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FOX Fort Wayne News just broadcast the only scientific poll of the GOP Precinct Committe Members in advance of their caucus on Saturday to select the 3rd District Congressional Candidate. It was a major undertaking but well worth the effort.
There’s a big difference between a scientific poll and the kind you see on most media outlets. A [...]

Here’s a brief article I wrote for our corporate newsletter concerning our election software. It might interest computer geeks (like me).
A little more than a year after its first newscast, WFFT, Fort Wayne put together its first election coverage for the Indiana May 4th primary. We accomplished it without dedicated election software.
 News Director Jim Blue [...]

I’ve noticed some writing habits among reporters in Fort Wayne. To be fair, reporters in every market get into ruts. But sometimes it takes a person with a fresh ear to spot them.
One of our competitors frequently is “digging deeper” on stories. I thought I was the first one to use that phrase here. Once [...]

FOX Fort Wayne got a central fact wrong in last night’s story about high infant mortality rates among Black babies in Allen County.
In their news release, HealthVisions of Fort Wayne inaccurately reported the Black Infant Mortality rate in Allen County as “over 30 percent.” That is incorrect. The correct figure is 31 per one thousand [...]