Category journalism

Twitter, poetry and journalism Comments

Dec30

The G-T’s experiment with Twitter triggers some musings about poetry and choosing the exact right word.

Year’s top stories? You tell us Comments

Dec9

An invitation to readers: You tell us what you thought the top local news stories of 2009 were.

Corvallis protest wins Times mention Comments

Oct19

Long-running protest at the Benton County Courthouse is featured in the Los Angeles Times.

And now, a little good news Comments

Oct13

A nice story about the OSU football team and a hospice patient triggers that old “good news vs. bad news” debate.

Photos, feces, and an apology Comments

Oct1

The G-T should have thought harder about running a photo to illustrate a case of vandalism in Roseburg — and then should have not published the photo.

A few words about mistakes Comments

Aug12

Why it’s important for newspapers like the Gazette-Times to correct their mistakes, no matter how small.

G-T wins state journalism awards Comments

Jul29

G-T writers and editors fared well in a recent statewide journalism contest.

Finding the right news balance Comments

Jun17

Although the G-T’s primary emphasis is on local news, we still think readers expect national and world news from us as well; our challenge is to find the right balance.

Musings on ‘Nixonland’ Comments

Mar24

I took a long weekend to honor the first day of spring — and the first day of Spring Break — and, among half-hearted attempts to fix a fence and tackle other chores, finished a fascinating, maddening book by a young historian named Rick Perlstein.