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Lyle Muller wrote a new blog post: Audience still being sought for legislative webcasts 1 year, 1 month ago · View
DES MOINES — Gov. Terry Branstad’s “Condition of the State” address drew the most eyeballs to the live video feed from the Iowa House of Representatives this year. This was the first year that either legislative chamber went online with live, streaming video. The move, which cost the state $130,000 to install six video cameras, [...] -
Lyle Muller wrote a new blog post: Changing the world — it’s a work in progress in the news business 1 year, 1 month ago · View
A bunch of former newspaper executive editors responded recently to a request by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University to answer this question: What would you change if you were back in charge? Answers ran the gamut. Trust that news still sells papers. Care about the journalism above all else. Focus more on digital delivery of [...]
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Lyle Muller commented on the blog post Forum examines issues confronting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth 1 year, 2 months ago · View
A string of comments has been removed because they contained personal attacks.
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Lyle Muller wrote a new blog post: Gazette introducing eighth-graders to journalism with a free summer camp 1 year, 2 months ago · View
I have a few things to take care of before moving on after 25 years at the Gazette . One of them is to make one last pitch about the merits of a worthwhile summer writing program we do with Quota International of Cedar Rapids Inc . — the Neighborhood Beat Program. I am writing about the program in my [...] -
Lyle Muller wrote a new blog post: The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA) adds a D.C. correspondent 1 year, 2 months ago · View
The Gazette has hired a new Washington, D.C., correspondent — J. Taylor Rushing. Rushing is a 22-year reporting veteran whose experience before reporting in Washington as a freelancer and at The Hill newspaper was as the Florida state capital bureau chief for the Florida Times-Union and in reporting gigs in Fort Worth, Texas; Baton Rouge, La.; Kenosha, Wis..; [...]
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Lyle Muller wrote a new blog post: Live chats planned to discuss Gazette commenting 1 year, 2 months ago · View
We hear often from people who say there is no way they would write a comment after news stories at TheGazette.com because of the negative, personal tone they’d have to endure. Suggest an idea and the personal attack on you can be swift, readers tell us, so they stay out of the conversation. Plus, anything seems [...]
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Lyle Muller wrote a new blog post: Responses to reader comments about what they see in The Gazette 1 year, 2 months ago · View
A reader sent me a clipping of two-paragraph brief that was inside The Gazette one March day. The brief told about President Obama’s proposed budget, which projects a $1.3 trillion deficit that would drop to $575 billion in 2018 with tax increases and tighter spending that Obama seeks. Why is this not on front page? It is [...] -
Lyle Muller commented on the blog post Legislative climate is obscene, not Trudeau’s comics 1 year, 2 months ago · View
Displaying comics in public view hardly is censorship; and we displayed them. We also told people where to view them. Censors keep that kind of access from people, not in public view. We put the comics on the opinion page where people could have a conversation about the issue that Garry Trudeau raised, which, of [...]
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Lyle Muller wrote a new blog post: E-mail to The Gazette staff about new post at IowaWatch.org 1 year, 2 months ago · View
Today (Tues., March 20) I told the newsroom at The Gazette and KCRG-TV9 that I am leaving the company as Gazette editor to become executive director of the non-profit Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism , which runs the IowaWatch.org web site that displays original investigative and public affairs reporting. The center also seeks reporting partnerships with existing [...]
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Lyle Muller commented on the blog post Traditional marriage proponents plan rally at Iowa Capitol Thursday 1 year, 3 months ago · View
Comment refers to earlier version. Copy has been corrected.
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Lyle Muller wrote a new blog post: Integrity report to shed light on how open Iowa government is 1 year, 3 months ago · View
UPDATED MONDAY, MARCH 19: Go here for the State Integrity Investigation story that ran in The Gazette. The IowaWatch.org story is here . * * * The Monday, March 19, copy of The Gazette will report a new national study of the safeguards states have in place to fight corruption in state government. Called the State Integrity Investigation , the study [...]
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Lyle Muller wrote a new blog post: Gazette to run ‘Doonesbury’ abortion law comics on Saturday, March 17, Opinion Page 1 year, 3 months ago · View
The Saturday, March 17, Gazette opinion page will run the “Doonesbury” comics for March 13-17 that deal with the Texas abortion law sonogram requirements. Accompanying the strips will be a column by The Gazette’s Jennifer Hemmingsen and a guest opinion, with an expectation of letters to the editor to follow UPDATE: A guest column was not procured for [...]
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Lyle Muller commented on the blog post The Gazette’s plans for Doonesbury’s controversial comics March 12-17 1 year, 3 months ago · View
It is not censorship when a link to the strips, publishing one that deals with the issue and publishing original strips Trudeau also drew for this week are part of the decision. Censorship is keeping it from seeing the light of day, which is not the intent. This is a decision about what we are [...]
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Lyle Muller wrote a new blog post: The Gazette’s plans for Doonesbury’s controversial comics March 12-17 1 year, 3 months ago · View
UPDATE 3/15/12: Some interesting stories have been written during the week about this week’s “Doonesbury” comics. Here are a few links: Garry Trudeau: ‘Doonesbury’ Abortion Furor ‘Good for Business’; Wall Street Journal If ‘Doonesbury’ skipped abortion law controversy, it would be ‘comedy malpractice,’ says cartoonist Gary Trudeau What’s all the fuss about? Doonesbury and the American Family Doonesbury’ creator [...]
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Lyle Muller commented on the blog post C.R. tax supporters ‘done with the issue’ 1 year, 3 months ago · View
Some personal attacks have been deleted, per the rules of engagement. Please be civil. Also, some responses to those attacks have been deleted because context for them no longer exists.
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Lyle Muller commented on the blog post The Gazette is seeking your input 1 year, 3 months ago · View
I have passed this on to our customer care department so that it can find resolution. We will keep trying to provide the delivery service expected. The survey is about reader habits and interests instead of specific complaints. I know you have been there before, based on your note, but customer care is the best [...]
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Lyle Muller wrote a new blog post: Answers to Gazette readers hit sports, business, news 1 year, 3 months ago · View
We ask this on the form customers use to continue their Gazette subscriptions: Do you have a story idea for The Gazette? “What local companies are doing in our community, and helping our local economy with job growth and competition, like ImOn Communications ,” one customer responded. Whether that was a pitch for writing about local [...]
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Lyle Muller commented on the blog post Story comments get their own space at TheGazette.com 1 year, 3 months ago · View
The question of why people cannot just ignore the comments is a fair one and deserves an answer: When left with the story the comments become part of that story regardless of whether or not readers are interested in the comments. They become a “push” that people have to deal with when they don’t want [...]
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Lyle Muller wrote a new blog post: The Gazette is seeking your input 1 year, 3 months ago · View
The Gazette is seeking your thoughts as we look forward to the rest of 2012. We are conducting an online survey in which we ask about your reading habits, your experience with The Gazette and the kinds of coverage you’d like to see from us. We want to learn from you so that we are [...]
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Lyle Muller commented on the blog post Story comments get their own space at TheGazette.com 1 year, 3 months ago · View
I have received a lot of good feedback here. Thank you, everyone, for taking the time with your specific points. As you know if you are a regular TheGazette.com reader we keep tweaking the system. The goal is to make it work for as many people as we can. A few notes: Regarding photos: they [...]
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