OLD Media Moves

Platsky, transportation and economics reporter for NY state paper, retires

Jeff Platsky

Jeff Platsky, who covers transportation and the economy for the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin in New York, is retiring.

He writes, “Practicing journalism doesn’t mean being a cheerleader. Journalism, as practiced by pros, means holding the powerful to account. A reporter is, by nature, a skeptic. The adage in the trade: ‘If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out.’

“Let’s be straight. Journalism and a free press, despite claims of its current detractors, have one main purpose: safeguard a fragile democracy.  We, who practice serious investigative journalism take the chore seriously and, I can assure you, without bias.

“Through the years reporting roadblocks have been immense: uncooperative sources; unexplained delays to Freedom of Information requests; sidestepping penetrating questions; and now, most distressing, attacks on press credibility. In the face of obstacles, we march on.”

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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