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.