Report, read and react
By Masha Herbst | April 22, 2003So what's the purpose of a college newspaper, anyway? Is it meant to compete with professional newspapers?
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So what's the purpose of a college newspaper, anyway? Is it meant to compete with professional newspapers?
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.
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. One reader wrote to express her discontent with art on the Life page.
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.
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. It seems that there are several basic elements of coverage that a paper should bring its readers during a war.
THOUGH the reader might not know it or care to acknowledge it, running a newspaper is often a very stressful job.
If a good feature story showcases a journalist's writing skills, a solid breaking news story demonstrates the writer's reporting skills.
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.
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.
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.
