Indiana Daily Student , Fall1981
logsheet 12/25
A student project involving interviews with IDS staffers answering questions about the paper’s operation
Reporter & Producer, Cheryl Garner
Camerapersons: Steve Featherston, Steve Mount
Assistant Producer: Chip Drake
00:17 Fall Semester, 1981
A look at the Indiana Daily Student and interviews with the students who work there.
00:50 “What IDS staffers think it takes to become a good reporter.”
Genny Cummiskey, Student Affairs Editor -question what people say
01:22 Tim Franklin, IDS Editor in Chief -hard worker, dedicated
Carol Pellico, Intern Editor -have to be very aggressive
02:00 Nancy Watkins, Managing Editor -aggressive, good writer, organize and condense
02:54 Janine Davis, City Editor -covering both sides of issue
03:30 Andy Countryman, reporter - have to be skeptical
04:40 “How the IDS handles a controversial issue.”
This semester it has been the facilities at the IU Chemistry Building
Adam Allerhand, IU Chemistry Dept. Chairman
05:10 Tim Franklin, IDS Editor -# of issues into how we covered that story
The Chemistry building is dangerous
-on the decision of putting it on the front page
06:33 “The IDS and the “Richard” Hofstadter Incident"
-Douglas Hofstadter is an associate professor of computer science at IU
-author of Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
-mistakes in story: called Richard instead of Douglas, called him asst. prof, and his
comments were distorted so much that it contradicted what he believes
07:12 Tim Franklin, IDS Editor -reporter was negligent in duties, no excuses for it
-we blew it
07:41 Hofstadter wanted to see story before it ran but reporter said it was against IDS
policy
-reporter’s tape recorder wasn’t working
Hofstadter wrote an opinion piece on it, IDS changed policy of showing story to
sources
8:10 Tim Franklin, IDS Editor -system at the IDS where 3 people see article before it’s
published -in this case, mistakes got through
8:37 “How IDS personnel think the newspaper can be improved.”
-take more time in making big decisions
-improve credibility with the public, responsibility
-don’t take what high level administrators say at face value, investigate
-IDS is very clique-y, hard for new people to feel like they have a place here
10:56 end credits (listed at top)
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11:40 appears to be unedited footage of students working in the IDS newsroom
No audio
Using typewriters