Neil Holdway
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Policy Corner: When to run graphic photographsJun 05, 2022 4:40 pm - Sadly, many graphic news photographs are available these days. Brutal images have come out of Ukraine day after day. And heartbreaking images have emerged from Uvalde, T...
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Policy Corner: Why we avoid 'horse-racing' election storiesApr 30, 2022 4:04 pm - We're providing coverage of the local elections starting with the June 28 primary, but we do set guidelines for ourselves on the articles we'll publish. Among the big on...
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Policy corner: The scrutiny we give to photographs of politicians and candidatesApr 02, 2022 2:52 pm - We always scrutinize the photographs we use, and now in the primary election season, we watch carefully which photos we use of people in or running for public office. Es...
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Behind the Curtain: The effort we make to edit wire biasDec 06, 2021 12:26 pm - The Daily Herald relies on wire services for most of our state, national and international news. We notice biases, implicit or subtle, in all the sources at one time or...
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Behind the Curtain: Do adjectives add to news bias?Jan 08, 2022 2:13 pm - What if we tried to produce a whole day's paper without using any adjectives? A reader who used to write us regularly, the late Stan Zegel, put that challenge to us in r...
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Policy Corner: The challenge of avoiding bias in choosing the day's top storiesMar 06, 2022 9:03 am - I've written about how we subscribe to "wire" and other services for our state, national and international news. These services help guide what news we present to you in...
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Pulling back the curtain: How we tried to define objectivityNov 01, 2021 4:54 pm - How do we define objectivity? We journalists have liked to say, if thinking only quickly about it, that we're objective. And we certainly have been told that we should b...
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Pulling back the curtain: We've started an Objectivity CouncilNov 01, 2021 9:10 am - How do we define objectivity? We journalists have liked to say, if thinking only quickly about it, that we're objective. And we certainly have been told that we should b...
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Behind the curtain: How much focus should a loud protest get?Feb 04, 2022 5:36 pm - How may biases have come into play with some of the news we've covered over the past year? We on our Objectivity Council looked at how we covered schools and the pandemi...
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The stories that stick with us: When the front pages show the depth of life in the simplest packagesOct 04, 2021 8:22 am - A big part of my job is making the Daily Herald's front pages, and I've made countless dramatic fronts: Presidential elections, bombings, fires, heroics, impeachments, c...