Ken Paulson
Ken Paulson
Ken Paulson is the dean of the College of Media and Entertainment at Middle Tennessee State University, and president of the Newseum Institute's First Amendment Center. He is also the former editor-in-chief of USA Today and remains a columnist on USA Today's board of contributors, writing about First Amendment issues. He is the author and narrator of "Freedom Sings,"a multimedia stage show celebrating the First Amendment that continues to tour the nation's campuses...
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We posted that in the early evening. That generated extensive coverage in the media, most of which credited USA TODAY. We then gave our readers an extended interview and full details in the next day's paper.
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USA TODAY is pleased to recognize the achievements of some of the nation's finest teachers, ... Their collective work inspiring and educating the next generation is a testament to their remarkable creativity, passion and commitment.
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USA TODAY is pleased to honor students who travel so many different paths to gain success at America's community colleges. Their impressive achievements reflect their talent and commitment, as well as the environment of opportunity on community college campuses.
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This year's honorees represent a new generation with passion, promise and a global perspective. We're pleased to be able to salute the good work and commitment of these outstanding students, all of whom are destined to make a difference.
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We did a special report explaining our involvement in it, a chronology of our participation. We told the entire back-story that most people didn't know about, how the source got involved, what deals he cut with '60 Minutes.'
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We're increasingly inclined to put our scoops on the Web before publication in the newspaper. Our guiding principle should be to serve our readers first, getting news and information out as quickly as possible. It's also true that some stories just work better in print, particularly enterprise and investigative work with multiple elements and greater depth and length. The key is to tailor the content to the platform.
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we actually had reporters who had a pretty good sense of where the information came from with '60 Minutes.' It was a source that we knew and we had been talking to that we hoped would shed light on things for us.
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our reporters publishing this story were kind of proud of the fact that they had identified '60 Minutes' source and gotten the documents from that source rather than the White House.
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at the same time this source is giving us the documents they have given to '60 Minutes,' the White House is releasing the same documents to the entire press corps.
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How do we catch up? How can we put something in our paper tomorrow that moves the story forward? And that's all that happened.
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In 23 years in newsrooms, I saw consistent and concerted efforts to get stories right. Clearly, the public's not convinced.
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Steven Tepper's Not Here, Not Now, Not That! offers invaluable insights into how social change and uncertainty drive protests over art. With fresh data and perspectives, Tepper makes a compelling case that cultural conflicts are largely homegrown, tied to each community's shifting demographics and values. It's an eye-opening work.
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That's an area of particular satisfaction, where we made a difference?