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Welcome To Newsroom Magazine
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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.
Editorial Standards & Policies
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The Beauty Of America Lies In Its Peoples
Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Milwaukee
American Values Live On
Most of us sense that America is at a crossroads. Our confidence may be shaken and our reputation may be sullied, but this generation of Americans is up to the challenge. Today, many of your fellow countrymen are taking a stand, reaffirming traditional American values.
In communities large and small, Americans are pressing their shoulder to the wheel. Many are sharing sustenance with those Americans damaged by the greed and avarice of others. As a nation, adversity has changed us.
America The Beautiful
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Spoken By Robert Butche
For those who sense the land of the free and the home of the brave may have forgotten the very values that made possible our freedoms, there is good news. Our government may have lost its way and so may have the mighty, powerful and wealthy.
But clearly not the ordinary Americans who fought for our freedoms and created the wealth others have so easily squandered. Look around your own community, ask your neighbors, visit distant towns and villages.
Those troubled by recent events and dismayed at the immense failures of responsibility by those we trusted, take note — there is a new day dawning. It is not arising in Washington, nor being financed in New York. The new day unfolding before us is one of hope, rising from despair on a foundation of character and warmed by sharing. and renewed sense of community.
Land Of The Free, Home Of The Brave
Your fellow Americans know that America The Beautiful, the real one, not the one badly damaged by reckless bankers, or single-mindedly run into the ground by MBAs, lives on in the hearts and minds of ordinary citizens. Beautiful Americans are everywhere — in the big cities of the east, in small towns and villages that dot the vast prairies, along and atop the hills of Appalachia, astride our mighty mountains and communities large and small along our great rivers.
Real Americans live in places called Los Gatos, Kissimmee, Plymouth, Boise, DeKalb and Milwaukee. They come in all colors, at all ages, and from all faiths. They are Americans at heart, driven by confidence in one another, and steeped in values of fairness, sharing and doing what’s right.
Maybe you’ve been too preoccupied with your own problems to have noticed. The Beautiful America is still intact. It’s been quiet of late — drowned out by the clamor of those who forsook what our nation is all about, or those who dishonored themselves by stepping on others in their quest for a bigger piece of the pie you and other Beautiful Americans make possible.
But our voice, yours, mine and everyone else is being heard today. Perhaps not from you, or me, but from those long quiet, or too young to be thought responsible.
This Land Is Our Land
Perhaps you’ve wondered recently where we’re going as a nation. Many have had reason to wonder if we have lost our way. Some may have thought the enduring flame of honesty and integrity that has been the hallmark of the American experience in the last 227 years might have gone dark.
And with good reason. For in today’s swirl of reckless bankers, polarizing politicians, and immensely overpaid sports figures, ordinary Americans had good reason to wonder. Had their country forgotten from whence we arose? Had the land of the free and the home of the brave somehow abandoned the traditions of fairness and shared responsibility that made us the envy of the world?
We have not. No matter where you are, or the troubles that befall each of us today, America the Beautiful still lives, not just in song, but in the heart and minds of countless Americans. Did you know there still are responsible Americans in every town, cranny and city?
There are millions of us. Even the very young know what it means to be fair, responsible, and accountable. America’s New Dawn is arising on the hopes and aspirations of our children. It is in good hands, indeed.
Our Progeny, Our Values, Our Countrymen
If you’ve not heard Johntell Franklin’s story, you’ll surely want to — for he, his classmates, and his high school counterparts are Americans about whom we can all be proud. Any who might wonder if the generation who will inherit our mistakes is up to the challenge, take heed.
Although still in high school ( Milwaukee Madison ) Johntell Franklin’s story tells us something important about his generation of Americans.
Just last month, Johntell’s mother, Carlitha Franklin had been in remission from a long battle with cancer. Then, on Saturday morning, while son Jontell was taking his college ACT exam, she began to hemorrhage. According to Johntell’s Milwaukee Madison high school basketball coach, Aaron Womack, late Saturday afternoon, a decision had been made to extinguish Mrs. Franklin’s life-support system.
Moments later, Womack asked Johntell if he should call off that evening’s basketball game against DeKalb. “He said, No,” Womack assured reporters, “tell the guys to go out and do their best.”
That night the game began nearly two hours late due to Coach Womack remaining at the hospital. When the game finally started, Milwaukee Madison was short its best scorer. Early in the second quarter, Womack was surprised to see Johntell enter the gym.
“I wanted to go and support my team,” the young man later told reporters, “I’m a captain. I set an example. I’m a competitor. I can’t just sit there and watch,” he explained.
Once Johntell had been greeted, some might have said mobbed by his friends and classmates, Coach Womack told Johntell to suit up. When Franklin reported to the bench, cheers filled the small gymnasium. Across the floor, the players and coaches for DeKalb High School applauded enthusiastically.
But there was a problem. Coach Womack had given game officials only eight names for that night’s game. When Womack put Johntell Franklin in the game, the officials called a technical foul against Womack for failing to list Franklin on the official scorecard.
“I told the referees I knew there would be a technical,” Womack later explained. “I put Johntell in after DeKalb called a timeout and the next thing I heard was DeKalb’s coaches complaining that they didn’t want a technical.”
DeKalb coach Dave Rohlman said “We argued, but the referees said those were the rules, even if there were extenuating circumstances.” In all the confusion, the discussion over whether or not DeKalb would be awarded two free throws went on for nearly ten minutes. It was Coach Rohlman who came up with a solution.
“I gathered my kids and said, ‘Who wants to take these free throws?’ Darius McNeal put up his hand. I said, ‘You realize you’re going to miss, right?’ He nodded his head.”
At the other end of the floor, Womack gathered Madison’s players to watch McNeal shoot DeKalb’s two free throws. From the moment McNeal launched his first shot, Coach Womack watched the ball slowly roll across the floor all the way to the end line. The referees were unsure what to do.
“I turned around and saw the ref pick up the ball and hand it back to the player,” Womack said. While the startled Milwaukee Madison team watched, Darius McNeal launched the second shot two or three feet in front of him. It bounced a couple of times then rolled past the basket. The crowd was electrified.
“I did it for the guy who lost his mom,” McNeal said after the game. “It was the right thing to do. Any one of my teammates would have done the same thing,” McNeal explained, “and I think anyone on the Madison team would have done the same for us.”
There is a new day dawning in America. Who of us will be surprised that it will be enlightened by the values, energy and sportsmanship of responsible young people — and those who mentor and teach them what it means to be an American.