St. Louis Journalism Review Presents: OURNALISMOURNALISM REVIEWREVIEW Inside this issue: Daily Egyptian challenges Courage and coverage in real time by Jodi MacNeal chancellor’s ethics by Athena Chrysanthou Checking on the facts Remembering Roy Malone by Ben Lyons by Terry Ganey Activists draw attention to atomic city Review: McPhee and Bill Bradley by Don Corrigan by Michael Murray - PAGE 1 - 2018 • Volume 47 Number 348 • $8 St. Louis Journalism Review Presents: CONTRIBUTORS OURNALISM REVIEW Publisher William H. Freivogel Published by: Publisher of Gateway Journalism Review. Freivo- Artist Steve Edwards gel is a former editorial page deputy editor for Professional artist, Steve Edwards Studio. School of Journalism College the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and contributes to of Mass Communication St. Louis Public Radio. He is a member of the and Media Arts Missouri Bar. GJR Founder Charles Klotzer Deborah Tudor: interim dean The founder of the St. Louis Journalism Review. Kavita Karan: interim director Sherida Evans: School of Editor William A. Babcock Journalism, office manager Editor of Gateway Journalism Review. Former DON CORRIGAN senior international news editor and writing Don Corrigan is the editor-in-chief and co-pub- coach for the Christian Science Monitor. Media lisher of the Webster-Kirkwood Times, South Board of Advisers: ethics is his primary teaching and research area. County Times and West End Word newspapers in Jim Kirchherr, Don Corrigan, St. Louis. He also is a professor of journalism in Lisa Bedian, Tammy Merrett, the School of Communications at Webster Univer- Rita Csapo-Sweet, Steve Managing Editor Jin Lee sity in St. Louis, serving as a print adviser to the Perron, Eileen Duggan, Associate editor of the Gateway Journalism university newspaper. Michael D. Sorkin, David Review. Lee is a doctoral student in the SIUC P. Garino, Rick Stoff, Ted College of Mass Communications and Media Arts. TERRY GANEY Gest, Fred Sweet, William Previously she was a marketing manager at the Terry Ganey is the author of two New York Times Greenblatt, Lynn Venhaus, South Korean government agency brokering Daniel Hellinger, Robert A. intentional trade of media content. investigative reporting. He covered politics and Cohn, Michael E. Kahn, John bestsellersgovernment and for a the finalist Associated for the Press, Pulitzer the Prize St. Louis in P. Dubinsky, Gerald Early, Paul Business Director Zachary Sapienza Post-Dispatch and the Columbia Daily Tribune. Schoomer, Moisy Shopper, Business director of Gateway Journalism Review. Ray Hartmann, Ken Solomon, He is a doctoral student in the SIUC College of HANNAH ERIKSON Avis Meyer, Tom Engelhardt Mass Communications and Media Arts. Previ- Hannah Erickson has a B.A. in Communications ously, he was the education advertising manager from Regent University, and is currently The Gateway Journalism Review for the Chicago Sun-Times and debate coach at completing her M.S. of Mass Communication and GJR (USPS 738-450 ISSN: 0036- Washington University in St. Louis. Media Management from Southern Illinois University. 2972) is published quarterly, by Southern Illinois University Carbondale, School of Journalism, Design Chief Abbey La Tour JODI MACNEAL College of Mass Communication Design chief of Gateway Journalism Review. La Jodi (Davis) MacNeal is a freelance writer/editor and Media Arts, a non-profit entity. Tour is a student at Southern Illinois University and a former journalist at the Miami Herald and The office of publication is SIUC studying journalism and communication design. the Palm Beach Post. 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University, where he teaches film, television, and - PAGE 2 - - TABLE OF CONTENTS - 4 Columbia Tribune’s ‘Tragedy’ 8 Remembering Roy Malone 23 Are social media accounts 9 Roy Malone: A Journalism Review public records? original 24 Activists draw attention to 10 Courage and coverage in real atomic city time 27 Documentary movies draw 12 Checking on the facts attention to the atomic city 14 Trump, information chaos 28 Veteran author ‘On the Writing threaten free press, democracy Process’ 16 #MeToo, the press and due 30 The specter of the shark process 31 17 Spiritualism, celebrity and Cliches and distraction mass media 19 When fake is real and real is fake 32 Love it or hate it, social media 20 Daily Egyptian challenges drives this generation chancellor’s ethics 33 Bernstein to speak at 22 The reporter’s view First Amendment gala 34 Striking through Redskins bigotry: a media call to action 35 … and a P.S. - PAGE 3 - The publishing plant of the Columbia Daily Tribune. Columbia Tribune ‘Tragedy’ by Terry Ganey Eighteen months after GateHouse Media bought the family- 4,300 on Sunday have quit taking the Tribune. owned Columbia Daily Tribune, the staff has been slashed, The sale has cast a shadow over the legacy of the Waters readers are frustrated and circulation has plunged. family, which had operated the Tribune since 1905 before selling No doubt daily newspapers have retrenched within the last to GateHouse in October, 2016. After the Tribune’s downward 10 years in the face of market challenges. But the Tribune has spiral became obvious, Kennedy sent an email to Andy Waters, been bled dry to achieve financial results. As of mid-February, the newspaper’s former president and general manager. layoffs and departures had left the newspaper with one full time reporter in a city of more than 100,000. “What we are seeing here is a tragedy — a journalistic and civic tragedy,” said George Kennedy, former associate dean Apparently the of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. “One of the operational approach of Kennedy is the former managing editor of the Columbia Missourian,country’s best the small-sized journalism newspapers school’s teachinghas been gutted.”newspaper. He “GateHouse, unlike other knows from experience what developments are going uncovered publishers, is to strip as under the newspaper’s new ownership. “Apparently the operational approach of GateHouse, unlike much as they can out other publishers, is to strip as much as they can out of the expense of the expense side, the inevitably a pretty short term approach to things,” Kennedy said. side, theColumbia journalistic might side, feel and the maximizeTribune’s profit, demise which more is acutelyalmost journalistic side, and than other cities, since it hosts the nation’s oldest journalism maximize profit ... ” school, and many readers know the value of a local newspaper. Since the GateHouse acquisition, 3,000 daily subscribers and — George Kennedy - PAGE 4 - Dramatic changes began almost immediately after the newspaper was sold. The entire copy desk “was let go, and the newspaper switched to morning delivery. The Tribune’s editing and layout functions are now carried out by a GateHouse facility in Austin, Texas, where the copy is processed for many of the chain’s 125 papers.” “I asked if he had any regrets about selling the Tribune, and an explanation to readers in June 2017, then-publisher Rustan Burton he said he didn’t,” Kennedy said. “That leaves it up to the rest of us explained what was happening to the newspaper was a lot like pruning to have regrets.” dead branches from a tree to make it healthier. “We understand that you may be unhappy that we pruned some “Pruned some limbs” limbs, but we hope you will be glad that we are still here with deep Waters turned down a reporter’s request to be interviewed for roots,” Burton wrote. Six months later, Burton was “pruned” when he this story.