Posted 12:04 PM 3/12/2011 by Sarah Hill and Robert Kessler

In the beginning of October, KOMU brought you the story about a lawsuit against True North formerly known as the shelter.

Staff members accused True North's former director of touching them inappropriately.

During the coverage of that story, KOMU did not name the accusers and you (More)

Posted 11:48 AM 3/12/2011 by Sarah Hill and Robert Kessler

In an effort to make a story relatable, we made an important fact error on this story. On September Fourth we covered the story of Kelsi Poe, the 19-year-old who fell from a staircase inside Quinton's bar and grill in downtown Columbia. In the story, we said poe had a blood alcohol level four (More)

Posted 11:35 AM 3/12/2011 by Sarah Hill and Robert Kessler

Every friday night, high school football begins in the locker room. Just like those teams, KOMU 8's very own team begins its pep talk. After our sportos assign positions and equiptment is ready, the team can line up to run out to prepare for the big game.

"High school football is a huge (More)

Posted 11:32 AM 3/12/2011 by Sarah Hill and Robert Kessler

Just because a family points to a person they believe is responsible for an alleged crime doesn't mean the media can report it. After the sexual assault of a 3 year old girl in Jefferson City, the girl's family started putting up fliers trying to find the man they believed was responsible.

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Posted 11:15 AM 3/12/2011 by Sarah Hill and Robert Kessler

Earlier this week, KOMU aired a story about a California woman who came to mid-Missouri to question the exoneration of Columbia Police Officers. The story followed a controversial SWAT team raid looking for drugs in a Columbia home. In this week's Your View, KOMU 8's Sarah Hill introduces us to (More)

Posted 11:02 AM 3/12/2011 by Sarah Hill and Robert Kessler

"We're responsible for the safety of all of our viewers in all of our twenty-eight Missouri counties so we have to respond to a tornado warning."

Routinely, we get comments about why KOMU interrupts programming for severe weather alerts. Last Sunday afternoon....KOMU broke in to a golf (More)

Posted 10:59 AM 3/12/2011 by Sarah Hill and Robert Kessler

We extensively covered President Barack Obama's visit to Macon. But the night before that visit we covered a tea party demonstration.

One viewer heard and saw our coverage and was not pleased.

"Why is KOMU's coverage of the upcoming Obama visit to Macon focused solely on the (More)

Posted 10:53 AM 3/12/2011 by Sarah Hill and Robert Kessler

Some media experts believe a journalist's professional identity takes priority over personal identity.

"There are certain things, frankly, you give up as a journalist," Public Editor of the New York Times Clark Hoyt said. "You have to recognize, for example, that if you're tweeting or on (More)

Posted 10:40 AM 3/12/2011 by Sarah Hill and Robert Kessler

Our storytelling process involves a lot of research and when topics we cover are unfamiliar, mistakes are a possibility. As journalists, we often report on topics outside our personal expertise and no matter how detailed the fact checking, we don't always get the terminology right. A viewer named (More)

Posted 10:36 AM 3/12/2011 by Sarah Hill and Robert Kessler

As journalists, we are dedicated to bringing you truthful, objective, and thorough news stories, but one viewer claims earlier this month, we fell short of those goals.

"It seems to me that they once sourced the whole thing, both of these," Boonville resident Frank Thatcher said. "They (More)