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Thanks To You We're Growing Faster Than Ever Before
Chances are you've noticed that Newsroom Magazine is a very different publication.
We care about journalism -- and we're well aware many other organizations do it far better than we.
Our editorial standards, rules of custody, and skeptical editing for everything we produce, disseminate or expose to public viewing reflects a seriousness of purpose.
Six years after our founding, Newsroom Magazine continues to evolve the online publishing and preservation model we pioneered.
There is good news to share: Newsroom Magazine is is thriving.
And some less good news: Our limited resources, both journalistically and financially, are limiting our expansion of content.
Online News Preservation
In the six years since its founding, Newsroom Magazine has extended the field of news publishing into previously uncharted areas.
We take a long range view of news -- one that considers both timeliness and historical merit.
What we do, and how we do it, was not possible in the print media era -- for our content is both timely and timeless in the sense that we share the power of immediacy with all online media plus the perseverance of an encyclopedia.
Newsroom Magazine's publishing model goes beyond immediacy -- for unlike the newspaper era -- what we publish is permanently preserved. And tagged, indexed, and constantly updated by automated sitemap sharing with Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, Sogou, Ewatch, Alexa, Facebook, and others at home and far away.
All of our content, is meant to be preserved. Thanks to the capture and storage of our content at Google, including all updates and changes, and full collection archiving by the U.S. Internet Archives, everything we say, write, opine -- whether wise, foolish, or inconsequential-- is preserved.
Newsroom Magazine content remains forever online, searchable and accessible 24 hours a day worldwide.
What's Hot Is Rarely What Matters
What we publish today is rarely as timely as the more traditional publications and online newspapers. What we choose to publish, sometimes days or months after a story first breaks, or on a subject neglected by most commercial media, is chosen to reflect one aspect of an ongoing reality for long term preservation.
From a handful of English-only readers when we published our first article -- the 1958 Edward R. Murrow speech before the Radio Television Directors Association in Chicago -- we have grown and wizened about our responsibilities to our readers and our own limitations and shortfalls.
Our most read article so far this year, The Adventures Of Bernie In Wonderland, was published November 23rd, 2009. The article consists of the unexpurgated SEC interview of Harry Markopolos in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi swindle case. It is not very interesting reading and it is very long -- but we published it in the belief that what it revealed was important and unlikely to remain online in its original format.
Newsroom Magazine's Storehouse Grows Every Day
The number of publications who devote themselves to publishing credible, responsible and probative content for posterity has dwindled.
Today Newsroom Magazine publishes a storehouse of credible, probative and relevant content -- well over 5000 articles including commentaries, essays, definitions, photographs, stories, reviews, discussions, tutorials, and logical explanations.
Our readership is nearly three times was it was only last year. Few might come to our content for entertainment -- for our purpose is otherwise.
If You Publish, They Will Come
We are read on Capitol Hill, along K Street, and in the halls of government inside the beltway and around the world.
We are read daily on college campuses at home and abroad. We're visited from military ships at sea. We serve law-firms, major corporations, Wall Street the UK Parliament, state governments and cities with credible useful information.
Some of the world's most prestigious news organizations use Newsroom Magazine for fact-checking.
Government Information Unfiltered, Sometimes Imperfect
The amount of official news proffered each day by government, whether at home or abroad, is accelerating. Some of it newsworthy, most of it not.
Our job is to thoughtfully choose what's worthy of the attention of our readers.
About 1% of government issued news we receive each day qualifies as newsworthy. Only the most relevant, or reflective of government at its best, or at its worst, or evidence of overreach, or ineptitude makes it newsworthy.
We leave the issue of deciding which if any of these qualifications applies to what we publish up to the reader.
Formatted For People On The Go, Or On The Hunt
All of our government news content includes above the headline call out meant to convey the principal facts, action or information for those with little time to read a long document.
Our job is to carefully and skeptically choose relevant governmental content for our readers -- and to include the unexpurgated original source material, whose chain of custody we control.
Online Editorial Standards, Ethics And Purpose
Our commitment to time-honored journalistic standards and a clear statement about the ethics to which we agree to be held today and tomorrow, Newsroom Magazine began publication when the Internet was young -- 2006.
Our prime mission then, as now, is to publish non political ideas, definitions, essays and editorials.
To speak to the state of this honorable calling.
And to inform the public about those things, events and ideas that matter most to us all.
Today, tomorrow, forever.
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America Hits The Reset Button: The World Will Never Again Be The Same.
Every computer owner knows the feeling. Things go wrong. Systems fail. Mistakes are made. Then Bang! Everything comes to a sudden stop. The computer locks-up. Our work is lost. It’s time to start over — to return to the last known working model. That’s when we press the reset button — not to return to where we were, but to begin again, to restore what worked before, to rethink what we were doing, to do things differently. It’s not fun, but it’s essential to getting on with our lives.
Robert Butche
Washington
Back Up Thirty Years, Restart, Move On
The events overtaking the world today are of immense importance, for they are part of a massive and fundamental change that will define how mankind will live for many generations to come. If you think yourself immune, that your life has not taken a sharp turn, or that things in which you once believed remain intact, your own thinking may need to be reset as well. None of us wants to change our view of the world unless we’re certain there is absolutely no other choice. There isn’t — not for you or me, not for economic theory, not even for the government. The world we lived in for the last thirty years was one born of idealism, political activism, endless credit and immense hubris. It may have felt good. It may have made single issue believers happy or unhappy. It may have been profitable, or challenging, or tranquil. But it was not real.
System Failure — New Opportunity
In the years ahead, the implications from decades of belief in the imaginary in preference to the real will echo through our culture, institutions, government and politics. Economics and finance are only the first of many areas of American life in need of a fundamental reset. Government itself needs to be reset, as does journalism. Warring ideologies can no longer be permitted to hold hostage our political establishment, or hobble those charged with governing. Journalism must reform itself and reestablish clear paths to those places where citizens can find relevant, probative and credible information about things that matter most.
What’s happening today, amidst the turmoil of financial collapse, economic dislocation, political reversal, or governmental posturing is neither an economic adjustment, nor just another dip in the business cycle. It is evidence of systematic failure brought about by several decades of neglect, abdication of responsibility, unparalleled greed and opportunism. It is not inherently political in nature, but it has had, and will continue to have, significant, if not earth-shaking political ramifications.
Too Big To Fail Or Too Rich To Be Poor?
The events that will unfold in the years ahead go well beyond anything we’ve know before. In some areas the changes will have cyclical characteristics while other areas of America’s social fabric seem likely to experience something closer to a major sea change.
America's Built In Governor: The United States Senate
No matter what governments do to stem the tide of economic instability, the first wave of change, driven by well meaning governmental intervention has neither solved the problem, nor mitigated damages. The problem has not been a lack of good intentions, or political resolve. For what we have done is to demand that those who were the principal players in the collapse be our stewards in recovery. Today the Congress is surprised that those who ran off with so many people’s life savings, did pretty much the same with the billions they were awarded to stop doing bad things.
Governance By Reality
Clearly what is needed today, and may in fact be possible, is a reset in how government seeks to solve problems of its own making. Simple as it may sound, the governmental reset needs to return to a prior time when problems were solved, legislation enacted, and wars fought based on reality. But what is reality in a nation that knows little of what’s important after a quarter century of pseudo-news, celebrity news, crime coverage as entertainment and over acting talking heads?
While every American knows his or her own personal reality today, many know little of how far our nation has drifted. In only 25 years we’ve shifted from a society of responsible citizens sharing the burden to today’s failed model in which the educated and the wealthy prey upon the ignorant middle-class.
The Great American Reset will take years to unfold. Not because the last working version is not known, but because dealing with reality, doing what’s right, and sharing the burden take effort and require commitment. And because we have drifted so far from course, devalued hard work, ridiculed intellectual accomplishment, and substituted entertainment in place of information about what matters most. Governance by reality demands that all Americans know what’s real, relevant, probative and credible.
As a nation we have become obsessed with spreading our beliefs, values and biases to the world at large without sufficient understanding of our own flaws, or that level of intellectual integrity to first understand how the world looks to other peoples, different cultures, or value systems.
Having good intentions is no substitute for knowledge. Nor is wishing well an acceptable alternative for doing right. The world we live in is a very complex one not well governed by simplistic thinking, single issue values, or unfettered ignorance.