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News decisions involve more than hits and clicks
By Jim Slusher - 03/14/13
Columnist Jim Slusher: I promise not to devote yet another entire column to coverage of the April 9 election, but I couldn't help shuddering at a true fact that emerged during an editors' discussion on measuring the popularity of particular stories. FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 03/14/13
Columnist Jim Slusher: I promise not to devote yet another entire column to coverage of the April 9 election, but I couldn't help shuddering at a true fact that emerged during an editors' discussion on measuring the popularity of particular stories. FULL STORY
Endorsements built on sincerity, care for suburbs
By Jim Slusher - 03/07/13
Columnist Jim Slusher: On Sunday, we launched into a three-week period of election endorsements with an explanation of why we do them. Today, I want to give you a little closer look at how they work and, perhaps most important, why they're valid. FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 03/07/13
Columnist Jim Slusher: On Sunday, we launched into a three-week period of election endorsements with an explanation of why we do them. Today, I want to give you a little closer look at how they work and, perhaps most important, why they're valid. FULL STORY
Random thoughts on deadlines, fiction and fraud
By Jim Slusher - 02/21/13
Columnist Jim Slusher: Ours is a business of constant online deadlines throughout the day with that one overriding capital-D Deadline of the daily press start ever looming. So journalists know a lot about setting, keeping and missing deadlines FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 02/21/13
Columnist Jim Slusher: Ours is a business of constant online deadlines throughout the day with that one overriding capital-D Deadline of the daily press start ever looming. So journalists know a lot about setting, keeping and missing deadlines FULL STORY
The process of talking with -- and listening to -- each other
By Jim Slusher - 02/14/13
Colimnist Jm Slusher: People like to share their ideas about public issues, and the new commenting process at dailyherald.com ai s to help FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 02/14/13
Colimnist Jm Slusher: People like to share their ideas about public issues, and the new commenting process at dailyherald.com ai s to help FULL STORY
Protecting the currency of trust in all we publish
By Jim Slusher - 01/31/13
Columnist Jim Slusher: With everyone who writes for us, we must by the nature of our work accept a fundamental bond of trust, a trust that says what you write is what you honestly saw, heard or believe and it is your own. FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 01/31/13
Columnist Jim Slusher: With everyone who writes for us, we must by the nature of our work accept a fundamental bond of trust, a trust that says what you write is what you honestly saw, heard or believe and it is your own. FULL STORY
An addition helps strengthen the 'mysterious' editorial board
By Jim Slusher - 01/17/13
Columnist Jim Slusher: Renee Trappe, the Daily Herald's assistant managing editor for local news, joined the newspaper's editorial board this week, and that gives me a dual opportunity today. FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 01/17/13
Columnist Jim Slusher: Renee Trappe, the Daily Herald's assistant managing editor for local news, joined the newspaper's editorial board this week, and that gives me a dual opportunity today. FULL STORY
Stunt shows what papers do -- engage
By Jim Slusher - 01/10/13
Columnist Jim Slusher: All right, pay attention. Ah, well, actually, I may not have to ask that of you. If a stunt pulled by a Belgian advertising agency is any indication, you're already pretty well engaged with your local newspaper. FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 01/10/13
Columnist Jim Slusher: All right, pay attention. Ah, well, actually, I may not have to ask that of you. If a stunt pulled by a Belgian advertising agency is any indication, you're already pretty well engaged with your local newspaper. FULL STORY
The anatomy of a distinction on lame-duck votes
By Jim Slusher - 01/03/13
Columnist Jim Slusher: Daily Herald editorials have tended to disdain legislation that surfaces in a lame-duck session, but in the current state of the Illinois General Assembly, this disdain has produced some difficult reflection for our editorial... FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 01/03/13
Columnist Jim Slusher: Daily Herald editorials have tended to disdain legislation that surfaces in a lame-duck session, but in the current state of the Illinois General Assembly, this disdain has produced some difficult reflection for our editorial... FULL STORY
Events that test the limits of the goal of restraint
By Jim Slusher - 12/20/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: In the Sandy Hook School shooting, newspapers impose restraint on themselves as they seek to tell a story no one would really want to tell -- or to hear. It is, in short, disconcerting to see how that impulse itself has... FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 12/20/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: In the Sandy Hook School shooting, newspapers impose restraint on themselves as they seek to tell a story no one would really want to tell -- or to hear. It is, in short, disconcerting to see how that impulse itself has... FULL STORY
Seeking sanity in definition of news judgment
By Jim Slusher - 12/13/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: I have grown, over time, to be very skeptical about what is considered obvious in the way of judgment calls and to try to maintain some humility in assessing the work and judgments of others. "Judge not, lest ye be judged,"... FULL STORY
By Jim Slusher - 12/13/12
Columnist Jim Slusher: I have grown, over time, to be very skeptical about what is considered obvious in the way of judgment calls and to try to maintain some humility in assessing the work and judgments of others. "Judge not, lest ye be judged,"... FULL STORY
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