Blog: Rod Boyce: The editor's desk
Managing Editor Rod Boyce writes about the News-Miner and our community
No comment
Published September 4, 2009, 10:55 a.m.
A few people have wondered why we aren’t allowing comments on the online version of the News-Miner’s four-part series on chronic inebriates. Read more and add a comment
Meeting the new governor
Published August 1, 2009, 2:36 p.m.
I’m a few days late with this, but here’s a “Thank you” to Gov. Sean Parnell, who visited with the Daily News-Miner editorial board Monday morning — before even 24 hours had elapsed since he took the oath of office on Sunday in Fairbanks. 2 comments
Sometimes a phone call is needed
Published July 13, 2009, 9:45 a.m.
A while back I wrote an item about how with publication comes responsibility. The issue came up when a reader called to complain about the amount of information we had provided in a crime story. 2 comments
When to publish, when not to publish
Published June 5, 2009, 12:13 p.m.
One of the questions we wrestle with here is “How much information is too much information?”
That’s a particularly troublesome question when it comes to reporting on crimes and court proceedings.
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Over there
Published May 5, 2009, 1:17 p.m.
Personnel in the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team out of Fort Wainwright are half a world away for a couple more months, but their interest in news out of Fairbanks hasn’t gone on hiatus while they serve in Iraq.
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Good for the environment
Published April 17, 2009, 11:13 a.m.
Betcha didn’t know this: The Daily News-Miner has been doing its part, for quite a while now, when it comes to conservation. Our newsprint consists of 50 percent recycled material. 1 comment
Why the difference when it comes to comments?
Published March 27, 2009, 10:40 a.m.
I received a query from a reader the other day regarding the comments that people leave on our Web site about stories. The reader asked me, as others sometimes do, about the different standard we apply to comments. Read more and add a comment
Comics comment deadline up ahead
Published March 22, 2009, 9:05 p.m.
I’ve been receiving lots of comments about comics. Ask any editor across the country what single item in the paper will bring loads of feedback from readers, and the funnies are likely at or somewhere near the top of the list. Read more and add a comment
Let's try something
Published March 14, 2009, 1:03 a.m.
It’s late at night, and I have an idea. I don’t know about you, but that’s when I seem to get ideas. Then I either have to get out of bed and write the idea on a scrap of paper or, as I’m doing now, bang it out on the laptop.
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Comics: What do you like?
Published March 10, 2009, 10:36 a.m.
Got a favorite comic strip you think should run in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner?
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