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BUSINESS/FINANCIAL DESK | May 9, 2005, Monday
Panel at The Times Proposes Steps to Increase Credibility
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE (NYT) 1479 words Late Edition - Final , Section C , Page 6 , Column 1
ABSTRACT - New York Times internal committee recommends variety of steps to build readers' confidence, including having senior editors write more regularly about workings of paper, tracking errors in systematic way and responding more assertively to paper's critics; recommends paper increase coverage of religion in America and cover nation in fuller way, with more reporting from rural areas and of broader array of cultural and lifestyle issues; calls for limiting anonymous sources, reducing factual errors and making clearer distinction between news and opinion; executive editor Bill Keller, who sought study, hails report; holds reforms alone will not reverse decline of public trust in news organizations; table of recommendations (M)
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