24/03 5:00am)
WAR COVERAGE 101 is a course we'd all probably prefer not to take, but with Peter Arnett and night-vision green back on television, The Cavalier Daily and every other newspaper in the country have been thrust into the classroom.
(03/17/03 5:00am)
THOUGH the reader might not know it or care to acknowledge it, running a newspaper is often a very stressful job. Hardly a day goes by when the editors of a paper or a news service, or the producers of a news show, don't receive criticism. Everyone thinks they know how to do the job better than the editors and reporters do. And, unlike in some other professions, newspaper staffers have to take the criticism. Its part of their job.
(03/11/03 5:00am)
If a good feature story showcases a journalist's writing skills, a solid breaking news story demonstrates the writer's reporting skills. Feature writers have a great deal of freedom to try new things and write artisticallyoften because they have a fair amount of time in which to write their stories. But the reporter who breaks a news story can only be judged on the details within the article and the number of relevant questions that are answered.
(02/24/03 5:00am)
MOST PEOPLE know that
newspapers are supposed to
present the news in an unbiased manner. When it comes to the News page, conflict of interest rules are pretty easy to understand. If Bob Smith's senator brother is involved in a political scandal, Bob Smith shouldn't write the story. But when it comes to the Opinion page, the guidelines for conflict of interest are murkier.
(02/18/03 5:00am)
I don't envy the job of a political reporter during election season. Politics is a mean business, and the political reporter has the unenviable task of separating fact from rumor and truth from slander. In many cases it's impossible to know for sure who did what when, so the safest thing to do is just stick to the facts and not get stuck in the quagmire of motives and intentions.
(02/10/03 5:00am)
Last Monday, the front page of The Cavalier Daily featured a story about the disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia and resulting death of all seven astronauts aboard. The disaster had occurred the previous Saturday, a day that The Cavalier Daily does not publish.
(02/04/03 5:00am)
There are a few very unpleasant things that most reporters must go through at one time or another. For me, the top item on that list is covering a death. You don't want to bother the grieving family, though you know you must call them, hoping they'll be willing to talk about their loved one.
(12/03/02 5:00am)
WHEN I worked at The Cavalier Daily, writing headlines was every associate editor's least favorite task. By the time anyone got around to writing them, it was late and they were tired. Headlines were subject to restrictive space and grammar rules. They were a big pain in the neck.
(11/25/02 5:00am)
LAST WEEK, The Cavalier
Daily broke a big story. On Tuesday, it reported that two University fraternities, Kappa Alpha and Zeta Psi, had been suspended from the Inter-Fraternity Council and were the subject of punitive action by their national organizations following the discovery of party photographs of guests in racially offensive costumes.
(11/18/02 5:00am)
The only staff-generated business story in last week's paper appeared on the Life page. Wednesday's Focus page consisted of a giant graphic, and there was no Health & Science page on Thursday.
(11/11/02 5:00am)
Is the Cavalier Daily racist? In a word, no, though the accusation is levied annually by the black community.
(11/04/02 5:00am)
I use this week's column to address a perennial complaint levied at The Cavalier Daily: coverage of the swim and dive team. The season has just begun, and, sadly, the first criticism is already in.
(10/28/02 5:00am)
I've written in the past about why newspaper reporters and
editors must separate themselves from the news. The profession's ethical standards clearly dictate that journalists must avoid any conflicts of interest -- real or just perceived. But what happens when the newspaper becomes the news?
(10/21/02 4:00am)
Last week, The Cavalier Daily lost its executive editor. Jeffrey
Eisenberg stepped down from his position after the rest of the paper's Managing Board decided that he could not serve as both executive editor and counsel for University student Adam Boyd, who was charged with an honor offense. This decision came late, but it is better late than not at all.
(10/14/02 4:00am)
If someone were to ask me what I like least about my job, I
would say that I'm becoming far too jaded for someone so young. Two years of car crashes and government scandals have left me skeptical about everything. As far as I can tell, it's a pretty common side effect of news gathering.
(10/10/02 4:00am)
AMONG the duties most highly prized by journalists is that of
holding influential and powerful people accountable for their actions. Reporters break stories of inappropriate or illegal activities every day. Governments -- national, state and local -- have come crashing down as a result of probing investigative journalism.