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 approaching covering presidential candidate appearances in central Pa. … and mentioned a term that you might have heard of in relation to election news coverage, and that’s “sane-washing.”  Scott talks with WITF's Tim Lambert about the approach.

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's here with me in the studio. Good morning.  So, what is so unusual about this upcoming program? 

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

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, WITF’s director of journalism, takes us behind the scenes to pull back the curtain on editorial decisions, discussions or approaches

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’s email newsletter The Purple Buck, you wrote about a conversation you had with a professor at Colorado State University about ‘deliberative democracy’ – a way of community problem-solving that we’re working with in central Pennsylvania. 

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 up when you go looking for news.  As part of our commitment to transparency in our journalism, WITF’s Director of Journalism Scott Blanchard is going to pull back the curtain on some things we do to try to make sure our work reaches you.

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 to stop the spread of false information. So let's talk about how journalists approached the incident --  as part of our weekly chat with WITF's Director of Journalism Scott Blanchard. This is where we pull  back the curtain on editorial decisions, discussions or approaches. It's part of our commitment to transparency in our journalism. Scott joins me now in the studio.

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 & Brews event at The Englewood in Hershey last week. 

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 discussion with some listeners and NPR’s public editor Kelly McBride. It was the topic of his weekly email newsletter, The Purple Buck.

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

Scott Blanchard, WITF’s Director of Journalism, and Tim Lambert, WITF's Special Projects Editor, discuss WITF's plan to cover the upcoming election and some frequently asked questions. 

Scott Blanchard, WITF's Director of Journalism, talks about viewpoint diversity, which for us includes elevating voices of people regardless of their politics.

Uri Berliner is an NPR business editor who wrote an opinion column recently in which he criticized the organization for having a progressive worldview that often ignores other voices and that damages NPR's credibility. Berliner has since resigned since this was published. Scott Blanchard, WITF's Director of Journalism, wrote in our weekly email newsletter, The Purple Buck, about how Berliner's views may reflect on WITF and the challenges of doing credible journalism.