Your host is Ken Otterbourg, the managing editor at the Winston-Salem Journal. It's a forum to discuss the media, from ethics to coverage, from grammar to graphics. I'd like to keep it somewhat focused on journalism in North Carolina, but we can cross the border when we need to. And from time to time, just to mix it up, we'll get into two of my other passions: food and history.
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» Job cuts at the Journal (32 Comments)
» Imus and us (20 Comments)
» Putting out a fire (17 Comments)
» Good grief (15 Comments)
» North Korea and the utility commission (12 Comments)
» By John Robinson on May 22
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» By Ken Otterbourg on May 20
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» Along the border (54 Comments, last comment on May 4)
» Job cuts at the Journal (32 Comments, last comment on November 27)
» Imus and us (20 Comments, last comment on April 16)
» Putting out a fire (17 Comments, last comment on June 28)
» Good grief (15 Comments, last comment on June 1)
» North Korea and the utility commission (12 Comments, last comment on October 12)
» A small victory (11 Comments, last comment on January 29)
» Changin’ times (11 Comments, last comment on September 20)
» The role of a columnist (10 Comments, last comment on April 30)
» Coverage changes (10 Comments, last comment on August 28)
» Good grief (10 Comments, last comment on January 15)
» Forks and spoons (10 Comments, last comment on May 11)
» Old-time country blog (10 Comments, last comment on April 25)
» Civic duty (10 Comments, last comment on May 4)
» Taking offense (10 Comments, last comment on February 21)
» Next 12 weeks (8 Comments, last comment on May 21)
» Tables turned (8 Comments, last comment on October 26)
» A death at the jail (8 Comments, last comment on July 21)
» A usable description (7 Comments, last comment on November 9)
» Naming names (part II) (7 Comments, last comment on October 3)
» One copy at a time (7 Comments, last comment on June 4)
» Turning the tables (7 Comments, last comment on October 6)
» Dip ‘em if you got ‘em (7 Comments, last comment on February 20)
» Definitions (7 Comments, last comment on January 30)
» Worth a visit (7 Comments, last comment on February 6)
» The Zen of headlines (7 Comments, last comment on February 6)
» Spouse in the house (6 Comments, last comment on April 9)
» Beyond the kudzu (6 Comments, last comment on January 14)
» The truth in Tehran (6 Comments, last comment on December 21)
» Buffalo hunts (6 Comments, last comment on April 20)
» Scarlet letters (6 Comments, last comment on March 22)
» Mister T (6 Comments, last comment on March 14)
» What it’s all about (6 Comments, last comment on February 9)
» Mastheads (5 Comments, last comment on May 16)
» From 20,000 feet (5 Comments, last comment on March 17)
» Behind the mask (5 Comments, last comment on February 11)
» Bypass in mourning (5 Comments, last comment on July 13)
» Media ripples (5 Comments, last comment on June 21)
» Blacksburg shootings (5 Comments, last comment on April 18)
» Apostrophe and E (5 Comments, last comment on March 7)
» Princesses and planets (5 Comments, last comment on September 1)
» Lock, stocks and barrel (5 Comments, last comment on June 22)
» Beyond the front page (5 Comments, last comment on June 21)
» Dead in Iraq (5 Comments, last comment on June 20)
» PJ did it (5 Comments, last comment on March 6)
» Getting at the truth (5 Comments, last comment on February 7)
» Radio daze (4 Comments, last comment on May 13)
» Drumroll (stick) please … (4 Comments, last comment on November 27)
» Front-page ads, hot dog update (4 Comments, last comment on October 26)
» Leapin’ lizards (4 Comments, last comment on September 18)
» Three-day weekend (4 Comments, last comment on September 4)
» Stop the presses (4 Comments, last comment on August 10)
» Summer fun (4 Comments, last comment on July 20)
» Looking for answers (4 Comments, last comment on April 30)
» Shoot, send and publish (4 Comments, last comment on March 9)
» Suspensions and allegations (4 Comments, last comment on February 3)
» Mid-winter thaw (4 Comments, last comment on January 22)
» A glimpse into the future (4 Comments, last comment on November 1)
» Receiving a settlement (4 Comments, last comment on October 24)
» Warrants and puzzles (4 Comments, last comment on September 26)
» Naming names (4 Comments, last comment on July 15)
» Kitty litter (4 Comments, last comment on July 13)
» Moving pictures (4 Comments, last comment on May 23)
» Home teams (4 Comments, last comment on April 20)
» Cats and steeples (4 Comments, last comment on March 25)
» Sex and the stylebook (4 Comments, last comment on March 15)
» The soapbox, (3 Comments, last comment on May 6)
» Catching up (3 Comments, last comment on April 21)
» Once every 1461 days (3 Comments, last comment on March 3)
» Eclipsed (3 Comments, last comment on February 26)
» Edwards, Iowa and beyond (3 Comments, last comment on December 26)
» Late delivery (3 Comments, last comment on December 20)
» Shake your boombsey (3 Comments, last comment on November 16)
» Awaiting notification (3 Comments, last comment on November 21)
» The publisher and the parkway (3 Comments, last comment on October 30)
» Jocks and journalism (3 Comments, last comment on July 18)
» Lost in the woods (3 Comments, last comment on March 21)
» Game time (3 Comments, last comment on March 19)
» The checkered front (3 Comments, last comment on February 20)
» The lighter side of Page One (3 Comments, last comment on January 13)
» Civil and uncivil (3 Comments, last comment on November 30)
» Playing the ponies (3 Comments, last comment on November 18)
» The congresswoman and the newspaper (3 Comments, last comment on November 3)
» Wakened by the quakin’ (3 Comments, last comment on October 19)
» Change in the West (3 Comments, last comment on October 17)
» The Amish and us (3 Comments, last comment on October 7)
» Back to the real world (3 Comments, last comment on August 19)
» Having fun? (3 Comments, last comment on June 23)
» Talking the talk (3 Comments, last comment on June 7)
» After the first 1,000 (3 Comments, last comment on June 6)
» The Funny Pages (3 Comments, last comment on May 25)
» Protest movements (3 Comments, last comment on May 2)
» Brand names (3 Comments, last comment on April 6)
» Darwin was right (3 Comments, last comment on March 22)
» Deal, no deal (3 Comments, last comment on March 13)
» Mirrors and windows (3 Comments, last comment on March 12)
» Along the ridgeline (3 Comments, last comment on March 1)
» Point, shoot and chat (3 Comments, last comment on February 26)
» E-Y-E C-H-A-R-T (3 Comments, last comment on February 23)
» Calling 911 (3 Comments, last comment on February 3)