Train beat reporters about their issues by organizing field trips and developing contacts with experts. The experts will not include anyone quoted or used as sources in the stories. Develop accuracy questionnaires and send them to the specific individuals and sources mentioned in news articles. Compare the reactions of outside experts to those of sources. Responses will be tabulated internally.
Conduct focus groups with community leaders and residents about the profiles.
Publish a daily A-2 column explaining that day's news decisions and judgments to readers. Replace its zoned section in southern New Jersey with a five-day South Jersey section to provide more extensive coverage of that community. Enlist southern New Jersey residents to critique the new section. Encourage reporters and editors to go out and meet community leaders. The discussion will focus on at least 16 specific stories.