Members who are facing a tough decision about editorial policy, newsgathering issues, journalism ethics or any number of other topics can get almost immediate help from their colleagues via the ISWNE Hotline. Questions invariably receive quick, perceptive and informed responses, often from people who have encountered a similar situation at their newspapers.
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I have just hired a very energetic and dynamic woman to be my advertising manager. Yay! Finally! I now have a staff that consists of myself and her.
This afternoon my newest reporter (still under company-standard 90-day probationary period) texted me to say last night he received a DUI, first offense. While off the clock and with his personal vehicle, he flipped an illegal U-turn on Main Street and a local officer pulled him over. During…
To keep businesses from essentially getting free advertising for small donations to nonprofit or government entities, I require the donation to be at least $500 before I'll publish it as news. However, I'm wondering if $500 is too low.
In the coming months, our area's largest daily newspaper will be converting from a traditionally funded newspaper business to not-for-profit. The not-for-profit organization's website says it plans to partner with schools, municipal governments, public universities, etc. for grant funds, sta…
We have had issues with our newspapers being stolen, and the latest iteration of this has started happening at the Post Office.
I'm revisiting our options for providing health insurance benefits to our small team (~4 full time, ~2 part time) here in Indiana. I found a hotline thread about it from 2017, but I know the insurance landscape has changed a bit since then.
