NEW MEXICO
Clovis New Journal

April 30, 2016

Wendel Sloan

While attending the recent New Mexico Press Women Convention (open to everyone) in Albuquerque, I heard several panelists discuss the state of journalism.

With so many competing news sources, staff sizes have been sliced. Thousands of veteran journalists have lost their jobs, with newspapers and broadcast media often retaining less experienced and lower paid reporters.

Editors and news directors no longer have the luxury of assigning seasoned reporters to stories requiring in-depth research. …

Webber said we “spend too much time thinking about success and not significance.”

The media play an absolutely critical role in rooting out unfairness, corruption and the abuse of power, Webber says.

He used the movie “Spotlight” about pedophile priests as an example.

“Everybody knew about them, but nobody wrote about them until the ‘Boston Globe’ dared to investigate. The silence of acquiescence is not…