When Daniel Squier returned to the Times-Standard in January of 2018 to take a reporting job covering local courts, he knew he would be stepping into a newsroom fundamentally changed from the one he left 12 years earlier. When Squier served as the paper’s sports editor in the early 2000s, he was one of four […]
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The Unraveling of the Times-Standard
It’s difficult to watch what’s been happening at the Times-Standard over the last several months, even from my seat on the sidelines. If you’re unaware, the region’s only daily just weathered another round of layoffs, including three members of the newsroom. I’m not sure how they are managing to put out a paper six days […]
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Because Media Literacy Matters
Welcome to our second annual Media Literacy Issue. A lot has changed since last year’s inaugural offering (June 7, 2018), penned as the fake news chorus gripped the nation. The inspiration behind that issue was transparency, wanting to bring you, our valued readers, into the proverbial newsroom to help you understand how this newspaper works […]