Jim Slusher
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Reflections on changes in what we once called ‘tabloid’ reportingJun 18, 2026 11:01 am - There was a time when you saw Paris Hilton’s picture on the news or in the paper and you said to yourself, “OK, so what has she done now?” And she wasn’t alone in attract...
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Making sure rhetoric is not ‘out of whack’Jun 11, 2026 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: It’s incumbent not just on us to provide perspective but on readers and viewers as well. “Getting to the truth ASAP,” any serious citizen quickly finds, involves much more than dramatic images and dismissive insults.
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Behind a hot story, there’s a lot of fire you don’t seeJun 05, 2026 4:00 am - For several years, we used to publish in a monthly rotation thumbnail profiles of individual members of our newsroom staff. The short stories provided a reporter or edito...
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Another opportunity to choose skepticism over cynicismMay 28, 2026 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: Stories about fraud and public misdeeds need to be evaluated on their own terms. They point to issues that deserve attention; they do not cast doubt on every person in a particular field or occupation.
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I, rebel: When the urge to break the rules can’t be resistedMay 21, 2026 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: To many of you, I apologize in advance for the following column. Some of you, I bet, will feel my pain.
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‘News you can use’ can appear in unexpected waysMay 14, 2026 4:00 am - “News you can use” is something of a marketing cliche related to newspapers, but the phrase, like most cliches, has some basis in fact. In addition to stories about polit...
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Ted Turner and the cost of all that immediacy has wroughtMay 07, 2026 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: With broadcast media, Ted Turner demonstrated the appeal of programming that could latch onto news stories as they broke. But it’s also hard to avoid seeing how the concept has been somewhat turned on its head - or perhaps “dropped” is a more apt description - by time and by the internet and social media.
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How a coin-convention press release led to a riveting whodunitApr 30, 2026 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: When writers manage to blend all the main styles of writing into a single story, it can be especially gratifying. Riveting even.
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‘Any bit helps’: Why volunteers will save the worldApr 23, 2026 9:02 am - I started today’s column thinking about Earth Day — or, if you prefer, Earth Month, as April is known. I considered collecting some of the most prominent among numerous e...
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Beyond ho-hum: Finding excitement in today’s space advancesApr 09, 2026 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: I don’t like to constantly revisit “the olden days” of my youth as if they were some halcyon time of simpler pleasures and more meaningful excitements. But there are times when comparisons just can’t be avoided.