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Statement On Michael Hastings
buzzfeed.com
20 mentions — 23 hours ago
BuzzFeed is saddened to report that Michael Hastings died in a car accident early this morning in Los Angeles. He was 33.Ben Smith, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief, said in a statement:We are shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings is gone. Michael was a great, fearless journalist with ...
Missing Michael Hastings
buzzfeed.com
13 mentions — 18 hours ago
One of the great reporters of his generation died Tuesday at 33. The stories he wrote, and the ones he didn’t live to write.posted on June 19, 2013 at 12:12am EDT Michael Hastings was really only interested in writing stories someone didn’t want him to write — often ...
Michael Hastings Dead at 33 | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
20 mentions — 23 hours ago
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Michael Hastings, 'Rolling Stone' Contributor, Dead at 33The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los AngelesMichael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned. He was 33.Hastings' ...
Edward Snowden Q&A: NSA whistleblower answers your questions
guardian.co.uk
20 mentions — 2 days ago
The whistleblower behind the biggest intelligence leak in NSA history will be live online at 11am ET/4pm BST to answer your questions about the NSA surveillance revelationsIt is the interview the world's media organisations have been chasing for more than a week, but instead Edward Snowden is giving ...
Michael_Hastings comments on IAm Michael Hastings, a reporter for BuzzFeed and a writer for Rolling Stone.
reddit.com
9 mentions — 23 hours ago
1.) You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school. 2.) When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word "prose," or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer.3.) Be prepared to do a lot of things for free. This sucks, and ...
Russell Brand on MSNBC Mocking Media
youtube.com
4 mentions — 1 day ago
Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to like OvergrowDaGovernment's video.Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to dislike OvergrowDaGovernment's video.Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to add OvergrowDaGovernment's ...
Taking the pulse of the planet: How Twitter erases geography
gigaom.com
5 mentions — 1 day ago
Real-time social networks like Twitter and Facebook are connecting people around the globe in a myriad of different ways, millions of times every minute, but we hardly ever get to see those connections represented visually. That’s why research projects like a recent study from a team of scientists ...
When journalists attack: Glenn Greenwald takes on Kurt Eichenwald over the NSA story
paidcontent.org
6 mentions — 23 hours ago
Glenn Greenwald, a lawyer and author who writes for The Guardian, has come under fire for his reporting about the National Security Agency’s secret PRISM surveillance program, including criticism that the story was reported in haste and missed (or mis-stated) some crucial details. On Tuesday, some of this ...
The voting wars and the Supreme Court: a pre-ruling primer
Columbia Journalism Review
3 mentions — 1 day ago
Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquartersReporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the ...
Senate Intel Committee Blocks Former Staffer From Talking To Press About Oversight Process
TPMDC
7 mentions — 1 day ago
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has taken the unusual step of actively blocking a former committee aide from talking to TPM about congressional oversight of the intelligence community. At issue isn’t classified sources and methods of intelligence gathering but general information about how the committee functions — ...
Why We're Hacking The Newsroom
fastcolabs.com
2 mentions — 1 day ago
We don't plan to stop experimenting, so we'll be continually updating this post. If you have any comments or suggestions, tweet us @FastCoLabsIt may not be obvious yet, but publishing and software are converging. Code is increasingly its own type of content, and content is becoming inseparable from ...
Portland Press Herald investigation leads governor to issue gag order
Poynter.
3 mentions — 10 hours ago
by Mallary Jean TenorePublishedJune 19, 20137:14 amUpdatedJune 19, 20138:34 amColin Woodard received several tips last year about “a reign of terror” on the staff of Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection Agency.As he looked into the tips, Woodard began unraveling a twisted truth: Patricia Aho, Maine’s Department of Environmental ...
Photographer sues BuzzFeed for $3.6M over viral sharing model
paidcontent.org
9 mentions — 1 day ago
An Idaho photographer, Kai Eiselein, has filed a copyright lawsuit against BuzzFeed, claiming the site used one his images without permission for a soccer montage called “The 30 Funniest header faces.”The lawsuit, filed in New York earlier this month, claims BuzzFeed owes more than $3.6 million in damages ...
Which blogs stay and which go at 'The New York Times'?
Capital New York
3 mentions — 1 day ago
As we reported several months ago, The New York Times is in the midst of reviewing all of its blogs to determine which will stay and which will go as it prepares for a major web overhaul.The blogs have been a significant part of the Times' online news ...
The NSA story isn't "journalistic malfeasance" -- it's a story that is evolving in real time
paidcontent.org
7 mentions — 2 days ago
There have been a host of critical responses to the recent stories from the Guardian and Washington Post about the NSA and its massive phone-data and internet surveillance programs, and many of them have taken aim at the reporting involved in those stories — which some allege has ...
"What Part of 'Politico' Do You Not Understand?"
New Republic
5 mentions — 1 day ago
The dominant mode of Washington journalism tends to both reflect and entrench the values of its era. The eminent writers and editors of the immediate postwar age, such as James Reston and Ben Bradlee, were often comfortable with the powerful, and that coziness came just as America itself ...
News is like water now -- it takes the path of least resistance
paidcontent.org
10 mentions — 2 days ago
For anyone who has been following the evolution of the media industry over the past several years, the idea that news can find its own path to an audience now — whether it’s directly from a source via the social web or tools like Twitter, or through an ...
Study: Facebook third most popular news source in Arab world
Journalism.co.uk
7 mentions — 1 day ago
Broadcasters Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya named top outlets for accessing news across the region, followed by FacebookCopyright: Image by owenwbrown on Flickr. Some rights reservedIf you like our news and feature articles, you can sign up to receive our free daily (Mon-Fri) email newsletter (mobile friendly).Recruiting?Register to:Jobseeker?Register to:
R.I.P. Michael Hastings
salon.com
3 mentions — 21 hours ago
Topics:BuzzFeed,Rolling Stone,Michael Hastings,obituary,Journalism,Gen. Stanley McChrystal,MSNBC,Philippe Reines,R.I.P, Media News, Politics News There are so few committed truth-tellers
Edward Snowden Q&A: NSA whistleblower answers your questions
guardian.co.uk
12 mentions — 2 days ago
The whistleblower behind the biggest intelligence leak in NSA history will be live online at 11am ET/4pm BST to answer your questions about the NSA surveillance revelationsIt is the interview the world's media organisations have been chasing for more than a week, but instead Edward Snowden is giving ...
Has U.S. started an Internet war?
CNN.com
2 mentions — 1 day ago
Editor's note: Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of "Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive." More than passively eavesdropping, we're penetrating and damaging foreign networks for both espionage and to ready them for attack. We're creating custom-designed Internet weapons, pre-targeted and ready ...
“Having compelling content is one thing, but if you provide that, the reader will have to pay more”
“Having compelling content is one thing, but if ...
3 mentions — 1 day ago
Fuego: Get up-to-the-moment news and see what the future-of-news crowd is talking about and linking to. Paul Godfrey has been CEO of Canada’s largest newspaper chain, the Postmedia Network, for three years. In that time he’s cut more than 2,000 jobs, made two-thirds of content replicable across papers,
Don't Let Paper Paradigms Drive Your Digital Strategy
Harvard Business Review
7 mentions — 1 day ago
The way we publish on the web — our process and workflow — is mostly derived from what we know about putting ink on paper. Which makes sense, because for most of human history, print was all we had. In a world of connected devices, we need to ...
Source: Instagram Will Get Video On June 20 | TechCrunch
TechCrunch
10 mentions — 2 days ago
We’ve been working on getting more details on a press event that Facebook is having this week. Earlier, we wrote it could launch a news-reading app, but we have since heard more details that point to something else entirely. On June 20, a source says Facebook will unveil ...
A second look at the sequester
Columbia Journalism Review
3 mentions — 1 day ago
The federal budget sequester is back in the news. Three months after these across-the-board budget cuts began—some $85 billion in all, over time—some journalists are putting a human face in the story, instead of writing in the dry abstractions of budget policy. And others can easily follow up ...
A Catalogue of Journalistic Malfeasance
medium.com
5 mentions — 2 days ago
Two weeks ago, when the Guardian first leaked a Verizon court order to hand over its call metadata, a national debate began about privacy and security. Since then those leaks have continued, and they still drive the conversation. But much of that initial reporting turned out to be ...
Too late; we’re already hammered! JIMROMENESKO.COM
3 mentions — 9 hours ago
Correction from today’s Wall Street Journal:* Corrections & Amplifications (wsj.com)* Off Duty: Lovage recipes for summer (wsj.com)
Nate Silver: Politico Co-Founders Lack 'Curiosity For The World Outside Of The Bubble'
TPM LiveWire
4 mentions — 1 day ago
In an email sent Tuesday to TPM (posted below), Silver — who nailed the 2012 presidential election by correctly forecasting the outcome in all 50 states — elaborated on some of his criticisms of Politico, a publication specializing in Washington's insider culture that has frequently drawn his ire.
Investigating the Intern Economy
kickstarter.com
7 mentions — 6 days ago
We want to travel to college campuses across the country, asking one key question: What's your internship story?“I was opposed to the job morally, but luckily I’m fortunate enough that my parents supported me while I did it. I know most people aren’t so lucky. It’s just a ...
Michael Hastings
washingtonpost.com
3 mentions — 21 hours ago
Michael Hastings, a contributor to Rolling Stone and BuzzFeed, died on Tuesday morning in a car crash in Los Angeles at the unforgivably young age of 33.He is best known, rightly, for his 2010 Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who as commander of the U.S.-led force in Afghanistan was the face of the war that Hastings saw as misguided and poorly managed. His profile, “The Runaway General,” portrayed McChrystal as a loose cannon so sure of himself and his strategy for the war that he and his staff ...
Rupert Murdoch splits empire but keeps faith in tomorrow's newspapers
The Guardian
3 mentions — 17 hours ago
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation will be split in half on Wednesday as the mogul hopes to build two new empires out of his vast portfolio of assets. It is likely to prove the octogenarian's final major corporate move, and once again he is betting he has seen an ...
Schneier on Security: Blowback from the NSA Surveillance
schneier.com
4 mentions — 2 days ago
There's one piece of blowback that isn't being discussed -- aside from the fact that Snowden killed the chances of a liberal arts major getting a job at the DoD for a decade -- and that's how the massive NSA surveillance of the Internet affects the US's role ...
#Tip: Advice on working with numbers in coverage
Journalism.co.uk
3 mentions — 14 hours ago
The BBC College of Journalism website features a video focused on advice for journalists on working with numbers and best practice on covering statistics accurately.The video features a series of interviews with those experienced in the world of statistics, including chair of the UK Statistics Authority Andrew Dilnot; ...
The Morning Plum: Time to declassify those FISA court opinions, Mr. President
washingtonpost.com
2 mentions — 9 hours ago
President Obama, still facing widespread criticism over revelations about NSA phone gathering and internet mining, again defended the NSA programs yesterday. “I came into office committed to protecting the American people but also committed to our values and our ideals and one of our highest ideals is civil liberties and privacy,” Obama said. “I am confident that at this point we have struck the appropriate balance.”If that is so, then surely Obama would have no reason to support the status quo, in which Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions authorizing ...
P Diddy to launch cable music channel Revolt TV
guardian.co.uk
2 mentions — 9 hours ago
US hip-hop star aims to fill gap left when MTV stopped playing music videos with the 'first channel of the social media age'Sean "P Diddy" Combs is to launch a cable music channel, Revolt TV, which he claims will be the "first channel of the social media age" ...
Sharyl Attkisson: ‘I think I know’ source of computer breaches
washingtonpost.com
2 mentions — 1 day ago
CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson appears to be launching a media tour over her hacked computers. Yesterday she appeared on “CBS This Morning” with revelations that her computers would strangely turn on and off in the night, alerting her to unauthorized activity. She finished the day by ...