For interesting content regarding a resident's concerns about The Monterey County Herald’s recent publication of a Guest Commentary, submitted corrections, a “corrections” Letter to the Editor and the Committee of Concerned Journalists Executive Director’s response, please click on the title (link) above.
Conflict of Interest? A Guest Commentary, A Letter to the Editor, and Corrections Standards
CCJ Staff, An exchange between CCJ Executive Director Jeffrey Dvorkin and a concerned citizen, October 16, 2006
Additionally, the following is information about the Committee of Concerned Journalists, (http://www.concernedjournalists.org/). This organization’s overriding belief is that the “purpose of journalism is to provide citizens with accurate and reliable information they need to function in a free society.” And whose members are concerned with today’s journalism “standards.”
About CCJ Executive Director Jeffrey Dvorkin:
Jeffrey Dvorkin assumed the role of Executive Director of CCJ in July 2006.
Prior to becoming CCJ’s Executive Director, Jeffrey Dvorkin was with National Public Radio; as the organization’s first Ombudsman (2000-2006), author of an online column, Vice President for News & Information (1997-2000). Prior to his positions with NPR, he was Managing Editor and Chief Journalist at CBC Radio (1991-1997), a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Dvorkin’s broadcast journalism career, which included upholding “editorial standards and ensuring the excellence of news and information programming,” spanned almost 30 years.
Committee of Concerned Journalists (CCJ)
CCJ History:
“On a rainy Saturday in June 1997, twenty-five journalists gathered at the Harvard Faculty Club...They were there because they thought something was seriously wrong with their profession. They barely recognized what they considered journalism in much of the work of their colleagues. Instead of serving a larger public interest, they feared, their profession was damaging it.”
(Source: http://www.concernedjournalists.org/about_ccj/history)
CCJ People:
“The Committee of Concerned Journalists is a consortium of reporters, editors, producers, publishers, owners, and academics concerned about the direction of and pressures facing American journalism. Created in June 1997, the group aims to clarify standards and principles in journalism by bringing journalists together to discuss their craft, its purpose and what sets it apart from other forms of communication.”
(Source: http://www.concernedjournalists.org/about_ccj/staff)
CCJ’s Core Principles
A Statement of Concern
A Statement of Shared Purpose
A Citizens' Bill of Rights
(Source: http://www.concernedjournalists.org/node/385)
Note: The Monterey County Herald’s Executive Editor, Carolina Garcia, IS NOT a member of CCJ.
1 comment:
Carolina Garcia, the "stenographer," is so obviously a token by virtue of her race and gender. The former grant writer and Latina columist on Latino affairs did not use the opportunities afforded her to develop the professional skill sets required to be a competent journalist. So instead we get someone promoted beyond her competence, generalized Peter Principle in action, to editor of an inconsequential newspaper, a newspaper of columns, cartoons and comics. All in the name of political correctness, the antithesis of meritocracy.
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