Category: Journalism
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Redbook Reporter Refuses To Disclose Source Of Recipe
Redbook Reporter Refuses To Disclose Source Of Recipe – America’s Finest News Source: Steuber, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for recipe reporting in 1996 and 2001, said that to divulge her source would jeopardize her First Amendment rights, as well as relationships with high-level recipe sources she has worked for years to develop.
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In Iran, Journalism Makes Use of Unverified News
In Iran, Journalism Makes Use of Unverified News – NYTimes.com: “Check the source” may be the first rule of journalism. But in the coverage of the protests in Iran this month, some news organizations have adopted a different stance: publish first, ask questions later. If you still don’t know the answer, ask your readers.
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Too much Michael Jackson?
Too much Michael Jackson? – Tim Rutten – Los Angeles Times: Newspaper editors and TV producers undercut the value of serious news media when they let website hits and social media volume dictate their coverage.
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TMZ Was Far Ahead in Reporting Jackson’s Death
TMZ Was Far Ahead in Reporting Jackson’s Death – NYTimes.com: For more than an hour, TMZ was essentially the only outlet claiming that Mr. Jackson was dead. Television and newspaper journalists read the TMZ report but largely held off on repeating it, for fear of making a mistake. Still, the bulletin traversed the Web with…
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Letter From Europe – Is Free News Really Worth the Price?
Letter From Europe – Is Free News Really Worth the Price? – NYTimes.com, by ALAN COWELL: It may be tempting, perhaps, to argue that, finally, that oft-reviled beast — the mainstream media — has been left in history’s wake. After the demise of typewriters and Telexes, the time of the tweet has arrived. The view…
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Canada and Newsweek Seek Release of Reporter Detained in Iran
IAN AUSTEN – NYTimes.com: The reporter, Maziar Bahari, who holds both Canadian and Iranian citizenship, was picked up Sunday at his mother’s home in Tehran by government security officials who seized videotapes and a laptop computer. Reporters Without Borders, an advocacy group, estimated that 26 journalists had been arrested in Iran since the presidential election…
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AP Issues Strict Facebook, Twitter Guidelines to Staff
Threat Level | Wired.com: The Associated Press is adopting a stringent social-networking policy for its employees, informing them to police their Facebook profiles “to make sure material posted by others doesn’t violate AP standards.”
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Media Agreed to Stay Silent on Kidnapping of Reporter David Rohde
Howard Kurtz – washingtonpost.com: Still, the unusual arrangement raises questions about whether journalists were giving special treatment to one of their own. “It certainly could appear that way, but it’s more complicated than that when a human life is at stake,” said Phil Bronstein, former editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. “It does involve a…
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U.S. Journalist Held Captive by Taliban Safely Escapes
washingtonpost.com: The reporter, David Rohde, 41, was taken captive Nov. 10 with local reporter Tahir Ludin and their driver, while he was in the early stages of researching a book on Afghanistan. News organizations, including The Washington Post, did not report on the abduction at the request of the Times, which feared that publication of…
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Why We Joined the Media Blackout on Kidnapping of NYT Reporter
Greg Mitchell: In fact, what I witnessed in the six months after we found out about it was the most amazing press blackout on a major event that I have ever seen: at least in the case of a story involving such a prominent news outlet and a leading reporter. I wonder how strongly, if…
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The betrayal of the Fourth Estate
Xark!: The betrayal of the Fourth Estate: The tarnish on the halo newspaper execs have spent so much time polishing isn’t just their unwillingness to acknowledge their own limitations and failures. It’s how they treat their people. The betrayal of the Fourth Estate contract by newspaper management has played a huge role in their impending…
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Journalists for Start-Ups and Freelancers Face Dangers
BRIAN STELTER – NYTimes.com: As the journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee complete their third month of detainment in North Korea, it remains rather astonishing that they were there in the first place to report for a fledgling cable channel. But their path there may explain in part why they remain in custody.
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Boston Globe Workers Reject Deal On Pay Cuts
Boston Globe Workers Reject Deal On Pay Cuts – NYTimes.com
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N. Korea Convicts 2 U.S. Journalists, 12 Years Hard Labor
Blaine Harden – washingtonpost.com: A North Korean court sentenced two U.S. journalists to 12 years in a labor camp Monday
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Boston Globe Employees to Vote on Cutbacks
NYTimes.com: Months of labor acrimony at The Boston Globe will come to a head on Monday, when members of the newspaper’s largest union are to vote on deep cuts in wages, benefits and job security, amid growing signs that they could well reject the deal.
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Moscow Crime Reporter, Facing His Obituary Daily
Ellen Barry – NYTimes.com: After the most recent attack on Sergei Kanev — attempted strangulation with a wire, in his apartment’s stairwell here — his editor visited him and delicately suggested that he take a six-month sabbatical from crime reporting, in America. Mr. Kanev still chortles with delight recalling this story, as if he had…
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Surviving Without Newspapers
A. J. Liebling – Surviving Without Newspapers – NYTimes.com: The only complaints I heard came from commuters who lived at such short distances from the city that it was impractical for them to smoke opium during the trip. Some of these people said that now that they had no newspapers they were compelled to look…
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Xark!: The newspaper suicide pact
Xark!: The newspaper suicide pact: I think I’ll remember last week as the moment when I finally knew, with a certainty approaching fatigue, that the newspaper industry – the business and passion that both shaped and warped me over the past 20 years – had chosen ritual suicide. The choice appears grimly reached and irrevocable.…
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PDNPulse: Newspaper to Rely on Volunteer Photographers for a Month
PDNPulse: Newspaper to Rely on Volunteer Photographers for a Month
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Trial of Journalists Pits North Korea Against World
washingtonpost.com says: Facing perhaps 10 years in a labor camp, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, TV reporters accused of illegally entering North Korea and committing unspecified “hostile acts,” go on trial Thursday in Pyongyang in a case that has become part of a nail-biting face-off this spring between North Korea and much of the rest…