Category: Journalism

August 25, 2011

Sequel to Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘girl in the window’ story shows challenges of crafting a followup

Melissa Lyttle: It’s the one that was our lead photo the first time around, where [Bernie Lierow is] hugging her and she’s just kind of dangling, lifeless and limp, and not hugging back. And that scene happened again … I made this picture in the living room this time where he was hugging her. It’s very clear: She’s holding his head. She’s kind of playfully biting his nose and kissing him back. … It’s the same down to the fact of lensing and composition and moment.

July 30, 2011

This Is Why Your Newspaper Is Dying

Dead on critique of newspaper websites. Brilliant!

July 12, 2011

Dumenco: Huffington Post’s summary of popular Ad Age story drove just 57 page views

Techmeme’s “mimimalistic” aggregation approach — a headline and a snippet — brought 746 page views, according to Google Analytics. Huffington’s “short but thorough paraphrasing/rewriting” brought 57, Dumenco writes, although the site is “vastly bigger” than Techmeme

July 9, 2011

News Analysis: Scandals Redefine Rules for the Press in Europe

A widening phone-hacking scandal is prompting a broad reassessment of the balance between press freedom and privacy in Britain, even as France grapples with the consequences of its tradition of protecting the powerful.

July 1, 2011

White House press pool losing scoops to Twitter

Some reporters in the rotating pool of journalists who chronicle the president’s movements are sending tweets and TwitPics before the pool reports go to all of their colleagues, and that’s creating problems

June 15, 2011

O’Shea blasts ex-Tribune execs, current editor in new book

“Synergy was the Trojan horse with which FitzSimons and Kern attacked the values of journalists, cut costs and set their focus on local news because it was often cheaper to produce,” writes Mr. O’Shea.

Link: O’Shea blasts ex-Tribune execs, current editor in new book | Poynter.

May 2, 2011

Jake Whitney interviews Michael Hastings / Full Metal Racket

Jake Whitney interviews Michael Hastings:

what had been planned as a dissection of Hastings’s major articles evolved into a broader conversation about American exceptionalism, the process and duty of war reporting, the privatization of American war making, and the Pentagon’s intensifying effort to “tear down the wall”
between public affairs and propaganda

Link: Guernica / Full Metal Racket

April 15, 2011

What is a journalism school for?

Yesterday the final decision was made to close the School of Journalism and Mass Communication that is not only my part-time employer, but my alma mater. My father also taught photojournalism part time at this school and graduated from its predecessor College of Journalism at the University of Colorado. The old school will be replaced by a double degree in journalism and another discipline at the university, and details of how that will work remain vague.

Though I and many of my colleagues wish a purposeful change of how journalism is taught at CU would have unfolded differently from this, the decision begs an examination of what it means to have a journalism education. This may still be well served by CU’s plan, depending on how it unfolds. I am hopeful.

Link: What is a journalism school for? « Perfesser Kev

April 12, 2011

Of Paywalls, expectancy and stupidity

Some time ago, if you were lucky enough to have created an image that all wanted, you could easily sit on it and wait for your phone to ring. Not really anymore. The center of the business gravity has shifted. To those who create value around the content.

Link: Thoughts of a Bohemian » Blog Archive » Of Paywalls, expectancy and stupidity

April 12, 2011

Media Decoder: Huffington Post Is Target of Suit

“The Huffington bloggers have essentially been turned into modern-day slaves on Arianna Huffington’s plantation,” Mr. Tasini said in a conference call with reporters. He vowed to picket Ms. Huffington’s house and turn her into an outcast in the liberal circles where she made her blog so prominent.

Link: Huffington Post Is Target of Suit on Behalf of Bloggers – NYTimes.com