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Masthead spring 2017 issue: Nominate college faculty
- By: ASNE staff
- On: 06/08/2017 11:06:59
- In: Opinion journalism
Masthead, the leading journal for editorial writers, opinion-page editors and columnists since the 1940s, is up at ASNE.org in a brief spring 2017 issue:
Newest articles:
- Help diversity in journalism education
- American journalism has a mixed record. The ASNE diversity survey and the Barry Bingham Sr. Fellowship are ongoing efforts at improvement. You can nominate a worthy college educator until June 23.
- Flashbacks
- There seems to be no end of disagreement about Confederate flags and memorials with intensely emotional opposite meanings.
- More on how the EditWrite discussion list helps editorial pages, letters editors and columnists.
- Opinionizers' early convention plan
- The Opinion Journalism Committee in ASNE has been working on fall convention programming specific to punditry and letters and potentially of interest to many other editors.
Recent articles:
- Editing cartoons?
- What some editors said about this concept.
- Headlines some would like to see
- Annual tradition at some newspapers can be fun, help set an editorial agenda, provide material in slow, shorter-staffed holiday weeks. With visual examples.
- Help the sun shine locally this year
- There's plenty of red meat to go after in the nation's capital, but the obvious target is not always the best target. ... consider focusing on local and state governments.
- Letters to editors zoom - in number and testiness
- If letters to the editor can be used as a temperature gauge on public opinion, then readers across the country are running a fever.
All Masthead 2017 articles, new and old, can be found here.