Mediagazer: USA Today encourages journalists to pepper reporting with personality (Editors Weblog)

10:00 AM ET, April 24, 2013

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Editors Weblog:

USA Today encourages journalists to pepper reporting with personality — Forget journalistic objectivity, USA Today told its editorial team. The newspaper is asking reporters to pepper their writing with personality and offer unique perspectives to news, Publisher Larry Kramer said.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

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Jim Romenesko:

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