About Our Journalism.(Knight Ridder)(Brief Article)

American Journalism Review,  December, 2001  

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When terrorism took down the World Trade Center early on a Tuesday in September, 28 Knight Ridder newsrooms had extra editions on the street within hours. For the following week, these same newsrooms -- like so many of their counterparts across the country -- worked with greatly diminished advertising support yet without regard to cost to produce the greatly expanded A-sections and special reports that would begin to track this vast, complex and elusive story.

In doing so, our newsrooms adhered to a tradition ingrained in Knight Ridder: Cover the news, whatever it takes. It is the ...

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