Jim Slusher
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UDR: Three concepts that drive our coverageJan 30, 2025 1:01 pm - Columnist Jim Slusher: The Daily Herald strives to publish stories that directly help readers in their daily lives, offer information not available elsewhere and focus specifically on suburban issues. A recent article on Tollway stickers exemplified this approach.
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Questions we all should be asking ourselves about trustJan 23, 2025 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: Each of us should question why we trust certain news sources or government actions, and recognize our own biases, basing trust on thoughtful examination rather than emotion.
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History, not politicians or media, puts credit where credit is dueJan 16, 2025 4:00 am - “It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” President Harry S Truman is generally cited as the author of that statement, though Preside...
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Holidays or no holidays, the pursuit of great stories goes onJan 13, 2025 9:37 am - The grandest holiday season of the year is suddenly behind us, and as I reflect on newspapering during the last two weeks of December, I’m transported to a long-ago memor...
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Despite risks, emerging intelligence tools offer glimpse of real benefits for newsDec 13, 2024 4:00 am - Columnist Jim Slusher: How emerging AI tools might help newsrooms produce higher quality journalism and allow readers to better consume, interpret, and interact with news content.
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Holidays are a good time to expand your news tastesDec 05, 2024 4:00 am - Food, glorious food. Of course, it is a subject of interest any time of year, but is there any time when it is more enticing than the year-end holidays? Is there any time...
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Taking time to give thanks for the ‘high ideals’ that make the newsNov 28, 2024 4:00 am - Take a second to think of the news stories that captured your attention in the past week. What were they? Endless complaints about the winners and losers on the national ...
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The joy of a story for what it isn’t, and for what it isNov 21, 2024 4:00 am - It is a story of redemption. It is a story of faith. It is a story of determination and of persistence and of community. It is also noteworthy for what it is not. Yes, t...
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Endorsements and the voters’ final sayNov 14, 2024 4:00 am - In the late stages of the General Election campaign, a not-entirely minor controversy bubbled to the surface when the owners of two major metropolitan dailies — the Los A...
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Managing expectations in the new vote-counting environmentNov 04, 2024 4:00 am - At long last, we find ourselves at the eve of Election Day, and this year more than most, I am drawn to reflect on how different our expectations have to be regarding whe...