Category: Journalism
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Jon Stewart slams Time Magazine (and Pellegrin’s cover image)
Link: dvafoto The current issue, shown above, the American edition of the magazine has a cover about animal friendships, while the worldwide editions have a cover featuring Italian prime minister Mario Monti
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Man sues GateHouse paper over photo error and ‘meaningless and failed’ correction
Link: Poynter His lawyer, David H. Rich, told the site, “The MetroWest Daily News published an inadequate, ineffective, unreasonable, meaningless and failed ‘correction’ in small type buried at the bottom of page 2.”
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The Washington Post, Recast for a Digital Future
A Newspaper, and a Legacy, Reordered The Washington Post, shrinking its scope as it looks to a digital future, is undergoing one of the most sweeping reorientations of any newspaper in the country. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/business/media/the-washington-post-recast-for-a-digital-future.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all The outcome of their efforts could offer a high-profile case study on how a company can foster an entrepreneurial, digital…
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The Death of the Editor and the Rise of the Circulation Manager
The Death of the Editor and the Rise of the Circulation Manager A century-old critique of everything that’s wrong with media values today. via Brain Pickings: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/30/bliven/ so long as we have a monetization model of information that prioritizes the wrong stakeholders — advertisers over readers — we will always cater to the business interests…
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Star employees protest newsroom gutting
Star employees protest newsroom gutting After layoffs, furloughs, a 10 percent salary cut and a proposal to outsource page design and copy editing jobs to Kentucky, ‘Star’ workers say enough is enough. via NUVO: http://www.nuvo.net/indianapolis/star-employees-protest-newsroom-gutting/Content?oid=2385059 “Is it fair for the CEO to leave with $37 million while we take less and less and less?” Russell…
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Paton Prepares His Newspapers for a World Without Print
Newspapers’ Digital Apostle One of the biggest newspaper chains in America is run by John Paton, who thinks that print is, if not exactly dead, dying a lot faster than anyone thought. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/business/media/paton-prepares-his-newspapers-for-a-world-without-print.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all he worked his way through a detailed presentation about outsourcing most operations other than sales and editorial, focusing on the cost…
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CNN Lays Off 50 Staffers, Citing ‘Workflow Changes,’ Reliance On User-Gen
paidContent CNN is cutting dozens of editorial jobs following a three-year review of its “workflow” operations, TV Newser reported. According to a memo obtained by paidContent and attributed to CNN SVP Jack Womack, technology and user-gen has made the network a little less reliant on editorial staffers, particularly photojournalists.
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Romenesko Taken to Woodshed for, um, Not Much. And Then Resigns
Romenesko’s Posts Now Toast Poynter took Jim Romenesko to task for inadequate attribution after exactly zero complaints. In the process, it hastened the resignation of someone who changed the way journalism is covered. via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/romeneskos-posts-now-toast/?partner=rss&emc=rss Yesterday, he was publicly taken to the woodshed in the blog he created for, well, I’m not…
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The Newspaper That Almost Seized the Future
The Newspaper That Almost Seized the Future The San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s own daily, was poised to ride the digital whirlwind. What happened? via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/feature/the_newspaper_that_almost_seized_the_future.php?page=all The San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley’s own daily, was poised to ride the digital whirlwind. What happened?
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UK Labour Party wants journalism licenses, will prohibit “journalism” by people who are “struck off” the register of licensed journalists
UK Labour Party wants journalism licenses, will prohibit “journalism” by people who are “struck off” the register of licensed journalists The UK Labour party’s conference is underway in Liverpool, and party bigwigs are presenting their proposals for reinvigorating Labour after its crushing defeat in the last election. The stupi… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/09/27/uk-labour-party-wants-journalism-licenses-will-prohibit-journalism-by-people-who-are-struck-off-the-register-of-licensed-journalists.html Given that…
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Rules of the game change as sports journalists compete against teams they cover
poynter: Because now anybody can publish, and anybody turns out to really mean “anybody.” That includes teams, leagues, athletic organizations, agents and athletes themselves – all those who used to speak through sportswriters. As a result, the rules of the game are swiftly being rewritten
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Failing U.S. Economy No Reason At All To Stop Investing In Print Media, All Experts Agree
Breaking News: The nation’s top experts unanimously agreed Tuesday that the current struggles of the U.S. economy were no reason whatsoever to stop investing in print media, which they said was easily the safest and most profitable place to invest one’s money.
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Sequel to Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘girl in the window’ story shows challenges of crafting a followup
Poynter: 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.…
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This Is Why Your Newspaper Is Dying
This Is Why Your Newspaper Is Dying Brad Colbow takes a look at why your newspaper is dying on his webcomic The Brads. via Slacktory via Laughing Squid: http://laughingsquid.com/this-is-why-your-newspaper-is-dying/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+laughingsquid The reason why we want to expose every shot that we take with the data as far to the right of the histogram as possible is…
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News Analysis: Scandals Redefine Rules for the Press in Europe
Scandals Redefine Rules for the Press in Europe While Britain reassesses the balance between press freedom and privacy, France is grappling with the consequences of its tradition of protecting the powerful. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/world/europe/10press.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss A widening phone-hacking scandal is prompting a broad reassessment of the balance between press freedom and privacy in Britain, even as France…
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White House press pool losing scoops to Twitter
::: The Travel Photographer ::: travel photographer Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/ 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
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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.
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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 /…
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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…