Miami Herald reviews its coverage of Radio/TV Martí payments to journalists.

Internal review by veteran editor Clark Hoyt criticizes the Miami Herald's story about south Florida journalists who took payment from Radio/TV Martí. "The Herald might have broadened the perspective of the story to report, as El Nuevo Herald and then the Herald later did, that journalists in Washington have taken money from other U.S. government broadcasting outlets, such as the Voice of America. I believe that a journalist cannot take pay from the government or a corporation or interest group he or she covers without suffering a loss of credibility. But the presentation and handling of the Herald's story, in the end, was so heavy-handed and one-sided that it amounted to a missed opportunity to explore the issue with the sensitivity it demanded." Editor & Publisher, 17 November 2006. Herald executive editor Tom Fiedler says, "It was a story about how U.S. tax dollars are used to carry out policy and is this appropriate that U.S. tax dollars are going to arms of the government spent on journalists who would be representing independent news media." Editor & Publisher, 17 November 2006. Hoyt report in Miami Herald, 19 November 2006. Posted: 19 Nov 2006 Permalink Print