These are video clips from two newsroom conversations about the RPS report. The first was at the morning meeting:

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The second was at a lunch meeting open to the entire newsroom:

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Editor Steven A. Smith responds to the recommendations in the River Park Square audit and former Spokesman-Review editor Chris Peck weighs in:

• Text: Editor responds to report's recommendations


• Text: Former editor Chris Peck challenges report

The Washington News Council has published its final report in the independent analysis of The Spokesman-Review's coverage of the River Park Square development project. You can download the full document here, as well as read excerpts and a response from Editor Steve Smith.

• Final report: Download the PDF (178kb)


• Introduction of the final report


• Recommendations from the final report


• Response from Editor Steven A. Smith


• Response from Publisher W. Stacey Cowles


• Responses from Editor Steve Smith, former Editor Chris Peck


• News is a Conversation: Comment on the 2007 report


• Video: Watch newsroom conversations on the report


• 2004 report: The decisions and costs of River Park Square


• Ongoing coverage: Previous stories

As many of you know, The Spokesman-Review commissioned an independent audit of the newspaper's River Park Square coverage.

The audit was conducted by the Washington News Council, an independent, non-profit body that monitors media ethics in the state.

The audit has been completed and will be published in Sunday's paper (May 6) along with a response by me. It also will be available online at spokesmanreview.com and wanewscouncil.org.

Our web posting will have the "comments" feature enabled so that readers can respond to the report.

I'm sure we'll be writing about it next week.

steve