First, some good news. We are again publishing stories, columns and photos from The New York Times.
A few readers contacted us last week with concerns – even anger – over our front-page photograph Tuesday of the man who shot and killed Mount Rainier National Park ranger Margaret Anderson.
Watching the traffic numbers on our website helps us figure out what readers find most interesting at the moment, but doesn’t necessarily tell us which stories were the biggest news in our community this year.
Our state’s Temple of Justice, the grand building on the Capitol Campus in Olympia that houses the state Supreme Court, is beautiful but imposing. Inside the court before a proceeding, spectators sit in pew-like benches, whispering as if they’re in church. Every footstep, every shuffling of papers, draws attention. All are called to stand as the robed justices file in and sit in carved wood chairs behind the elevated bench.
Keeping up with new technology and changing readership habits are two of the biggest challenges for our industry and certainly for The News Tribune.
Tacoma City Council members held an impressively thoughtful and candid conversation Tuesday night about which of the seven semifinalists for city manager they would make finalists.
A strange little graffiti battle transpired over the past week at the top of a highway off-ramp in Tacoma.
Few news story characters stay with us for 10 years the way Cecil Leading Horse has. Fewer still have left such a legacy.
To all of you who grasp my hand when you meet me and lament the death of our business …
As new technology makes communication easier, it complicates efforts to monitor the official activities of public officials. It also complicates the efforts of public officials to have the private lives they deserve.
Imagine her surprise when News Tribune food critic Sue Kidd read a review of a Tacoma restaurant on Facebook that sounded almost word-for-word like one she had written.
We’re going a little retro beginning with today’s newspaper.
You may notice something unusual about today’s News Tribune. It includes an undercover investigation.
Last week, a reader wrote to complain that our reporting on the Tacoma teachers’ strike was so biased against teachers and their union, she had to quit reading.
Tacoma schoolkids were out of class last week, but members of our news staff were gaining an education.
In the world of newspapers, sometimes smaller is better.
It’s hard to believe, but a recent court ruling essentially allowed our governor to wave a magic wand over public documents and make them private.
First or most accurate? How do you like your news?
John Shalikashvili was an impressive man – a foreign-born draftee who rose to the highest rank in the military, an adviser to President Bill Clinton and a leader of humanitarian efforts overseas.
The News Tribune has a decades-long tradition of hosting summer college interns. Several current staff members served here as interns – cops reporter Stacey Mulick, features editor Dusti Demarest and local news editor Matt Misterek among them.
A lot of people got really upset at the behavior of some newspaper reporters and executives last week. I must say, I’m glad they did.
Most of the calls that come to the editor are, appropriately, about news. But lately readers have been calling or writing me about ads in the paper.
A photograph that ran on our front page Thursday didn’t seem like anything special. It was of President Barack Obama speaking to the country about his plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
At a time when technology has blessed – or cursed – us with more sources of information than ever, a report last week by the Federal Communications Commission warned of a shortage of a specific kind of news.
You will notice some changes in Sunday’s paper – at least, most of you will. They’re not big changes, and if we’ve done our homework, we will have added some things most of you will enjoy and taken away some things fewer of you will miss.
Successfully navigating a session of the state Legislature requires teamwork and collaboration. Certainly that’s the case for state senators and representatives. It also is true for news outlets, such as The News Tribune, that cover Washington’s Statehouse.
Here’s a scary thought for an editor: On Friday, almost 90 years of experience and accumulated local knowledge walked out the door of The News Tribune in the form of three staff members.
Maybe a community can get along just fine without watchdogs.
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Communities, for the most part, are made up of people.
Generally, I use this space to write about us. Today, I’m using it to write about you.
Sometimes routine coverage decisions draw unexpected backlash from readers; other times we spend hours wrestling with a decision that draws unexpected silence from readers. Last week, it was the latter.
Sometimes sunshine is hard to come by.
Writing good headlines is as much art as it is journalism, and some days we’re more artistic than others.
Sometimes inspiration comes from the unlikeliest place. For the TNT newsroom, it came three months ago in the form of 99-year-old Elizabeth Poinsett.
Share with your friends. Don’t steal. Be nice.
Today we’re playing a round of You Be the Editor. Your job is to read comments posted at thenewstribune.com – and flagged as questionable by fellow commenters – and decide whether each one stays.
Sudoku man, meet your No. 1 fan. And when it comes to Sudoku puzzles, TNT reader James Lee knows what he’s talking about.
The News Tribune has just redesigned its front page. Didn’t notice it?
Putting together a front page is more art than science, but the truth is that we and most newspapers have a formula for doing it.
To those wondering if there is a future in journalism, I say yes. I can see it sitting in our newsroom.
It sounds so simple: Our primary mission is to provide local news.
Journalists like to think people buy the newspaper solely to read our fine prose. But one week on our reader representative desk – a rotating requirement of every member of the TNT newsroom – is all it takes to disabuse a journalist of that notion.
You may have noticed the phrase leading into today’s front-page story about Mount Rainier National Park: “A News Tribune exclusive.” Actually, it says, “A NEWS TRIBUNE EXCLUSIVE,” in all caps and red letters. It’s rather melodramatic, really, like when a local television station says the same thing about its story at the top of the hour.
When the lights first went out Monday night, I thought my only concern would be having enough batteries for the one flashlight I could find at home.
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