Category: Journalism
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'Most E-Mailed' List Tearing New York Times' Newsroom Apart
“Your reputation is everything here at the Times, and if you want get known, you’ve got to deliver what readers want: differences between men and women, and photos of cats,” national political reporter Adam Nagourney said. “I suppose I could be most e-mailed, too, if I sat in front of my computer all day making…
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Regret the Error » The Year in Media Errors and Corrections
The Eastern Daily Press has apologised after confusing the Bishop of Norwich with serial killer Steve Wright, known as the “Suffolk strangler”. Check it out here.
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Content and Its Discontents
Does anyone still believe that the forms of movies, television, magazines and newspapers might exist independently of their rapidly changing modes of distribution? The thought has become unsustainable. Check it out here.
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Indian journalists in media firestorm – Variety
Through blogs, file-sharing and social networking functions on the Internet, dozens of eyewitness reports, some coming from within the two besieged hotels, delivered information faster than conventional media and challenged some of its reporting. Twitter, a user-generated service that delivers text message-sized “tweets,” for instance, reported that there was still gunfire inside the Taj Mahal…
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Violence Against Journalists Grows in Mexico's Drug War – washingtonpost.com
Armando Rodríguez, at El Diario newspaper, was the top crime reporter in the deadliest city in Mexico. He had seen it all. But this was different. This was personal. Earlier this month, someone had hung the decapitated body of a local drug thug from a bridge on the airport road. Later the head appeared downtown…
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Shocker: Tribune Co. Gives Notice To Drop AP
Tribune Company has given a two-year notice to the Associated Press that its daily newspapers plan to drop the news service, becoming the first major newspaper chain to do so since the recent controversy over new rates began. Check it out here.
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Beware, Sharks. P. R. Agents, Too. — Talking With Somali Pirates
It was probably my 50th call. The line had always been busy. Or the phone had been shut off. But on Tuesday morning, someone actually picked up. “Can I speak to the pirate spokesman, please?” Check it out here.
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A Photo Editor – Media Needs A Makeover
The pace of doom and gloom stories for printed media continues unabated but I’ve noticed more and more that are offering brilliant insight into the problem and even a few solutions. Check it out here.
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Convention Cutting – Forbes.com
Forget April. For bean counters at financially troubled newspapers, August is the cruelest month. Their budget-stretching began with coverage of the Beijing Olympics, which ends Aug. 24. A day later, the Democratic National Convention kicks off in Denver, and the Republican National Convention begins Sept. 1 in St. Paul, Minn. The result is predictable. “Almost…
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Things Get Testy at Olympic News Conference – 2008 Olympics
Every morning during the Olympics, the local organizing committee and the International Olympic Committee address the world’s media at a state-of-the-Games news conference. These things are rarely entirely smooth sailing for the officials, but Wednesday’s conference was unusually testy. Check it out here.
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Local Media in a Postmodern World: A Reasonable View of Tomorrow – The Digital Journalist
As the disruption to the mass media business models of traditional media becomes more acute, more and more veteran journalists are beginning to ask how the business of news will be funded. Of course, this question comes from a belief that professional news — that which is funded by advertising — is a permanent institutional…
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John Edwards scandal rocks US media | World news | The Observer
When former presidential candidate John Edwards finally admitted to having an extramarital affair this weekend he faced an outpouring of recrimination. But a lot of ire has now been aimed at the mainstream media in America, which did not report on the story even as it became a national talking point on the internet and…
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A Photo Editor – A Cluetrain Manifesto For Newspapers
A blog post written by William Lobdell, an 18 year veteran of the Los Angeles Times entitled “42 Things I Know” should serve as a clue train manifesto for newspaper Check it out here.
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In Khartoum, a Surreally Mundane Experience – washingtonpost.com
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sometimes, the things reporters do here in Africa can seem harrowing from afar. But up close, the experiences tend to be more Seinfeld than 24, more surreally mundane than high adventure. My recent eight-hour non-detention detention by Sudanese intelligence agents in Khartoum was a long, sleepy day of waiting and more waiting…
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Newspapers: Why Newspapers Shouldn't Allow Comments
Comments are thought to be an added value to a newspaper’s site—providing another reason to read. You come for the article, and stay for the interesting discussion. The only problem is, there is no interesting discussion. Almost never. Not even from the mythical supersmart New York Times readers. Check it out here.
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iPhone line-waiter strikes back at jackass TV reporter – Boing Boing
An obnoxious TV reporter went to Burbank to ask stupid questions to people waiting in line for the new iPhone. I was delighted to see that my pal Jeff, or his identical twin brother (he really has one) told the reporter he was a jackass. Check it out here.
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“It’s worth fighting for”
This evening at the Tampa Tribune, editor in chief Janet Coats sat in a rolling chair in the center of the newsroom while everyone gathered around for the latest news on layoffs. She went over the list of who was layed off and why. Then she reexplained that 10 more layoffs were to come in…
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Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license) – Boing Boing
In the name of “defin[ing] clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt” the Associated Press is now selling “quotation licenses” that allow bloggers, journallers, and people who forward quotations from articles to co-workers to quote their articles. The licenses start at $12.50 for quotations of…
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Note, Head Found Near Mexican Newspaper Office
A note threatening a Mexican journalist was found outside the office of a newspaper in southern Mexico on Monday, two days after someone left a severed head there. Tabasco state Attorney General Gustavo Rosario said the letter was directed at Juan Padilla, editor of El Correo de Tabasco, which recently carried reports about migrant smuggling…