Jim Slusher
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Succor, sting: The role of 'them pictures' in engaging opinionNov 04, 2021 1:00 am - The political cartoon is a newspaper feature with a rich history and a shaky future. In the 1870s, Thomas Nast built a career around caricatures of William M. Tweed, the...
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When 'service to others' makes the front pageOct 28, 2021 1:00 am - When we think of how accomplishment is recognized in the news, certain topics probably leap immediately to mind. Like sports, for example, where new heroes rise and fal...
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Slusher: Our struggle to get Facebook to fix loss of commentingOct 14, 2021 1:00 am - One of the advantages of the digital age for newspapers is that we now are more capable than ever of engaging directly with readers and letting readers engage with each ...
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The stories that stick with us: A decadeslong commitment to telling diverse human storiesOct 03, 2021 1:00 am - Staying in touch with our communities is the lifeblood of the Daily Herald, and we showed a particularly thoughtful commitment to that goal years ago with a variety of i...
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A spirit of unity, rememberedSep 09, 2021 1:00 am - In 2001, a hashtag was, well, just a hashtag. Mostly just a visual representation of the word "number" for people who were too busy or too lazy to type "No." as the abbr...
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A tale of two sicknesses, and the making of public policyAug 12, 2021 1:00 am - Two stories recently in the news: No. 1: Rolling Stone magazine reported in May on a diatribe by guitar virtuoso Eric Clapton describing his harrowing personal experienc...
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Avoiding bias, oversimplification in reporting on masks, vaccines and other controversiesJul 22, 2021 1:00 am - At the Daily Herald, like most other conscientious news organizations, we make great efforts to report news stories, and especially news stories about controversial topi...
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Reporting on a tornado in a 24-hour news cycleJun 24, 2021 1:00 am - We're all familiar with the 24-hour cycle in which news circulates today. For complex political and social issues, that cycle gets blamed for a lot of premature, misinfo...
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The key lesson to take from Fauci's emailsJun 03, 2021 1:00 am - There is a valuable lesson in Dr. Anthony Fauci's just-released emails, and it has nothing to do with COVID-19. It involves two particular aspects of written communicati...
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In praise of journeymen and womenMay 13, 2021 1:00 am - The term journeyman has somehow acquired a pejorative tone in today's lexicon, as if it refers to a person who is somehow not accomplished enough to be distinguished. To...