Articles filed under Inside the Newsroom
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How We Got The Story: Reporters carefully crafted the narrative about fatal fire in InglesideJan 11, 2021 12:00 am - Interviewing people after a deadly tragedy and writing about the circumstances that led to the loss of life is perhaps a journalist's toughest assignment. It requires th...
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Beyond the Byline: Kane develops Sunday's local-news reportJan 11, 2021 12:00 am - Deputy City Editor James Kane's mission is to get Saturday's local news into Sunday's paper, coordinating the work of reporters and photographers and going to the scene ...
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From the Editor: Chronicling the vaccine phase of the pandemic experienceJan 11, 2021 12:00 am - Hope comes in different forms in our evolving COVID-19 existence. In March, it was availability of testing for the strange new killer virus that was devastating New York...
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Behind the Curtain: January's Newspaper Movie of the MonthJan 11, 2021 12:00 am - In this 2014 film based on a true story, Jeremy Renner stars as late San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb, who was investigated after breaking the story in 1996 that...
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Policy Corner: Owning our mistakesJan 11, 2021 12:00 am - We all make mistakes. We're human, after all. In the news business, however, our mistakes are laid bare for all to see. Mistakes can damage our credibility. It might mak...
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How We Got The Picture: 'Choose to be happy': Overcoming weather, COVID-19 to celebrate a centenarianJan 04, 2021 12:00 am - Now that 2020 is behind us, I think that we all can agree things were a bit different this past year. All of our lives changed in many ways during the pandemic that is s...
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Policy Corner: Our guidelines for reporting on unhelpful behaviorDec 06, 2020 12:00 am - At the Daily Herald we take our commitment to the communities we serve seriously. We want to be good citizens of the suburbs. We want to make things better - not worse. ...
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Behind the Curtain: Starting a paper during a pandemicDec 06, 2020 12:00 am - Daily Herald Editor John Lampinen called me one afternoon in May with a proposal: We were going to be expanding our reach to the North Shore - specifically, two weekly p...
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A photographer gets the feel of his picture of a hot-air balloonDec 06, 2020 12:00 am - When I am out on assignment for the Daily Herald or for that matter anytime I'm just out, I never know what I will come across and witness. Case in point while I was sho...
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When the entertainment slowed, we tried to entertainDec 06, 2020 12:00 am - What's Plan B when a public health crisis shuts down one of your main sources of income? If you're a musician in the suburbs of Chicago, you learn to innovate. And if ...