The Buttry Diary
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The Buttry Diary
4y ago
We’re really looking forward to having you all in Minnesota this weekend for Steve’s memorial service. Below are details for the weekend. Please e-mail Mike at mwesleybuttry@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Friday
There has been a CHANGE in Friday evening’s plans. We ended up having too many people for bowling at Pinstripes (a good problem to have), so anyone who wants to get together on Friday evening can connect at Fuddruckers in Bloomington, MN. We have part of a back room/patio from 5-8 pm.
http://www.fuddruckers.com/bloomington
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The Buttry Diary
4y ago
The LSU Manship School of Mass Communication will also be holding a memorial service in honor of Steve at 4:30 Monday, April 3 at the Holliday Forum in the LSU Journalism Building. Further details are in the link below.
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The Buttry Diary
4y ago
We’d like to thank everyone again for the continuing love and support we’ve received since Steve’s passing. This post is to remind and provide some more details for Steve’s memorial service, which will take place at 4pm, Saturday April 8, at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Minneapolis, MN. Directions to the venue are also on the website.
For guests arriving on Friday the 7th, we welcome you to join us at Pinstripes in Edina, MN from 5pm-7pm for bowling and other fun.
If you plan to attend either event and haven’t already been in contact with one of us, please let Mike Buttry kno ..read more
The Buttry Diary
4y ago
The public memorial for Steve Buttry will take place on 4:00pm, Saturday, April 8th at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Minneapolis, MN. This will be a celebration of Steve’s life and we welcome everyone who wishes to attend. We are working to set up a block of rooms at the Embassy Suites hotel adjacent to the venue, which should be available to book starting on Monday, February 27. In lieu of flowers, please contribute any memorials to the Steve Buttry Scholarship Fund at the Manship School of Mass Communications at LSU.
We would like to thank everyone for the outpouring o ..read more
The Buttry Diary
4y ago
Steve Buttry
Steve Buttry, a journalist for more than 45 years, died February 19 at age 62 of pancreatic cancer, his third major cancer.
A memorial service will be held in coming weeks in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Details are pending and will be posted to this blog and other social media platforms. The family requests that memorial tributes are directed to a scholarship fund created in Buttry’s honor at the LSU Manship School of Journalism.
Buttry spent most of his career as a reporter and editor, but achieved prominence late in his career as a newsroom traine ..read more
The Buttry Diary
4y ago
I will be teaching a class today on updating ethical guidance for journalists. We’ll be discussing these ethics codes:
Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics
Poynter’s Guiding Principles for the Journalist
Radio, Television Digital News Association Code of Ethics
Online News Association’s Build Your Own Ethics Code project
In addition, we’ll discuss these ethics projects:
Rules of the Road
Telling the Truth and Nothing But
Verification Handbook
Here are some blog posts I’ve written about the codes and other projects that make some of the points I will cover in class:
New SPJ Code o ..read more
The Buttry Diary
4y ago
My Current story about journalism ethics in private behavior prompted a podcast on the topic by one of my former American University students. Here’s my “It’s All Journalism” podcast with Michael O’Connell:
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The Buttry Diary
4y ago
I’ve received some welcome attention from media lately, mostly because of my holiday letter, which acknowledged my terminal cancer.
Daniel Finney, a longtime friend who’s a Des Moines Register columnist, wrote his Christmas Day column about Mimi and me, after interviewing us both.
Another old friend, Paul Stevens, noted the Finney piece in his Connecting newsletter, which prompted some praise in a subsequent edition of Connecting from John Lumpkin, yet another old friend.
Next came an interview Tuesday evening with Jim Engster on the Louisiana Radio Network.
Also Tuesday, Current published a s ..read more
The Buttry Diary
4y ago
2016 has been an outstanding year for Mimi and me.
We’ve had our disappointments, and they may be our biggest news of the year. We’ll get to them in due time.
But we regard this as an outstanding year for a whole lot of reasons. (We’re talking about the personal level here, setting aside the train wreck that was the 2016 election.) And we’re not going to let those disappointments get in the way of celebrating 2016 as it draws to a close. Some great things that happened this year:
Madeline and Julia enjoyed an Easter egg hunt in our home.
Our granddaughters, Julia and Madeline, visited us alo ..read more
The Buttry Diary
4y ago
Twenty-five years ago, I crowdsourced the Minot Daily News’ coverage of the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
I didn’t call it crowdsourcing. That word was not in the journalism vocabulary back then. Neither was “community engagement.” But I knew that the community had good stories to tell, so I invited readers to tell their stories.
Most wrote with memories of where they were when they heard the tragic and historic news of the Japanese attack on U.S. naval forces in Hawaii. A few wrote of being in the military at the time and scrambling to full alert, in case other mil ..read more