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campaign and the question of biased reporting arose at the time. When we determined the reporter had no assignments for news coverage, it proved a non-issue. Nonetheless, the incident illustrates our antenna for fair reporting.
Past affiliations and even views expressed casually in the newsroom will factor into our consideration of biased reporting. We address these symptoms by sitting with the reporter, assessing the depth of involvement and determining whether to pull them off the assignment in question. Truth is, this sort of grilling rarely needs to occur, though some of our readers might call for it on a weekly basis!
We wrestle with question of conflict and balanced reporting all the time in our business — probably to a fault. Some purists in the newsroom resist lifting a finger to help fellow staff or community folks on worthy projects, all in the lofty name of “journalistic integrity.” They see conflicts everywhere — When reporters write
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