Category: Journalism
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Mexico Paper, a Drug War Victim, Calls for a Voice – NYTimes.com
Mexico Paper, a Drug War Victim, Calls for a Voice After the killing of an El Diario intern, an editorial asked organized crime leaders to tell the paper what it should publish. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/world/americas/21mexico.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss “We want you to explain to us what you want from us,” the front-page editorial in El Diario in Ciudad Juárez…
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Some Newspapers Shift Coverage After Tracking Readers Online – NYTimes.com
Some Newspapers, Tracking Readers Online, Shift Coverage Because of technological advances, newspapers can make more scientific decisions about allocating their resources. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/business/media/06track.html?_r=1 Now, because of technology that can pinpoint what people online are viewing and commenting on, how much time they spend with an article and even how much money an article makes in…
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Second Newspaper Chain Joins Copyright Trolling Operation | Threat Level
Second Newspaper Chain Joins Copyright Trolling Operation A Las Vegas company established to sue bloggers who clip news content is expanding its operations to a second newspaper chain. Righthaven LLC has struck a deal with Arkansas-based WEHCO Media to expand its copyright litigation campaign, in which bloggers via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/copyright-troll-expanding/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Blog+-+27B+Stroke+6+%28Threat+Level%29%29 Righthaven LLC has struck a…
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The Face That Launched a Thousand Drones? – The Vigilante Journalist
The much talked about August 9 Time magazine cover, unabashed in its aim to shore up support for the war effort in Afghanistan, has left many still shaking their heads in disbelief at such brazen exploitation of a woman’s suffering. It’s not the first time the plight of Afghan women has been used to manipulate…
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Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott
It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there’s no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content. I figured it was time to fix that, so I made some stickers. I’ve been putting…
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Jailed in Iran for 1 Year and Counting – PDN Pulse
one-year anniversary of the arrest by freelance photographer and journalist Shane Bauer and his friends Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal by Iranian authorities
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In Mexico's Nuevo Laredo, drug cartels dictate media coverage
In Mexico’s Nuevo Laredo, drug cartels dictate media coverage Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/01/AR2010080103481.html?wprss=rss_world At least a dozen people were killed, including bystanders. Children were wounded in the crossfire. Not a single word about it appeared in the local news media.
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The Best Magazine Articles Ever
The Best Magazine Articles Ever via Cool Tools: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/the-best-magazi.php
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Behind ‘War Logs,’ a New Kind of Alliance – Media Decoder
Behind ‘War Logs,’ a New Kind of Alliance The War Logs represent a different kind of collaboration — between traditional organizations and WikiLeaks, a source that is itself a publisher. via Media Decoder Blog: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/behind-war-logs-a-new-kind-of-alliance/?partner=rss&emc=rss In one sense, the carefully choreographed exercise represented a new kind of hybrid journalism. WikiLeaks was more than just a…
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The Story Behind the Publication of WikiLeaks’s Afghanistan Logs : CJR
The Story Behind the Publication of WikiLeaks’s Afghanistan Logs From Brussels, to a bunker, to blockbusters via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/the_story_behind_the_publicati.php?page=all Although Assange has since spoken in a way that could suggest WikiLeaks was a journalistic collaborator in the effort, the traditional journalists don’t agree with that description. At a press conference on Monday, Assange…
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Times loses almost 90% of online readership | guardian.co.uk
Times loses almost 90% of online readership Less than three weeks after the Times paywall went up, data shows a massive decline in web traffic. By Josh Halliday via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/20/times-paywall-readership Less than three weeks after the Times paywall went up, data shows a massive decline in web traffic
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In Online Journalism, Burnout Starts Younger – NYTimes.com
In a World of Online News, Burnout Starts Younger At Politico, the news can start in the darkness before dawn. And turnover can be high. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/business/media/19press.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss Such is the state of the media business these days: frantic and fatigued. Young journalists who once dreamed of trotting the globe in pursuit of a story are…
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Time Moves to Limit Free Content Online – NYTimes.com
Time Moves to Limit Free Content Online In a move meant to drive readers to newsstands and its iPad applications, Time is replacing most of its content online with abridged articles and summaries. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/business/media/08time.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss In a speech to the House of Commons, the Home Secretary Theresa May has put an end to one of…
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'This American Life' Completes Documentation Of Liberal, Upper-Middle-Class Existence
On Sunday, writer and contributing editor Sarah Vowell called the project’s end “oddly anticlimactic,” but questioned whether work was actually complete because the show had not yet addressed the subject of “Things Ending.” “Seeing this project through to its culmination was equally satisfying and strange,” said Vowell, speaking at a book signing in Colonial Williamsburg…
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Regwall cuts The Times's online readership in half – Boing Boing
Regwall cuts The Times’s online readership in half Rupert Murdoch’s Times newspaper has instituted a registration wall as a preliminary step toward a full-blown paywall. Readership of the online edition immediately dropped by 50%. But, accord… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/24/regwall-cuts-the-tim.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 There is a paradox in Levinstein’s approach that is shared by legions of greater and…
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Boston Globe Tailors Print Edition For Three Remaining Subscribers
Boston Globe Tailors Print Edition For Three Remaining Subscribers
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The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains
Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains During the winter of 2007, a UCLA professor of psychiatry named Gary Small recruited six volunteers—three experienced Web surfers and three novices—for a study on brain activity. He gave each a pair of goggles onto which Web pages could be projected. Then via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/ff_nicholas_carr/all/1 Some…
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Poynter Online – Former Newspaper Photographer Becomes Mobile, Social Journalist
“Hi, I’m Jim. I’m from the Internet.” That was the moment Jim MacMillan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, veteran of 17 years at the Philadelphia Daily News and former embedded journalist of the war in Iraq, realized the game had changed. Link: Poynter Online – Mobile Media
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Pentagon tries to steer media coverage on Iraq
Pentagon tries to steer media coverage on Iraq Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/24/AR2010052403839.html?wprss=rss_world Before interviews with USF-I commanders or spokesmen, the contractor will have the task of talking with reporters (“pre-engagement with media outlets to determine the nature of the interview and the questions that will be asked by the media during the interview . . . to…
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Online Journalism Entrepreneurs – NYTimes.com
Putting a Price on Words When news is search-driven, audience-targeted and everywhere, what’s a story worth? Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/magazine/16Journalism-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all “Maybe this is what success looks like,” says Nick Denton, speaking of his own business, Gawker Media — a popular and profitable network of Web sites covering technology, sports and celebrity news — as well as of…