How WITF covers presidential candidate appearances

As  part of our commitment to transparency in our journalism, Scott Blanchard, WITF’s director of journalism, joins me each week to take you behind the scenes on our editorial decisions, discussions or approaches. In this week’s email newsletter The Purple Buck,  Scott wrote about how we’re approa…

The theater comes to radio

In this week’s email newsletter The Purple Buck, WITF's Director of Journalism wrote about something coming up on our air that is, let’s say, very unusual for us.  Scott blanchard is here to talk about it now -- as part of our wekly chat about our editorial decisions, discussions or approaches He…

How WITF decides to use partner content

WITF Director of Journalism Scott Blanchard explains how the newsroom applies our standards when deciding to publish partner content. 

How WITF tries to cut through the national issues to find the local issues that matter.

As part of our election coverage, our reporters are asking voters what issues matter to them. But, the responses often mimic national political party talking points. So does that affect our coverage? Every Thursday, as part of our commitment to transparency in our journalism, Scott Blanchard, WIT…

Having tough conversations to help democracy work

Each week, as part of our commitment to transparency in our journalism, Scott Blanchard, WITF’s director of journalism, takes us behind the scenes to pull back the curtain on editorial decisions, discussions or approaches Scott’s here with me in the studio. Good morning.  Now, Scott, in this week…

How WITF works to get our work to our audience

You know that our newsroom is working hard to report fact-based stories you can trust.  And the more people see our work online, the more they have good information to counter the bad information that we all come across.   So, one of our jobs is to do what we can to make sure those stories show u…

How WITF covers breaking news

The attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump in Western Pennsylvania on Saturday shocked the nation. The stunning scenes also mobilized newsrooms to cover an uprecedented event -- someone tried to kill a former president at time when social media platforms are doing less and less t…

How WITF will cover stories from News & Brews

Each week, as part of our commitment to transparency in our journalism, Scott Blanchard, WITF’s director of journalism, takes us behind the scenes to pull back the curtain on editorial decisions, discussions or approaches n this week’s email newsletter The Purple Buck, you wrote about our News & B…

A roundtable discussion with NPR's public editor

Each week, as part of our commitment to transparency in our journalism, Scott Blanchard, WITF’s director of journalism, takes us behind the scenes to pull back the curtain on editorial decisions, discussions or approaches. He talks with our Tim Lambert about he recently held a roundtable discussio…

A newsroom discussion you might not expect

Scott Blanchard, WITF’s Director of Journalism, and Tim Lambert, Special Projects Editor, have a newsroom discussion you might not expect.