Jim Slusher
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The broad view on young people’s disdain for newsSep 20, 2012 5:00 am - To us in print journalism, it’s hard enough to hear that young people don’t think newspapers are important. But there’s something more ominous on the horizon that extend...
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New language might have helped tame the Old WestSep 13, 2012 5:00 am - I’m sure it must have been a dream. I was a young writer fresh from J-school and heard about the trouble in Shinbone. I strode into the newspaper office and got the atte...
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Citizen reporting, instant news and the role of editorsSep 06, 2012 9:06 am - We have a saying around here that everyone needs an editor. I can tell you that when you edit the editor’s copy, you are much more discreet about the changes you make or...
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Getting local to lure attention of the Cynical 75Aug 30, 2012 5:00 am - In a recent Reader Poll at our website, www.dailyherald.com, we asked readers to identify their favorite thing about political conventions. Nearly three-fourths of those...
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Openness in an hour of pain is a gift to rest of usAug 23, 2012 6:27 am - This column is my expression of thanks to all those people who, in the midst of the deepest suffering, take some time out to describe the source of their grief with a lo...
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In fiction as in fact, credibility is king for papersAug 16, 2012 9:05 am - The tweet from longtime newspaper blogger Jim Romenesko was not to be resisted. “Netflix says ‘State of Play’ is the most popular newspaper film. (“Zodiac” is #2 and ‘Ci...
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The worthwhile risk of taking a discomforting callAug 02, 2012 5:00 am - You never know in this job who you’re going to be talking to when you pick up the telephone, caller ID or no caller ID. It may be a cantankerous old curmudgeon, angry be...
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Amid campaign heat, be vigilant to keep your coolJul 26, 2012 5:00 am - Today I want to pick up on a theme the Daily Herald raised a little more than two weeks ago with an editorial titled “Duckworth, Walsh and the politics of gotcha.” In th...
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In ‘rough draft,’ we err on the side of inclusionJul 12, 2012 10:10 am - The newspaper is sometimes called a rough draft of history. In that sense, the Letters to the Editor column, or Fence Post in the Daily Herald, can be very much like a r...
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Watergate and watchdogs — the duty remainsJun 14, 2012 5:00 am - It would be less than accurate to suggest that The Washington Post’s reporting on the Watergate scandal initiated modern-day investigative journalism, but it certainly g...