Category: Media

Mike Owens is hoping the visibility created during his 27 years as a news reporter on KSDK Channel 5 will help him win a seat in the Missouri State House during next Tuesday’s Democratic primary.

Owens, 61, is one of three candidates running in the newly-drawn 84th House District in the City of St. Louis. As no Republican has filed, whoever wins the primary will take the seat when the Legislature reconvenes next year. Others who have filed for the office are Hope Whitehead and Karla May, whose old House district includes part of the 84th.

The NBC affiliate in Iowa City has been subpoenaed for interview footage in a case of two missing girls. Please see the link below for the full story by Ryan J. Foley with the Associated Press.

Read the link here.

The St. Louis Beacon recently reported on former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Jake Wagman, who has gained some clients for his new research company possibly because of work he did as a reporter. Read the St. Louis Beacon story here. Tell us what you think.

An Illinois judge recently reversed his decision about the Illinois shield law. The judge originally ruled that a Website named TechnoBuffalo.com was not protected by shield laws.

Let’s all repeat the first rule of journalism: Get it right.

Rule number two may state that you also want to get it first, but getting it right is so much more important. And that fact seems to be disappearing in this age of skip the copy editor and get the story online immediately.

It’s all a rush to get it first. A few months ago, Joe Paterno was reported dead a day before he died. A reporter lost his job for that. He got it first but he got it wrong.

Things like that kill credibility.