Chandler Receives Press Award, Urges Reporters to Be Sensitive
Otis Chandler, chairman of the board and editor-in-chief, Times Mirror, received the Isaiah Thomas Award in newspaper management Tuesday from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
In his acceptance speech, Chandler urged reporters to be sensitive about how they gather news because the public is watching them work.
“In order to get information--information to which the public is entitled--reporters sometimes behave in ways that can appear to be callous and insensitive, sometimes even brutal.” But, he added, “The same can be said of policemen, of soldiers, even of hospital workers.”
The Isaiah Thomas Award, given annually by the School of Printing at Rochester Institute of Technology, is named after a patriot publisher who worked during the American Revolution.
Past recipients include Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, chairman and publisher of the New York Times; Katharine Graham, chairman and chief executive officer of the Washington Post Co., and Allen H. Neuharth, chairman of Gannett Co. Inc.
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