To illustrate or not…

The meeting started today with a viewing of the audio slide show companion to today’s story by Tom Bowers
Downtown Spokane’s rebirth: the East End .
Steve Smith mentioned that for the third week in a row the cover of 7 had the feeling they have been working toward and gave kudos to Jennifer Rochette for both that and the cover of 360.

There was a mention of Sara Leaming and Jody Lawrence-Turner’s follow on the Kim double homicide . There was a general consensus around the table that it was a nice treatment of the story.
Ralph Walter was praised for his treatment of the Bing Crosby cover on the Today section (a photo illustration) but its use started a conversation about the newspaper’s photo manipulation policy and what the readers understand to be a news photo and a not news photo. Dan Hansen said that he doesn’t think the readers really make a distinction and Larry Reisnouer said that he was comfortable with illustrations on pages that aren’t in the news sections. There was talk about clarifying the newspaper’s stand on photo manipulation on pages other than news pages.

Looking ahead:
Sam’s Club and Wal-Mart get ready to rumble and grass burning review meetings are going on in Idaho.
Be well.
Joe