Reporter/columnist combo especially big in sports--Miami Herald exec

• Miami Herald Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal on reporter/columnists:

``There are things you can get across in a reported column that are different from a news story, which is basically a description,'' he said. ``The difference is

• particularly important in politics and sports,

• where there is a lot to say between the lines.''...

Perhaps the drift into reporters writing opinion

• is part of a larger trend in which technology will make the Herald's battle to remain interest-free irrelevant. By weakening the advertiser-supported business model for news, the Internet may be ushering in a return to the media being subsidized by political parties and others interested in imparting a point of view, as in the 19th century. But until that happens, the Herald and all news media need to think twice about what they are doing with your trust."

"Reporter-columnists tread fine line with readers' trust," by Edward Schumacher-Matos, 4/25/10, Miami Herald, via Poynter.org/Romenesko

• "Journalism today a haven for parasites and double dealers," Salon.com

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