Moderator Vicki Simons at right. The role of community journalists and the ethical dilemmas they face dominated panelists' discussion at the April 24 videoconference by Oswego State University's Center for Community Journalism. Panelist Bernard Stein, editor of the Riverdale Press and winner the week before of a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, sees in that role a serious responsibility.
Big media make people feel powerless.
That's what our kind of newspapering is all about. Simons noted that while readership of U.S. daily papers has remained flat or declined, community weeklies have grown stronger, attracting 20 million more readers than the daily metropolitan newspapers.