Category: Journalism
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Journalists Who Left Star-Ledger Start News Site
The Media Equation – NYTimes.com says: “It’s amazing,” he said. “We just kept updating the story as it went along, and it was there instantly, for everyone to read.” And he didn’t seem to mind that he was paid exactly nothing for his lifetime of experience and the article. It’s a tough time to be…
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The Scoop That Changed Parliament, and News
ERIC PFANNER – NYTimes.com says: One of the most interesting aspects of the scandal is the revelation that old-fashioned scoops can still sell papers. Many publishers have assumed that in the Internet era, “exclusives” stay that way for about three seconds, so they are not worth pursuing. Instead, they have shifted the emphasis of their…
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L.A. police union wants San Diego newspaper writers fired | L.A. Now | Los Angeles Times
L.A. Now | Los Angeles Times says: The union representing Los Angeles police officers is pressuring the owner of San Diego’s main newspaper to change the paper’s editorial stance on labor issues or to fire its editorial writers. The feud is rooted in the recent purchase of the San Diego Union-Tribune by Platinum Equity, a…
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Mostly True: A Little More on Hugh Van Es
Ken Jarecke says: This should be required reading for anyone picking up a camera (or a pencil) with the hope of making the world a slightly better place.
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Detained U.S. Journalists to Face Trial in N. Korea
washingtonpost.com says: In one sentence on its state news service, North Korea said its central court has “decided to try the American journalists on June 4 according to the indictment of the competent organ.”
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Huffington Post turns pay to play
dvafoto says: Huffington Post has put another nail in the coffin of the notion of a paying career in journalism. Now, instead of just contributing to the site for free (where does that $20+ million in seed money go?), would-be Huffington Post writers can pay for the chance to be an intern at the site.
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Few TV Reports on Audience Flight – NYTimes.com
RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA says: Papers found a lot to report about declining news audiences, while national television news shows had little to say. And though the problems of print and broadcast have been similar in scope, both media dwelled primarily on what was happening to newspapers.
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The Media Equation – Save the Separation of Press and State
David Carr says: David Simon, the former reporter from The Baltimore Sun and now a creator of television series including “The Wire,” boiled it down thusly in his turn at the microphone. “High-end journalism can and should bite any hand that tries to feed it,” he said. “And it should bite a government hand most…
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Reporter to NY Times Publisher: You Erased My Career
Thomas Crampton says: I have a major personal and professional gripe against The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune. For more than a decade, as you know, I enjoyed a wonderful and globe-trotting career at both newspapers. I would recommend anyone to work for these publications. You were a great employer, I had…
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Big-Screen e-Readers May Help Save Newspapers
NYTimes.com says: Now the recession-ravaged newspaper and magazine industries are hoping for their own knight in shining digital armor, in the form of portable reading devices with big screens.
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Newspapers Have Essential Strengths
David Carr says: Reporters like to think of themselves as essential to the national well-being, which might be just one more measure of how out of touch we are, but journalists are not the only ones who are suggesting as much.
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How ABC Interview Shaped a Torture Debate
From NYTimes.com: Mr. Zubaydah started to cooperate after being waterboarded for “probably 30, 35 seconds,” Mr. Kiriakou told the ABC reporter Brian Ross. “From that day on he answered every question.” His claims — unverified at the time, but repeated by dozens of broadcasts, blogs and newspapers — have been sharply contradicted by a newly…
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last dance?
From shooting from the hip: I have been and will always be an optimist. I don’t stress about things and have tried to roll with the punches but this past week the punches have seemed to come in bunches. Check it out here.
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The Medium – Comment Is King
From NYTimes.com: Someone should be paying more attention, especially since online newspaper commenters as a whole seem to have (at least) the stamina, drive and spare time to become a cogent part of online journalism. But as it is, online commentary is a bête noire for journalists and readers alike. Most journalists hate to read…
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The final ‘Recession Diaries’ blog the Chicago Tribune does not want you to read
From True/Slant: At a time when the newspaper I love needs every reader it can possibly hold onto, no story is more timely than that of a man covering the recession and telling people how to survive it. Yesterday, I became a casualty, but as much as I’m licking my wounds, I feel more sad…
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I.F. Stone, Soviet Agent—Case Closed
From Commentary Magazine: When new information about Americans who had cooperated with the Soviet KGB began to emerge in the 1990s, no individual case generated as much controversy as that of the journalist I.F. Stone, who had long been installed in the pantheon of left-wing heroes as a symbol of rectitude and a teller of…
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Why We Should Get Rid of the White House Press Corps
washingtonpost.com: Name a major political story broken by a White House correspondent. A thorough debunking of the Bush case for Iraqi WMD? McClatchy Newspapers’ State Department and national security correspondents. Bush’s abuse of signing statements? The Boston Globe’s legal affairs correspondent. Even Watergate came off The Washington Post’s Metro desk. Here are some stories that…