Reader Info
Advertising, subscriptions, staff, privacy policy, contact info, freelancers' guidelines, etc.




News Bites
Michael Miner on the media | RSS | Archive | Search


The tiny Lakefront Outlook has just been awarded one of journalism's highest honors, the George Polk Award for local reporting. It honors the weekly Outlook's three-part investigation last December of Bronzeville's new Harold Washington Cultural Center, a money-losing operation that the Outlook reported Alderman Dorothy Tillman has staffed "with her family, friends and political allies." The Polk citation names the Outlook's entire editorial staff of six people, who also produce the Hyde Park Herald each week. Reporter Daniel Yovich led the project. In the January 19 Reader I profiled blind intern Kalari Girtley, who played a key role in the investigation and continues to hope her contribution will lead to a paid position.

Comments
(please read our policy)
Concerned reader
February 22nd - 11:01 a.m.
Instead of taking the word of the "lead" reporter of the series, it would have been balanced and objective to speak with the other reporters involved in the series.

You may find that you have some inaccuracies in your initial story involving Kalari Girtley and your follow-up story about the paper's Polk Award.



The News Bites blogroll
Harold, Daily by Harold Henderson

The View From Here by Andrew Patner




Branzburg v. Hayes, the split U.S. Supreme Court decision (1972) generally construed by journalists and judges alike as affirming some sort of reporter's privilege in federal courts.

U.S. Appellate Judge Richard Posner's influential opinion in McKevitt v. Pallasch (2003) telling those journalists and judges they were wrong -- there is no such privilege.

John Milton's Areopagitica (1643), one of the earliest and most eloquent arguments for a free press. Said Milton: "As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye."

©1996-2008 Creative Loafing Media All Rights Reserved.   We welcome your comments and suggestions.