Category: Journalism
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Star Tribune Staff Ad Honors Those Lost in Cuts – NYTimes.com
A Newsroom’s Salute to Its Departed The newsroom shrank to about 250 people from about 400 within a few years, and employees who remained have absorbed pay and benefit cuts. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/business/media/15strib.html?partner=rss&emc=rss a most unusual ad appeared last week in The Star Tribune of Minneapolis with a less upbeat message, honoring — and naming —…
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Domains – Christiane Amanpour – War Rooms
War Rooms CNN’s chief international correspondent, best known for her coverage of conflicts in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, lives in a “big and comfortable” rental apartment overlooking Central Park. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14fob-domains-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss 1. Most Amiable Dictator: Slobodan Milosevic. He would slap you on the back, offer you a drink. He tried to be charming.…
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Iceland's paper of record bans linking
Iceland’s paper of record bans linking Morgunblaðið, Iceland’s oldest newspaper and most-visited website (now co-edited by the former prime minister and head of the central bank) has just announced an anti “deep linking̶… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/08/icelands-paper-of-re.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29
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Why Not Images of Haiti — By Haitians? – The Digital Journalist
What was missing from this reportage—both still and moving—was the opportunity for Haitians to tell their own stories. One blogger stated on Internet site Newspaper Death Watch, “When Diane Sawyer arrived on the scene she got to practice her O-Level French but, apart from that, there was nothing she said that could not have been…
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PDNPulse: The Problem with Pooling Haiti Coverage
He suggests that if news outlets saved some expense on one story, they would be able to cover news in more regions. That’s a little hard to believe; editors and TV producers know what sells, and they weren’t preparing to dispatch journalists to unreported stories around the globe when the Haiti earthquake happened. Link: PDNPulse:…
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After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site
Media Industry | Media Analysis | Observer Get the latest trends and analysis of the media industry from Observer. via Observer: http://www.observer.com/2010/media/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site “We’re the freebie newsletter that comes with your HBO,” sniffed one Newsday reporter. Mr. Jimenez was in no mood to apologize. “That’s 35 more than I would have thought it would have been,”…
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The Iranian Exile’s Eye – NYTimes.com
The Iranian Exile’s Eye A reporter, driven out of Iran, returns via the Internet and finds herself freer to write about the meaning of events back in her homeland. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/weekinreview/17fathi.html?ref=weekinreview I am an Iranian, a journalist now living in exile like hundreds, perhaps thousands, of others. We were driven out after the June elections…
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Study Finds Newspapers Lead in Providing New Information – NYTimes.com
Study Finds That Papers Lead in Providing New Information A new study found that 95 percent of articles containing new information came from old media, which “set the narrative agenda for most other media outlets.” Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/business/media/11baltimore.html?partner=rss&emc=rss the great majority of actual reporting still comes from newspapers
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SOUTH AFRICA’S GRIMMEST DAILY RAG « Viceland Today
The South African Daily Voice is what all newspapers will look like after the apocalypse. It’s like Heat for the age of Mad Max; The Grapes of Wrath in handy Daily Star format. It’s leading the way with a new model of what a tabloid can be. Link: SOUTH AFRICA’S GRIMMEST DAILY RAG « Viceland…
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Cut This Story! – The Atlantic (January/February 2010)
Cut This Story! Newspaper articles are too long. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001/short-writing ONE REASON SEEKERS of news are abandoning print newspapers for the Internet has nothing directly to do with technology. It’s that newspaper articles are too long. On the Internet, news articles get to the point. Newspaper writing, by contrast, is encrusted with conventions…
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Dave Eggers on his favorite things about newspapers | The A.V. Club
In a way, this completes a full circle for McSweeney’s founder and editor Dave Eggers, who, in his 2000 book A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius, recalled doing freelance design for the San Francisco Chronicle to pay rent. While journalism struggles to redefine itself on the Internet, Eggers maintains that “print is a more calm,…
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Iran sentences reporter Zeidabadi – washingtonpost.com
Iran sentences reporter Zeidabadi Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/03/AR2010010301960.html?wprss=rss_world
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Washington Times Slashes Newsroom Staff, Wipes Out Photo Department
When owners of The Washington Times cut their 170-member newsroom staff yesterday, the entire photography department – with the exception of photography director Joseph M. Eddins Jr. and imaging tech Melissa Cannarozzi – lost their jobs. Link: Washington Times Slashes Newsroom Staff, Wipes Out Photo Department
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Articles of Faith – The Existential Crisis of Magazines Online
Articles of Faith The existential crisis of magazines online. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/magazine/03FOB-medium-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss But what is a magazine? If you’re holding one, you can turn the page. But it’s very possible that you’re nowhere near a turnable page now. You’re reading on a computer or a hand-held device, even though this column was intended for a magazine…
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"The Internet may kill newspapers; And that might not matter"
“The Internet may kill newspapers; And that might not matter” Can a world without newspapers survive? Sure, says The Economist. What matters is the availability and quality of the news, not the medium that delivers it. via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/29/the-internet-may-kil.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29
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dispatches / A Conversation between Photography and Policy: Part 3
To what degree does the mainstream media show victimisation of certain subjects over and over again? Noelle LuSane, the Staff Director of the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, discusses the impact that stills and video footage from around the world have on lawmakers and the constituents who call them to action. Link: dispatches…
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The Year in Media Errors and Corrections | Regret the Error
Regret the Error Archives – Poynter Craig Silverman reports on trends and issues regarding media accuracy and the discipline of verification.Stories about errors, corrections, fact checking and verification via Poynter: http://www.regrettheerror.com/2009/12/16/crunks-2009-the-year-in-media-errors-and-corrections/ This year’s winner is without question amusing — not to mention embarrassing for the news organization the published it — in that it demonstrates…
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A Photo Editor – George Lois Rips Today’s Magazines A New One
George Lois Rips Today’s Magazines A New One – A Photo Editor In a interview with Blackbook (here) George Lois doesn’t pull any punches on the state of magazine design today. I was at the SPD awards ceremony when he received a lifetime achievement award of sorts and remember getting so charged up after listening…
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Nielsen folds Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews
I want to take this opportunity to offer heartfelt thanks to our colleagues who will be leaving the company for their dedication and commitment to Nielsen over the years. Please join me in wishing them well in their future endeavors. Link: Poynter Online – Romenesko