Blog: Rod Boyce: The editor's desk
Managing Editor Rod Boyce writes about the News-Miner and our community
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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The past and the present
Published February 3, 2009, 11:14 a.m.
It had been about 19 years since I last sat at a table in what used to be Harry’s Bar and Grill in downtown Sacramento. Now, on one night early last month and all these years later, the spot on that 4th Avenue corner was serving me a chicken Caesar salad rather than a Michelob. Read more and add a comment
Friday at the GOP
Published February 2, 2009, 12:14 p.m.
Just a word of thanks here to the Interior Republicans, who invited me to speak at their lunch this past Friday at the Westmark Hotel. I’m not the best at standing behind a podium, but the folks in the crowd made me feel welcome after just a few minutes. Read more and add a comment
A new name writing in D.C.
Published January 23, 2009, 11:01 a.m.
I’m a couple weeks late in writing this, but many readers have probably noticed by now that there’s a new name atop Daily News-Miner stories coming out of Washington, D.C. 1 comment
