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Welcome To Newsroom Magazine
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Thanks To You We're Growing Faster Than Ever Before
Chances are you've noticed that Newsroom Magazine is a very different publication.
We care about journalism -- and we're well aware many other organizations do it far better than we.
Our editorial standards, rules of custody, and skeptical editing for everything we produce, disseminate or expose to public viewing reflects a seriousness of purpose.
Six years after our founding, Newsroom Magazine continues to evolve the online publishing and preservation model we pioneered.
There is good news to share: Newsroom Magazine is is thriving.
And some less good news: Our limited resources, both journalistically and financially, are limiting our expansion of content.
Online News Preservation
In the six years since its founding, Newsroom Magazine has extended the field of news publishing into previously uncharted areas.
We take a long range view of news -- one that considers both timeliness and historical merit.
What we do, and how we do it, was not possible in the print media era -- for our content is both timely and timeless in the sense that we share the power of immediacy with all online media plus the perseverance of an encyclopedia.
Newsroom Magazine's publishing model goes beyond immediacy -- for unlike the newspaper era -- what we publish is permanently preserved. And tagged, indexed, and constantly updated by automated sitemap sharing with Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, Sogou, Ewatch, Alexa, Facebook, and others at home and far away.
All of our content, is meant to be preserved. Thanks to the capture and storage of our content at Google, including all updates and changes, and full collection archiving by the U.S. Internet Archives, everything we say, write, opine -- whether wise, foolish, or inconsequential-- is preserved.
Newsroom Magazine content remains forever online, searchable and accessible 24 hours a day worldwide.
What's Hot Is Rarely What Matters
What we publish today is rarely as timely as the more traditional publications and online newspapers. What we choose to publish, sometimes days or months after a story first breaks, or on a subject neglected by most commercial media, is chosen to reflect one aspect of an ongoing reality for long term preservation.
From a handful of English-only readers when we published our first article -- the 1958 Edward R. Murrow speech before the Radio Television Directors Association in Chicago -- we have grown and wizened about our responsibilities to our readers and our own limitations and shortfalls.
Our most read article so far this year, The Adventures Of Bernie In Wonderland, was published November 23rd, 2009. The article consists of the unexpurgated SEC interview of Harry Markopolos in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi swindle case. It is not very interesting reading and it is very long -- but we published it in the belief that what it revealed was important and unlikely to remain online in its original format.
Newsroom Magazine's Storehouse Grows Every Day
The number of publications who devote themselves to publishing credible, responsible and probative content for posterity has dwindled.
Today Newsroom Magazine publishes a storehouse of credible, probative and relevant content -- well over 5000 articles including commentaries, essays, definitions, photographs, stories, reviews, discussions, tutorials, and logical explanations.
Our readership is nearly three times was it was only last year. Few might come to our content for entertainment -- for our purpose is otherwise.
If You Publish, They Will Come
We are read on Capitol Hill, along K Street, and in the halls of government inside the beltway and around the world.
We are read daily on college campuses at home and abroad. We're visited from military ships at sea. We serve law-firms, major corporations, Wall Street the UK Parliament, state governments and cities with credible useful information.
Some of the world's most prestigious news organizations use Newsroom Magazine for fact-checking.
Government Information Unfiltered, Sometimes Imperfect
The amount of official news proffered each day by government, whether at home or abroad, is accelerating. Some of it newsworthy, most of it not.
Our job is to thoughtfully choose what's worthy of the attention of our readers.
About 1% of government issued news we receive each day qualifies as newsworthy. Only the most relevant, or reflective of government at its best, or at its worst, or evidence of overreach, or ineptitude makes it newsworthy.
We leave the issue of deciding which if any of these qualifications applies to what we publish up to the reader.
Formatted For People On The Go, Or On The Hunt
All of our government news content includes above the headline call out meant to convey the principal facts, action or information for those with little time to read a long document.
Our job is to carefully and skeptically choose relevant governmental content for our readers -- and to include the unexpurgated original source material, whose chain of custody we control.
Online Editorial Standards, Ethics And Purpose
Our commitment to time-honored journalistic standards and a clear statement about the ethics to which we agree to be held today and tomorrow, Newsroom Magazine began publication when the Internet was young -- 2006.
Our prime mission then, as now, is to publish non political ideas, definitions, essays and editorials.
To speak to the state of this honorable calling.
And to inform the public about those things, events and ideas that matter most to us all.
Today, tomorrow, forever.
Editorial Standards & Policies
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What happened to the news quality in the States and in Britain in the 1980s (and perhaps earlier) and 1990s is happening now to Eastern and Central Europe. So while we may have more people here in the west who have grown up to mediocre news coverage, and the fusion of news and entertainment, in the east, this phenomena is just unfolding.
George Manev
East Lansing
Newsroom Magazine’s Growing European Readership
European readers will not be surprised to learn that Newsroom Magazine’s widest overseas readership is Europe. Not just western Europe, but Eastern and Central Europe as well. More the point, while Newsroom’s overall European readership continues to grow, the number of visitors from former Soviet bloc nations might better be described as exploding.
Earlier this year, the growth in Newsroom’s European readership was the subject of an internal discussion. Our conversations led to compelling new insight into why — largely provided by Newsroom Magazine contributor George Manev who grew up in what is now known as The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
We thought Manev’s analysis worthy of sharing with our world-wide readership.
When Publisher Robert Butche wondered why Eastern and Central European readers significantly outnumber those from Spain, Italy, France and Germany, Manev spoke about his roots based on having become bi-cultural by way of his educational experiences at Michigan State University.
George Manev
Thoughts On Newsroom Magazine’s Growing European Readership
In the last decade, entertainment values have spread far beyond U. S. media. American culture and media are felt world-wide. No one should be surprised that failing journalistic standards that have so badly damaged American news media — especially broadcast — travel elsewhere. Let me assure you that the entertainment values afflicting American media are already spreading across Central and Eastern Europe.
Some of the reasons for increasing numbers of Central and Eastern European readers could be the lack of local media who talk about the issues that newsroom magazine covers — especially in their own respective languages. With the implementation of Newsrooms translation capabilities, people are a click away from and easily able to choose and read what they want – so convenience matters. Some of it could be that the breadth of subject matter, and clarity of presentation — especially in its coverage of the downfall of news, investigative journalism, relevance, probity etc — rings true to readers in the east than in the west.
What happened to news quality in the States and in Britain in the 1980s ( and perhaps earlier ) and 1990s is happening now to Eastern and Central Europe. So while we may have more people here in the west who have become accustomed up to mediocre news coverage, and the fusion of news and entertainment, in the east, this phenomena is still unfolding.
Cultural And Historical Roots
Another point to consider is that recent historical events matter – a free, relevant and probative press has been the bedrock leading to political, social and economic change in eastern and central Europe. The fall of the Berlin wall and its effect on Europe for example, still feels like yesterday in many of those countries. As such, the topic of news and its evolution, is of unique importance to those in the east. I do not want to diminish its importance in the west, but cultural values, rule of law, working democracy and the comfort of life, to name a few, are common here in the west. So common, they tend to make us somewhat more loyal to our government — yet increasingly mistrustful of the media that covers it.
In contrast, in the east, concepts of confidence in government are far less developed, and as such the media is still viewed by many as the main watchdog over their own ( often corrupt ) governments. This paints the media as a more trustworthy resource of information. That is at least the perception.
Thus, public interest of what happens to the news media, to those in the east, especially in such important places as in the United States, should not be surprising. Because what happens with the news here, will be exported to other countries. Decisions made by powerful people in relevant places easily resonate throughout the globe in a geopolitical, social and economic sense, and as such, a vibrant media which informs the decision makers and electorate to the best extent possible is of an immense importance.
Issues Of Responsibility And Accountability
Trusting one’s own government is in a sense a good thing, if power is not abused, but if it is, it can catch people off guard and by the time they awake ( including the media ) to what is going on….say an emperor having no clothes phenomenon…it may be too late.
Keep in mind that the public realization of those in power requires a trustworthy, relevant and probative media. The problem is to avoid promoting what economists call a moral hazard in those who govern — in which there is abuse of power. For there is a clear threshold at which people ( who start with high truest in government ) turn their backs or openly challenge authority by way of probative and relevant questions.
Exactly what a free and independent press ought to be doing.