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Andrew Davis would love to help Warren Buffett save the newspaper industry JIMROMENESKO.COM
3 mentions — 14 hours ago
Every Monday at 7 a.m. Andrew Davis sits down and writes a letter to Warren Buffett. His goal is to get a meeting with the billionaire and chat about the newspaper industry.“I believe that newspapers can survive,” Davis writes on his blog. “And I believe I can help ...
Everyone Secretly Hates "Snow Fall"
The Awl
11 mentions — 2 days ago
Cody Brown, of Scrollkit, made a replica of the ballyhooed New York Times "Snow Fall" story—in about an hour. Naturally, the Times made a copyright complaint: he was, after all, using their images and whatnot! So he removed it. Then they insisted that he "remove any reference to ...
The Al Jazeera Revolution
Newsweek and The Daily Beast
7 mentions — 22 hours ago
It always seemed a little improbable that Arab sheiks could save American journalism. But in a business as troubled as the vast wasteland of American television news, hope springs eternal, and the Al Jazeera network out of Qatar seemed to offer an opulent oasis. In January, with great ...
9 eye-opening clips from Vice's documentary on Afghanistan
Center for Investigative Reporting
2 mentions — 11 hours ago
While recently embedded with U.S. Marines assigned to train Afghan soldiers and police in Afghanistan, filmmaker Ben Anderson found the country ill-prepared to take over its own security.His new documentary for Vice, "This is What Winning Looks Like," takes a shocking look at the war in Afghanistan and the guardians to which U.S. and British forces will be entrusting the country after withdrawing. With a sharp lens focused on the ineptitude, drug abuse, sexual misconduct, criminality and corruption of Afghan security forces, many parts of the film are disturbing. Anderson ...
Why scoops and objectivity matter less and less -- because context is everything
paidcontent.org
4 mentions — 14 hours ago
Journalism has been evolving away from just a repetition of facts or events and towards context and analysis, research shows — but this evolution has also created tension for media companies because it conflicts with the principle of objectivity.We’ve argued before that the life-span of a breaking-news alert ...
Just typing on my medium — Goth things
medium.com
2 mentions — 13 hours ago
Senior Editor at @BuzzFeed. Say what you will about Diaper (the lifestyle), but I'm chillen with my 2000 pt army of Chaos Space Marine Ownage, and I Wear.Senior Editor at @BuzzFeed. Say what you will about Diaper (the lifestyle), but I'm chillen with my 2000 pt army of ...
Moore Oklahoma Tornado 5/20/13
youtube.com
3 mentions — 18 hours ago
Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to like Charles Gafford's video.Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to dislike Charles Gafford's video.Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to ...
Stop matching
Soup
10 mentions — 2 days ago
To paraphrase myself from this article: Sometimes it’s a business strategy: ignore you competition, don’t let your readers know they exist, pretend they didn’t beat you. Sometimes it’s cultural: the journalists come from a print background and didn’t grow up with the web like digital natives. Sometimes it’s technical: the CMS simply wasn’t created with links in mind (this sounds crazy but actually true in some cases) or the system is built to serve multiple masters (print and digital) and the print side inexplicably wins out over the digital.The practice ...
Crowdfunding Journalism: A New Financing Model for Freelancers?
PBS
6 mentions — 2 days ago
Toronto-based freelance reporter Naheed Mustafa always paid her own way when she reported from abroad. But that meant that about 70 percent to 80 percent of what she earned went straight toward paying for the costs of traveling.Most news organizations don’t reimburse freelancers for travel costs, and the ...
Objectivity and the decades-long shift from “just the facts” to “what does it mean?”
Objectivity and the decades-long shift from “jus...
13 mentions — 2 days ago
“Investigative journalism may have pride of place within the mythology of American news, but that’s not really what journalists have been up to, by and large.”If I had only one short sentence to describe it, I’d say that journalism is factual reports of current events. At least, that’s ...
How To Attend a Funeral — Unforgettable Moments
medium.com
3 mentions — 20 hours ago
You do not sit in the front row. That is for family. You find an inconspicuous place towards the back. And you hope you aren’t noticed. You hope the family doesn’t see you. You hope the new husband doesn’t mind.And you remember the last time you saw her.
Justice for Sale, Part Two: Ignoring the Law
Voice of San Diego
2 mentions — 13 hours ago
Corporations across the country had increasingly been inserting clauses into their contracts that barred consumers from taking them to court. Instead, consumers who signed the contracts were limited to challenging the companies in arbitration, a privatized form of justice that some experts and attorneys say is often heavily ...
Mum talked down Woolwich terrorists who told her: 'We want to start a war in London tonight' - Telegraph
telegraph.co.uk
11 mentions — 1 day ago
A mother-of-two described tonight how she put her own life on the line bytrying to persuade the soldier’s murderers to hand over their weapons.Cub scout leader Ingrid Loyau-Kennett selflessly engaged the terrorists inconversation and kept her nerve as one of them told her: “We want to start awar ...
Judge apologizes for lack of transparency in James Rosen leak probe
The Washington Post
4 mentions — 1 day ago
???initialComments:true! pubdate:05/22/2013 16:45 EDT! commentPeriod:14! commentEndDate:6/5/13 4:45 EDT! currentDate:5/21/13 8:0 EDT! allowComments:true! displayComments:true! The chief judge of the District’s federal court issued an unusual order Wednesday, apologizing to the public and the media for not making certain court documents widely available online.The gesture of transparency by U.S. District ...
Top Politico Reporter Joins The New York Times
huffingtonpost.com
3 mentions — 14 hours ago
Politico's Jonathan Martin, who has been with the publication since its earliest days, is leaving for the New York Times, according to a memo obtained by The Huffington Post. Martin will become the paper's new national political correspondent, a storied position once held by the legendary R. W.
The NYT illustrates how not to take a compliment -- send a cease-and-desist notice instead
paidcontent.org
6 mentions — 1 day ago
The New York Times has racked up a lot of praise — including some from Om — for its ground-breaking multimedia experiment “Snow Fall,” which showcased a lot of design elements many media companies might want to emulate. And since others might not have the same abundant resources ...
Submerged Structure Beneath Sea of Galilee Stumps Archaeologists
talkingpointsmemo.com
3 mentions — 7 hours ago
TIBERIAS, Israel (AP) — The massive circular structure appears to be an archaeologists dream: a recently discovered antiquity that could reveal secrets of ancient life in the Middle East and is just waiting to be excavated.It’s thousands of years old — a conical, manmade behemoth weighing hundreds of ...
Leonard Downie: Obama’s war on leaks undermines investigative journalism
The Washington Post
4 mentions — 8 hours ago
???initialComments:true! pubdate:05/23/2013 19:35 EDT! commentPeriod:14! commentEndDate:6/6/13 7:35 EDT! currentDate:5/23/13 8:0 EDT! allowComments:true! displayComments:true! Leonard Downie Jr. is a vice president at large of The Washington Post, where he served as executive editor from 1991 to 2008. He is the Weil family professor of journalism at the Walter Cronkite ...
Six book publishing lessons from Open Road Media's first three years
paidcontent.org
3 mentions — 20 hours ago
When the former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman launched Open Road Media in 2009, the publisher was one of the first of its kind: The idea was that it would mine the backlist for books that had never been available as ebooks, snap up the digital rights and publish ...
I-5 bridge over Skagit River collapses, cars with people in water
king5.com
4 mentions — 6 hours ago
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. -- The Washington State Patrol says the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River at Mount Vernon has collapsed, dumping vehicles and people into the water. Trooper Mark Francis said the four-lane bridge collapsed about 7 p.m. Francis says he has no idea how many ...
Getting started with login verification | Twitter Blog
Twitter Blog
13 mentions — 2 days ago
Every day, a growing number of people log in to Twitter. Usually these login attempts come from the genuine account owners, but we occasionally hear from people whose accounts have been compromised by email phishing schemes or a breach of password data elsewhere on the web.Today we’re introducing ...
Denver Fox affiliate, Examiner.com hoaxed by story of man being mistaken for a terrorist
Poynter.
3 mentions — 20 hours ago
by Andrew BeaujonPublishedMay 23, 20139:17 amUpdatedMay 23, 20139:30 amTVSpy | Perazzi | KDVR | KUSA | Examiner.com Denver TV station KDVR, a Fox affiliate, broadcast a story Saturday that claimed an Italian shotgun-company executive “was taken in for questioning by law enforcement” after a taxi driver mistook him for a terrorist. KDVR didn’t speak to the executive, Daniele Perazzi, but to his “U.S. attorney,” who “told FOX31 Denver that her client
The Oral History of NY1
Complex
2 mentions — 16 hours ago
It was summertime in New York City, 1992. David Dinkins was mayor. The city was mourning the 27 passengers who died aboard U.S. Airways flight 405 after it crashed upon takeoff at LaGuardia. The Real World had just wrapped its first season at a loft down in SoHo.
U.S. Politics
Reuters.com
3 mentions — 1 week ago
Miller is still coming to testify before ways and means friday despite being fired. He's staying on thru June"Americans are right to be angry about it... I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, especially not the IRS" -- President ObamaU.S. House panel seeks interviews ...
Interactive: Your Hospital May Be Hazardous To Your Health – Inside FRONTLINE - FRONTLINE
PBS
2 mentions — 7 days ago
So much of what we call “digital television,” YouTube, Netflix or Hulu, is just small television, distributed over the internet.At FRONTLINE, though, we’ve long been interested in understanding what happens when the internet breaks into the box, and transforms the video itself into something interactive and social. What ...
John McCain: Cable TV, the right way
latimes.com
3 mentions — 18 hours ago
According to the Federal Communications Commission, the price for basic cable has grown by an average of 6.1% a year over the last 16 years ¿ three times the rate of inflation and far outpacing the average American's paycheck. Cable bills are projected to continue rising to an ...
Inquirer Reporters at War With Philly.com
05/23/2013
3 mentions — 15 hours ago
A May 13 Inquirer business column by Diane Mastrull was posted online with a curious editor's note...A May 13 Inquirer business column by Diane Mastrull was posted online with a curious editor’s note: “The opinions and analysis expressed here reflect the views of the authors alone, and do ...
News from The Associated Press
hosted.ap.org
3 mentions — 5 hours ago
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Telegraph website traffic continues to grow despite launch of metered paywall
PressGazette
3 mentions — 19 hours ago
The adoption of a metered paywall by Telegraph Media Group does not appear to have had any major effect on the site's overall traffic.The paywall went live in March and ABC-audited national newspaper website figures for April have now been released. This was the first full month where ...
Drummer Lee Rigby killed in Woolwich incident
GOV.UK
4 mentions — 17 hours ago
The soldier’s details are being released pending formal identification from the Metropolitan Police Service.Drummer Lee Rigby or ‘Riggers’ to his friends was born in July 1987 in Crumpsall, Manchester. He joined the Army in 2006 and on successful completion of his infantry training course at Infantry Training Centre ...
The FBI Investigated the Song ‘Louie Louie’ for Two Years
Smart News
2 mentions — 7 hours ago
The song “Louie Louie” by the Kingsmen might not strike you as Federal Bureau of Investigation material. But the song was under investigation by the FBI for two whole years. The bureau’s interest had to do with the lyrics of the song, which most listeners find either confusing ...
Charting Obama’s Crackdown on National Security Leaks
ProPublica
3 mentions — 2 days ago
Two analysts at the RAND Corporation, Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, were indicted for leaking classified information about the Vietnam War—what came to be known as The Pentagon Papers. The case was dismissed in 1973 due to government misconduct.Samuel Loring Morison, a civilian analyst with the Navy, was ...
Obama: Leak Investigations Could 'Chill Investigative Journalism'
huffingtonpost.com
4 mentions — 14 hours ago
President Obama said Thursday that he is “troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable.”In a major speech on national security, Obama said that the “Justice Department’s investigation of national security leaks offers a recent example of the challenges involved ...
Uglybridges.com
I-5 over SKAGIT R, Skagit County, Washington
2 mentions — 6 hours ago
Source: National Bridge Inventory (1992, 2000, 2010 editions)Information not verified. Use at your own risk.
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on ...
4 mentions — 2 days ago
“We’re used to treating information as ‘free,’” writes Jaron Lanier in his latest book Who Owns the Future?, “but the price we pay for the illusion of ‘free’ is only workable so long as most of the overall economy isn’t about information.”Lanier argues that a free-culture mindset is ...
The real origins of Tumblr
The real origins of Tumblr
2 mentions — 8 hours ago
Months before Yahoo’s $1.1 billion acquisition turned him into an overnight media sensation, David Karp recounted the creation of Tumblr at the Austin Convention Center during the South by Southwest Interactive conference in March."I tried all of the great tools that were around at the time—WordPress, Blogger—and obviously ...