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Leadership / Management: How To Help Iowa Newspapers and Their Employees The Iowa Newspaper Foundation has established a fund to help newspaper employees displaced by flooding, and databases to match the needs of flood-affected newspapers with resources offered by other newspapers. By Elaine Clisham | June 18, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Burning the chance to educate youth about respect and rights Just in time for Flag Day, a California public school principal appears to have managed, in one swoop and in the name of respecting the Stars and Stripes, to show a lack of respect for the First Amendment's protections for both free speech and a free press. By Gene Policinski | June 16, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Party conventions will bring another test for free speech Even as this most participatory presidential primary season comes to a close, there are questions about how much free speech - and in what formats - will be exercised or permitted in the next act of the election drama: the GOP and Democratic national conventions this summer. By Gene Policinski | May 30, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Cartoons, T-shirts and more: why the First Amendment protects what offends By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center Why does the First Amendment protect those who are showing and saying things many of us would rather not see or hear? That question was raised recently in three very different situations: -- News... By Gene Policinski | May 15, 2008 Leadership Tips: Five Questions For... Mike Benard Five Questions for ... Mike Benard Former VP Communications & Public Affairs, Kodak Speaker, Writer, Coach on Communications Issues API: What is happening in the news industry and what is different about this transformation? MB: Change has changed. We are... By API Staff | May 07, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Teachers' private postings may make waves in school Free expression is an essential guarantee of the First Amendment - the freedom to speak and write as we will, without censorship by the government. But the freedom to express oneself doesn't necessarily provide a buffer against the reaction to... By Gene Policinski | May 07, 2008 Leadership Tips: Five Questions For... Eli Amdur Five Questions For... Eli Amdur Executive Coach and Adjunct Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University Appearing at From Management to Leadership June 9-12, 2008 VG: What is the biggest mistake most companies make structurally that stands in the way of the staff's... By | April 21, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Diverse newsrooms contribute to public trust of press When should it matter what a reporter or a television correspondent looks like or where he or she comes from? The answer to that question is both "never" and "always." There is an argument made by some that ethnic or... By Gene Policinski | April 17, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Banning liquor ads in college newspapers doesn't work There are moments when a courtroom win for free expression in America may not entirely seem like such a good thing to some Americans, for some distinctly non-First Amendment reasons. I confess to a bit of dueling emotions myself about... By Gene Policinski | April 10, 2008 Leadership Tips: Five Questions For... Steve Gray Five Questions For... Steve Gray Managing Director, Newspaper Next, American Press Institute Appearing at Strategic Leadership: Making Radical Change Happen May 12-15, 2008, in Chicago API: What's the biggest challenge facing newspaper companies today? SG: Frankly, it's a double challenge:... By API Staff | April 10, 2008 Training Tracks: Talking a journalist off the ledge "Talk me down off the ledge," pleaded the subject line of a recent email. The ledge the writer emailed me from is crowded with journalists overwhelmed by digital demands, interactive inferiority complexes and a collapsing business model. I write a... By Steve Buttry | April 07, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Closed-door government lacks key ingredient: us Government at all levels always leans toward conducting business behind closed doors. The reasons range from the ease of working out compromises to avoiding hurt feelings and political repercussions to making the process work faster. The only problems - apart... By Gene Policinski | March 20, 2008 Leadership Tips: Five Questions For...Bill Watson Five Questions for... Bill Watson Executive Editor, Pocono Record/Pocono Mountains Media Group, Stroudsburg, Pa. Appearing at Leading Local Content Teams May 5-7, 2008, in Reston, Va. VG: What are some of the most common ways that small newsrooms waste time... By | March 18, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Rhubarb resumes over who owns sports info, images SARASOTA, Fla. - Spring-training games are under way here, as they are across Florida and Arizona, and the bright warmth of a late-winter sun and a deep-blue sky over a Cincinnati-Pittsburgh game belied the chilly dispute going on between Major... By Gene Policinski | March 07, 2008 Training Tracks: Google doesn't fear outbound links; neither should you Some questions about journalism innovation stump me. This one didn't. A person who's trying to help journalists move into the digital world was trying to persuade some newspaper editors and writers to "build credibility with their users by having the... By Steve Buttry | March 05, 2008 Leadership Tips: Five Questions For...Richard Honack Five questions for ... Richard Honack Assistant Dean, Chief Marketing Officer and Adjunct Associate Professor of Marketing Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Appearing at Strategic Leadership: Making Radical Change Happen May 12-15, 2008, in Chicago VG: What are some... By | March 04, 2008 Training Tracks: Social networks link in ways you can't foresee I've written quite a bit recently about my effort to learn about social networking and how it is useful for journalists (and for the public we serve). As I expanded my LinkedIn network, I kept asking people to tell me... By Steve Buttry | February 28, 2008 Training Tracks: Learning how to LinkIn and what it's worth When a graying journalist like me ventures into Facebook or twitter, you can count on finding lots of users who are way ahead of you and understand the terrain much better. Join LinkedIn and you find lots of users who... By Steve Buttry | February 28, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Student wins battle over protecting immigration editorial News happens, on occasion, even when something doesn't happen - as in a recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court not to consider an appeal involving a California high school student's editorial writings on immigration. The decision not to decide... By Gene Policinski | February 21, 2008 Training Tracks: Bob Steele: a source of guidance and clarity I hesitate to write about Bob Steele's accomplishments, because I don't want this to sound like a eulogy. He's not dead and he's not retiring. He's not even fully leaving Poynter. But Bob's contributions to journalism - specifically to the... By Steve Buttry | February 12, 2008 Training Tracks: Upholding and Updating Ethical Standards API has received a grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation to present a heavily subsidized seminar for newsrooms, press associations and journalism organizations. We can present a one-day Upholding and Updating Ethical Standards seminar examining ethical issues... By Steve Buttry | February 12, 2008 Leadership Tips: Innovation requires picking up the pace Newspapers love multi-level planning, with lots of meetings, memos, battle plans and the like. Well, that doesn't work in the fast pace that innovation requires, as Scott Karp explains in this Publishing 2.0 post. This is a bit of rant,... By Steve Buttry | February 11, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: How not to handle a college newspaper dispute A fiscal fight at Montclair State University in New Jersey between student journalists and the student government has lessons for both sides. The dispute came about because The Montclarion newspaper staff hired its own attorney to advise it on possible... By Gene Policinski | February 08, 2008 Training Tracks: Social networking: a marathon where you sprint Here's the biggest lesson I've learned about social networking: Connection grows from activity. When I reached out to connect with people on Facebook, we connected. When I twittered a lot, people connected with me. When I joined Wired Journalists and... By Steve Buttry | February 08, 2008 First Amendment / Free Speech: Voters will decide if political attacks are too rough A political "smack-down" was how one cable network talk show described the most recent Democratic candidates' televised debate - more the parlance of pro wrestling than national politics. In a spirited exchange, Sen. Barack Obama slammed Sen. Hillary Clinton's work... By Gene Policinski | January 25, 2008 |