Daniel de Vise
E-mails show U-Va. board leaders planning Teresa Sullivan’s exit
Posted at 11:40 PM ET, 06/19/2012 TheWashingtonPost On Tuesday, the University of Virginia released a series of e-mail exchanges between the leaders of the Board of Visitors, Rector Helen E. Dragas and Vice Rector Mark Kington, in May and June. Charlottesville, VA-June 18: A large crowd ... Read more »
Dr. Scott D. Miller: Containing Higher Education Costs at All Costs
Some institutions "are working the four-year theme into recruiting events as a selling point to the cost-conscious," r eports the article's author, Daniel de Vise. So where are we headed? The good news for private colleges, according to President Weiss and the Lafayette Group conference... Read more »
Provost: Are honor, integrity and trust truly foundational pillars at UVa?
As Anita Kumar and Daniel de Vise write in the Washington Pos t late Sunday, numbers of donors have contacted Robert Sweeney, senior vice president of development at the University, who is concerned about the backlash from this week’s events, noting that some donors have now rescinded ... Read more »
The Washington Post and Journalism 101
After reading the entire Post piece, by reporters Daniel de Vise and Anita Kumar, there are certain things I don’t know. Who is Teresa Sullivan and how did she get to UVA? What was she asked to do? Did she fail or succeed in doing that? Why are the students and faculty angry? Are all the ... Read more »
The New York Times bans quote approval
” Washington Post education reporter Daniel de Vise, now on book leave, got in trouble for sharing a story of his with University of Texas sources. Despite our reporters’ best efforts, we fear that demands for after-the-fact “quote approval” by sources and their press aides have gone too ... Read more »
NYT reporter was supposed to help fact-check a column, not send it to CIA
Baquet told Peters, “We don’t like the practice” and said, “We encourage our reporters to push back.” Not long after Peters’ piece, Washington Post reporter Daniel de Vise landed in hot water for sharing a draft with source. The Post issued guidelines strongly discouraging the practice. ... Read more »
At Washington Post, some draft-sharing will continue
by Andrew Beaujon Published Aug. 2, 2012 9:10 am Updated Aug. 2, 2012 10:21 am After Washington Post reporter Daniel de Vise drew national attention for sharing drafts of a story with a source, the newspaper tightened its policy on the practice. “Some reporters share sections of stories ... Read more »
UT official who reviewed Post story didn’t allow that when she was a reporter
) Doolittle said Post reporter Daniel de Vise told UT media representatives that sharing his story drafts was part of his normal process, and his editors knew about it. The Post has since tightened its policy on allowing sources to review stories, saying editors will grant permission to ... Read more »
Washington Post reporter sent drafts to sources
by Andrew Beaujon Published July 25, 2012 8:51 am Updated July 25, 2012 10:46 am Washington Post higher education reporter Daniel de Vise “employed some unusual, perhaps even unethical, techniques” while preparing a piece about the Collegiate Learning Assessment, writes the Texas ... Read more »
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A Matter of Scale Horn Matters French Horn and Brass Site Resource
overrated.” The article was part of the College Inc. series in the Washington Post, and author Daniel de Vise looks at the topic of student..... Read more »
VN MADE » In the media: Faculty inform the press
Washington Post contributor Daniel de Vise talked with William Mary Provost Michael Halleran for a June 4 article about a nation-wide trend in aloft preparation to boost on-time graduation rates. Amid discussions of rising fee costs, de Vise wrote, a concentration on four-year ... Read more »
The Three-Year Engagement: 25 Percent Off College Term -
As Daniel de Vise, an education reporter for The Washington Post, has noted, Harvard adopted the model in 1652 simply because that’s what the Brits were doing at the time. Everyone else followed suit. England later switched to a three-year degree, but America plodded on. We’re still ... Read more »
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Jul 27, 2012
Sharing stories with sources before publication is risky, but can improve accuracy
So I have some empathy for Washington Post reporter Daniel de Vise, who is being taken to task for his fact-checking technique. Getting our facts straight should be a top priority of every journalist. We get them wrong more often than we know (I usually have not corrected the journalists ... Read more »
Washington Post editors back writer who made changes to story at subjects’ request
The issue arose anew July 25 after a news outlet reported that a Washington Post reporter, education writer Daniel de Vise, showed two drafts of an article, about a controversial college test, to the subjects of the story. The sources then sought changes, which were made before the ... Read more »
Reporter in hot water after sharing story draft with UT sources
The Texas Observer reported Tuesday that Post reporter Daniel de Vise allowed UT media officials to review his story and suggest critical edits — some of which he adopted — before its publication. Although some journalists called de Vise’s actions unethical when news of his actions hit ... Read more »
Post Memo Changes Policy on Draft Sharing, Quote Approval
In the aftermath of a Texas Observer story about how Post education reporter Daniel de Vise shared story drafts with college officials, as well as the New York Times' story about the Post and other publications allowing campaign operatives to edit their quotes before publication... Read more »
Washington Post Reporter Allows College Officials to Alter Story on Controversial Test
In February, Daniel de Vise, a reporter for the Washington Post, arrived at the University of Texas at Austin campus to work on a story about a controversial standardized test sweeping the nation’s colleges and universities. The test purports to determine how much students have learned ... Read more »
UVA official who pushed President Teresa Sullivan’s ouster now out himself
University of Virginia Rector Helen E. Dragas is followed out of the Rotunda by a waiting crowd and media, Tuesday, June 19, 2012, after the Board of Visitors met for hours to decide on an interim president in Charlottesville, Va. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The University of Virginia remained in ... Read more »
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Jun 01, 2012
New momentum for the three-year degree?
Last week brought two significant events in the annals of the three-year bachelor’s degree. First, the president of Wesleyan University in Connecticut announced a new initiative to encourage the three-year degree on his campus. Read more »
