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Time?s Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf have a months long tick-tock chronicling the steps and missteps of soon-to-be-former White House Counsel Greg Craig. There?s too much good stuff in there to bother with a block quote. In essence, the article lays out how Craig, who thought that both the [...]
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Memo to Sean Hannity, who is calling for James O?Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Andrew Breitbart to get a ?journalism award? for their video sting of ACORN: Generally, when in possession of what one believes to be newsworthy information, the journalistic thing to do is get it out to the [...]
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Today?s New York Times features a front-page news analysis by Kevin Sack about the controversy sparked by the new cancer screening guidelines. The article closes with this graf: ?It?s going to take time, there?s no doubt about it,? said Louise B. Russell, a research professor at the Rutgers University [...]
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As anyone who?s read my writing can probably tell, I think political journalism should pay more attention to what political scientists have to say. So I was heartened to see that today?s New York Times includes an op-ed co-authored by Andrew Gelman, the Columbia statistician and political scientist, along [...]
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Today's "quirky" front-page story in the New York Times - there's always one - is a Styles section type piece, perhaps worthy of the Business section, with the headline, "Luxury Stores Trim Inventory and Discounts." But the story gets a lot more interesting inside the jump, thanks to an [...]
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If you felt, yesterday evening, a faint feeling of emptiness...a vague notion of despair...a more-pronounced-than-usual sense of ennui: it was probably because, for a sad span of nine hours last night, The Daily Dish...went dark. Yes, we know. It was a difficult time for us all. But! After the [...]
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To piggyback on Greg's note about today's Gail Collins op-ed on the mammogram controversy...I have to say, I found it to be one of the most powerful columns she's written to date: I am going out on a limb to say that the real problem with a test that [...]
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The lead story in today?s special ?Business of Green? section in The New York Times is about the controversy over the Chamber of Commerce?s stance on climate change. Reporter John M. Broder notes that some high-profile members have left the group over the issue. And just how big is [...]
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Gail Collins owns up to a writer's truth today: I have never believed that everything happens for a reason. But I do feel very strongly that everything happens so that it can be turned into a column. The rest--which has to do with the current mammogram controversy--is here. [...]
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Click the play button below to see my live tweets as the Senate considers the Free Flow of Information Act. You can stream the hearing live at the Senate Judiciary site. The hearing has ended, but you can still read the once-live tweets from me and the Society of [...]
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Add that headline to the list of best/worst newspaper contests to go down in history. The New York Post is promoting a contest to win one of three polo shirts embroidered with the logo of Bernie Madoff's 55-foot yacht, "Bull." The Post purchased the shirts at an auction of [...]
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David Brooks, in his column today, writes: ?The standard thing these days is for Americans to scold each other for our profligacy, to urge fiscal Puritanism. But it?s not clear Americans have ever really been self-disciplined.? That sort of phrasing suggests that there?s something wrong with ?the standard thing.? [...]
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This morning, I was a guest on The Exchange, a New Hampshire Public Radio talk show. Up for discussion was the contemporary legal landscape as the First Amendment and shield laws meet the internet age. The Granite State has been hosting one such clash, as CJR noted in April, [...]
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Via @jackshafer, I came across this moving, photo-heavy blog post from the Washington City Paper recording the sudden and unexpected death of the Washington Blade, one of the most prominent and valued publications in the gay press, at the hands of their corporate owners, Window Media. One optimistic take [...]
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Criticism of Malcolm Gladwell, the bestselling New Yorker writer, seems to be reaching ? yes! ? a tipping point. The critiques have come from a variety of angles ? literary critics lambast his glibness; The Daily Beast doesn?t like his dating habits; The Nation doesn?t like, well, anything about [...]
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With Lou Dobbs and Sarah Palin both making the rounds in a post-take-this-job-and-shove-it media blitz (Dobbs left his gig as CNN anchor last week, Palin resigned as Alaska governor in July), and with rampant speculation that both quit their gigs in order to run for higher office, comes an [...]
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Another day, another future-of-news conference. Today's is sponsored by Minnesota Public Radio, and is taking place now. Right now. Learn more about the proceedings, and follow them live, here. [...]
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The Chronicle of Higher Education has invited Michael Schudson and Leonard Downie to follow-up on one of the recommendations their ?Reconstruction of American Journalism? report put forward: that universities, which have long provided institutional support for independent knowledge creation and research, get more involved in producing and sustaining journalism. [...]
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Apropos of my Friday piece on Sarah Palin, a new Washington Post poll finds her drawing somewhat stronger support among Republicans than the Gallup poll I mentioned. Full data seems not to be available to the public yet, but Post pollster Jon Cohen writes that ?among Republicans, her positive [...]
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Today's otherwise wholly unremarkable New York Times write-up on Newsweek's editorial and financial health does contain the seeds of an interesting parlor game: whose heads-as-busts adorn editor Jon Meacham's desk? The original photo is a little wide, so some squinting and guessing is necessary. But from left to right, [...]
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Der Spiegel has conducted an interview with Umberto Eco, the novelist, critic, semiotician, philosopher, and all-around Thinker of Things. They discuss, among many other topics: Ulysses, the cultural power of lists, the definitive meaning of duck-billed mammals, and...Google. Eruditely, of course, in each case. Below, the Google passage: SPIEGEL: [...]
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Kudos to Jessica Valenti for setting interviewer Deborah Solomon straight on a point of fact in a Q&A in this week?s New York Times Magazine (and to the magazine, which heavily edits these conversations, for including this exchange): As the founder and editor of the blog Feministing.com, how would [...]
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That old nuisance, ?balance as bias,? cropped up in the press again on Thursday in an article in the Telegraph about the theories of climate skeptic Ian Plimer, an Australian geologist. There isn?t even the pretense of a news peg. For some reason, the paper?s environment correspondent, Louise Gray, [...]
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A short note, coming off of Greg?s earlier post on some federal deficit confusion over at Politico. To summarize, the piece focuses on the White House?s supposed new emphasis on deficit reduction. One possible consequence of this re-prioritization is a de-prioritization of cap-and-trade climate legislation. Or at least that?s [...]
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...and Sarah Palin has, inevitably, a unique take on her impossible-to-overhype-the-importance-of campaign interview with CBS's Katie Couric, as summarized by the AP from the onetime VP-candidate/governor's forthcoming memoir: She says that the idea to meet with Couric came from McCain campaign aide Nicolle Wallace, who told Palin that Couric [...]
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Taking place at Yale today and tomorrow is a conference: "Journalism & the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?" Participants include Paul Starr, Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, C.W. Anderson, PEJ's Tom Rosentiel, Columbia's own Michael Schudson...and many other luminaries. You can follow the live-stream of the conference [...]
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The federal budget deficit, it seems, is back on the White House?s agenda. David Brooks, in his column today, asserted in passing that once (if?) health care reform passes, President Obama will "pick some fights with his own party over spending." At Politico, meanwhile, Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei [...]
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Last night on The Office, the gang heard a rumor that Dunder Mifflin was going bankrupt and upon investigation, came up against the Wall Street Journal paywall that is at the center of the current News. Corp feud with Google. The $1.99 fee stopped Michael from reading beyond the [...]
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ProPublica's Stephen Engelberg takes a refreshingly thorough look at the coverage of Nadal Malik Hasan--"a classic run-and-gun investigative story in which dozens of reporters badger officials to disclose a new fact (which gets you on page one) or two new facts (which is enough to snag the coveted lead-of-the-paper [...]
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Steve Dahl, Chicago area radio personality and special contributor to the Chicago Tribune online, took to the Web to comment on all the useless commentary on the Web. When did public opinion merit the same amount of airtime as the actual story? Back in the day, it used to [...]
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When it comes to juvenile, intra-media fighting, CJR and its research associates have determined--after extensive data-mining, number-crunching, and textual analysis--that the media's preferred mode of intra-insult seems to be of the phallic persuasion. To wit: Dana Milbank telling Nico Pitney that "You're such a dick," for example, and, more [...]
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Ruth Teichroeb, who worked as an investigative reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1997 until its demise in March, is not done investigating. On Wednesday she published a survey on her ironically titled blog, Safety Net, of what has become of her former colleagues in the last nine months. [...]
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In the wake of Lou Dobbs?s abrupt resignation from CNN, there?s been plenty of speculation about what he?ll do next: Jump to Fox? Run for president? Indulge his love of outer space? But the most interesting thing I've read today about Dobbs is this passage on the early days [...]
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So Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California, guested on Larry King Live last night. And the results were...horribly, weirdly, painfully awkward. Just...yeah. Larry's half-baffled/half-dismayed face in the freeze-frame below pretty much says it all. [...]
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Ruth Teichroeb, former Post-Intelligencer writer and current blogger, catches up with her colleagues to see where they are now--7 months after the paper closed. The results are anything but reassuring, with less than 1/3 of the 71 respondents having found full time jobs and fewer still in journalism. Seventy-one [...]
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So Lou Dobbs has been sent to a nice farm upstate, where he will be free to run and jump and play and practice advocacy journalism. Mostly, this news has been greeted with some combination of snark, ennui, and unbridled schadenfreudic delight. Below, some assorted reactions to the news, [...]
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Among the questions prompted by the New York Times?s latest national-security scoop?this one alleging that executives at the private security firm Blackwater approved a plan to bribe Iraqi officials in the wake of a 2007 episode in which the company?s guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians?one of the most [...]
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Science news aficionados that are passing through New York City this week should check out the thirty-third Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, which kicks off at the American Museum of Natural History Thursday night and runs through Sunday. Named after the famed cultural anthropologist, a former assistant curator [...]
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Here's a illustrative moment, retold by "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It" author Ken Auletta to Howard Kurtz this past weekend on CNN's Reliable Sources: KURTZ: Now, Google also trying to build a vast online library, having disagreements with authors and publishers about that effort. [...]
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We invite you, dear reader, to nominate CJR in the "Best Site for Journalists" category of Mashable's 3rd Annual Open Web Awards. After all, in this topsy-turvy, circulation plummeting, layoff-riven, traffic-obsessed, Face-Twitter-verse of a 24-hour news cycle ? who is the voice of reason for journalists to turn to? [...]
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Of all the Mysterious Things in the world--the Bermuda Triangle, the Great Sphinx, crop circles, Anderson Cooper--perhaps none is more mysterious than The New Yorker's un-published masthead. Who--or what--accounts for the magazine's weekly offering of thorough reporting and sparkling prose? What coterie of characters--artists, writers, hipsters, flâneurs, urban professionals, [...]
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Move over, eating crow. The Chicago Tribune's Rick Morrissey has eaten his own words. Literally. Watch the sports columnist take back an unflattering assessment of Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah--by, you know, really taking them back--starting about three minutes in: <embed type='application/x-shockwave-flash' salign='l' flashvars='&titleAvailable=true&playerAvailable=true&searchAvailable=false&shareFlag=N&singleURL=http://chicagotribune.vidcms.trb.com/alfresco/service/edge/content/8d6288a3-a830-4540-8dfc-e2f5f31bb985&propName=chicagotribune.com&hostURL=http://www.chicagotribune.com&swfPath=http://chicagotribune.vid.trb.com/player/&omAccount=tribglobal&omnitureServer=www.chicagotribune.com' allowscriptaccess='always' allowfullscreen='true' menu='true' name='PaperVideoTest' bgcolor='#ffffff' [...]
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I wrote yesterday about "After Fort Hood, another example of how 'citizen journalists' can't handle the truth," a Tech Crunch column that caused a firestorm over the weekend. On this morning's Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, Lehrer hosted the column's author, Paul Carr, and Noted Citizenjournophile Jeff Jarvis to [...]
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Recipients of the 2009 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards were announced this morning. ?A radio broadcast on probability told through a tale about a drifting balloon, a newspaper series on the impact of a devastating genetic disease on a family in rural Montana, and a group of gracefully written [...]
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Remember Iran's "Twitter Revolution"? Seems it may have gone the way of Moldova's. Per Valleywag's Ravi Somaiya--per, in turn, a study of Iran's access to social media conducted by the British writer and analyst Charles Leadbeater, and researcher Annika Wong: less than one percent of the Iranian population is [...]
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Those agonizing over the future of local news may take heart at the success of MinnPost.com, the online news site founded by former Minneapolis Star Tribune publisher Joel Kramer, which turned two on Sunday. The nonprofit site held a birthday bash for its members yesterday and about 175 people [...]
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Sen. Orrin Hatch, Republican from Utah, had some real zingers while talking about the recently passed House health care bill on Don Imus?s Fox Business News morning show today. Hatch, who said the bill won't pass in the Senate, delivered these one-liners, riffing on the health care theme: ?I?m [...]
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So there's not too much going on in the world right now. The Fort Hood shootings. The House health care bill. New jobs numbers. A multi-fronted war. Global warming. Yep, just your run-of-the-mill Slow News Week. So, naturally, this weekend was a fitting time for a New York Times [...]
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Nieman Lab has launched a series of essays examining the relationship between journalism and...non-governmental organizations. "NGOs and the News: Exploring a Changing Communication Landscape," a partnership between the Lab and U-Penn's Center for Global Communication Studies, will examine the increasing role of NGOs, financially and otherwise, in journalism--and the [...]
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So The Nation--whose John Nichols, along with journalism professor Robert McChesney, is writing a book on the future of news--is jumping onto the Whence Journalism bandwagon. Through, in particular, convening a group of experts (whom it refers to, with refreshing honesty, as "media insiders")--"insiders" including Nichols, Dan Rather, Jane [...]
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"In the tank." "'Jack' and 'squat.'" One of Saturday Night Live's trademarks is its ability to take political and cultural gossip, assumptions, trends, etc. and solidify them into Conventional Wisdom. This weekend, Fox-as-arm-of-the-RNC got the SNL treatment: [...]
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Here?s another reason to be wary about jumping to conclusions about the shooting at Fort Hood: Bill Sparkman. Sparkman is the part-time Census employee whose body was found near a cemetery in rural southeastern Kentucky on Sept. 12, a rope tied around his neck and the word ?Fed? scrawled [...]
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Earlier today, a gaggle of journos engaged in something that's become a right of passage for Fourth Estaters of the political-establishment variety: dining with President Obama. Today's inductees into the "Potluck With POTUS" club include, per Politico's Michael Calderone: CNN's David Gergen, Washington Post's Chris Cillizza, Newsweek's Jon Meacham [...]
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In which Jon Stewart takes on Glenn Beck: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe 11/3 Project [...]
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In response to a Kicker post I wrote yesterday evening?which warned against making assumptions about the as-yet-unknown motivations of the Fort Hood gunman sheerly by virtue of his Muslim-sounding name?I received (in addition to reactions both thoughtful and non- in the post?s comments thread) the following e-mail: Megan, 'stories' [...]
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What?s in a name? Very, very little?particularly when it comes to divining the motivations of the perpetrator of a violent crime. But that will not stop media analysts from reading into the fact that one of the shooters?and possibly the only shooter?at this afternoon?s massacre at Fort Hood was [...]
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There is in the science press a kind of gene-of-the-month club for disease cures in which scientists discover that promoting or quieting a particular gene cures this condition or that. One prominent example in recent years has been the claim of remarkable potential for a compound named resveratrol. Specifically, [...]
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As insignificant magazine charticles go, New York magazine?s Approval Matrix is fine by me. Each week the editors cobble together very short notes on culture, politics, and current events on a Cartesian graph. The X-axis ranges from Despicable to Brilliant, and the Y from Lowbrow to Highbrow. Land in [...]
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Today?s New York Times: ?Democrats to Use Election to Push Agenda in Congress? Today?s Politico: ?Election result: Red-state Dems worried, rethink agenda? [...]
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More from the 'The River of News Is Upon Us' department: Talking Points Memo has rolled out "TPM NewsStream," an auto-updating feature that publishes, Josh Marshall says, the "best of TPM." The feature mimics Twitter's architecture--not only in its composition of a vertical "stream" of news items, but also [...]
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a press conference in Cambridge, MA yesterday, and Nieman Lab's Zach Seward was on-hand to record the results. On Google's definition of 'bloggers': ...a blog that's associated with a major, legitimate organization ? of which, I think, the majority, if not everyone, in the [...]
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Behold, the San Francisco Panorama--aka McSweeney's issue #33, aka the eleven-year-old literary magazine's packaging of its content as a Bay Area broadsheet. Part ironic commentary and part pure fun, the fauxpaper is also, per McSweeney's editors, a kind of "homage to an institution that they feel, contrary to conventional [...]
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His name is Cord Jefferson. His column is called, wittily, "et alS." None of that is a joke. [...]
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One of the luxuries of the Web is seeing an idea you've written about emended and expanded by another writer. Over at Reinventing the Newsroom, Jason Fry provides just that, discussing my thoughts on Twitter lists and the tension they (may) foster between individuality and 'identity': My tweets are [...]
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The Society of Professional Journalists has just put out a press release announcing their backing (with some reservations) of the shield law compromise worked out last week between the White House and the bill?s prime Senate sponsors. From the statement: Although SPJ does not believe S. 448 is a [...]
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Talking Points Memo rakes the media's muck yet again. This time, Marshall's marshals over at TPMuckraker investigate an "Executive Forum," to take place in early December, for journalists, lawmakers, and--wait for it--lobbyists. The event will be hosted by Newsweek magazine (owner: The Washington Post Company) and--wait for it--the American [...]
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Colby Cosh, the Menckenesque commentator, blogger, and columnist for Canada's National Post, has a nice--and Meckenesque--piece on the subject of crowdsourcing. "The citizen news network, the postmodern panopticon, is still spreading and growing more powerful," Cosh writes. The last holdouts are acquiring camera phones and self-contained digital cameras; data [...]
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Yesterday the Daily Beast posted drafts of victory/concession night speeches Sarah Palin had intended to deliver one year ago?had she not been prohibited from doing so by John McCain?s staff. It?s pretty predictable stuff, but there?s one thing I didn?t see anyone mention yesterday, amid all the buzz leading [...]
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Back in October, Twitter announced a translation project, soliciting the help of users to expand Twitter by making the site available in other languages. Less than a month later, the company has launched a Spanish-language edition. [...]
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So the guys responsible for such crowd-pleasing, cutting-edge New York Times Web features as The Guantanamo Docket, Health Care Conversations, Represent, and the resurrected-last-night Word Train feature...will no longer be just guys. Yep: the paper's acclaimed, ten-person-strong interactive news technologies team has finally hired itself a Lady. ... [...]
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Off-year election day--otherwise known as The Day in Which the American Public, Led by Its Media, Engages in Political Hyperbole of Several Varieties--is upon us! In celebration of a holiday as nationally meaningful as Arbor Day and as revealing as Mardi Gras, The Awl has a helpful guide to [...]
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Here is a quote provided by Bill Clinton, discussing the vagaries of Life After Being President during a press conference in Istanbul, Turkey: "It's good that we have a (term) limit. Otherwise I would have stayed until I was carried away in a coffin. Or defeated in an election. [...]
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The Los Angeles Times provoked gasps last April when it took the once-controversial idea of front page advertising one misstep further. The financially strapped paper ran an ad thinly disguised as a news story in the body of its front page?an ?innovative? concept it had pitched to NBC for [...]
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A few further thoughts re: my Campaign Desk post on how the media strains for meaning in off-year elections: First, the fact that a local outcome doesn?t hold great significance for divining the national mood doesn?t mean it?s not important?or even that it?s not important nationally. A Detroit Free [...]
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The Economist's Democracy in America blog chats up Dan Froomkin about White House coverage, the perils of attempted objectivity, and working at an "internet newspaper" that often acts more like an interactive supermarket tabloid: DIA: Much of Huffington Post?s traffic is driven by gossipy stories about sex and entertainment. [...]
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In our New Media Landscape, populated as it is by species struggling for survival, the most endangered species of all is that hearty, adaptable, and yet increasingly rare animal know as ?reporting.? We hear the refrain over and over again: It?s not commentary that?s in trouble, it?s reporting. What [...]
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A little less than two weeks ago, I wrote a post noting the press?s love for stories about how the president is bungling his approach to Congress: whether he is, at a given moment, adopting an assertive public posture or a low-key approach, some quote machine will be at [...]
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Meet Yul Kwon, new deputy chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau. Kwon is immensely qualified for this role: not only does he come to the FCC be-pedigreed with degrees from Stanford and Yale Law; he has also worked as an aide to Joe Lieberman. [...]
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For those who have, like us, been waiting with bated breath for the announcement of the finalists in the Contest of Our Time?the WaPo?s marvelously well-advised Star Search-for-bloviators that is ?America?s Next Great Pundit? competition--well, you can now, finally, exhale. That's right, America: The finalists have been announced!... [...]
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In his Public Editor column today, Clark Hoyt reports on the surprising-but-also-unsurprising--and either way media-moment-symbolizing--staff reductions that The New York Times is about to endure: Though The Times retains the largest newsroom of any American paper?1,250 reporters, photographers, editors, columnists, graphic artists, Web producers, videographers and more?it is about [...]
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At Slate, Jack Shafer simultaneously boosts his curmudgeonly critic credentials and pays a compliment to the new leader of Allbritton Communications? planned local news site in D.C.: Who doesn't adore Jim Brady, the former executive editor of the Washingtonpost.com? Even I like him, and I don't like anybody. More [...]
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Back in January, on the occasion of its launch, we wrote about GlobalPost, the Boston-based international news startup--and about the high expectations (and, more to the point, high hopes) associated with it. As we noted then: GlobalPost is an effort whose nascent days have been, and will no doubt [...]
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As I noted in a Wednesday column, a number of reporters have recently had to revisit the most fundamental question about climate change: Is the Earth actually warming up. The book SuperFreakonomics and an article by the BBC have received widespread criticism for arguing that there is evidence we [...]
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The Associated Press is reporting that Senator Chuck Schumer, a prime sponsor of the Free Flow of Information Act (commonly known as the shield bill) has reached a deal with the White House on one of the bill?s most difficult sticking points: under what circumstances, and how, would the [...]
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Yay! Jon Stewart takes on the hyperbolic media treatment of World War III The White House War Against Fox News. And it is, unsurprisingly, brilliant. (Sample: "The truth is, the news side of Fox and the opinion side of Fox News are like the McDLT. The hot side stays [...]
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Talking Points Memo, pioneer in online news, takes yet another step on the pebble-paved path toward TraditionalMediaesqueWashingtonCoverage. Politico's Michael Calderone reports: The White House released November's intown pool schedule for media outlets that cover the president this morning, and for the first time, Talking Points Memo is on the [...]
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Um. Wow. Below, the Project for Excellence in Journalism's New Media Index for the week of October 19-23--the week, nb, following the discovery that The Flight of Balloon Boy was, indeed, a hoax. A ploy for attention. For media attention. Anyhow: [...]
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If it's not bad enough that our celebrity-obsessed culture means the ascendancy of the US Weekly's of the world at the expense of serious journalism, (Y'know, that iron core of news, currently grappling with an existential crisis), now celebrities want to be journalists, too. And because they're celebrities, they [...]
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Steven Waldman, veteran journalist and co-founder of Beliefnet, has been tapped by the FCC to lead an agency-wide initiative designed "to assess the state of media in these challenging economic times and make recommendations designed to ensure a vibrant media landscape." Waldman announced the move to his readers in [...]
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Meet Jonathan Woodlief, the fellow who is: coordinating nearly a million and a half online protesters; leading one of the Web's fastest-growing viral movements, a revolt against recent changes made to Facebook's News Need feature; administering the CHANGE FACEBOOK BACK TO NORMAL!! group on the social networking site, adding [...]
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A Politico story that was briefly leading the site this evening addresses one of the not-so-pressing political issues of the day: Joe Biden?s polling numbers, which are in a sharp and apparently mysterious decline. It?s one of those stories that undercuts its own significance as it proceeds: ?There isn?t [...]
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This week the Washington Monthly, the venerable journal of politics and ideas, turns forty. To celebrate, they?ve put out a retrospective issue, including a fun ?Bullseyes and Blunders? section, where they rate their successes and failures in calling the future. In the black-eye section: Gregg Easterbrook?s 1983 prediction that [...]
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Gerald Posner of The Daily Beast has the companion piece to The New York Times?s story about the CIA?s relationship with Ahmed Wali Karzai?interviews with both Ahmed and Mahmoud Karzai, Hamid?s other brother, who deny the NYT?s account. Readers can decide for themselves who to believe; like Posner, I [...]
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Poynter has a story today about one bright spot on the recent dismal Audit Bureau of Circulations report: The Times-Picayune. The New Orleans paper and its Web site had a combined 7 percent increase in its print and online audience. Nola.com's director of content, James O'Byrne, attributes the steady [...]
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If you?re at all interested in the war in Afghanistan, today?s New York Times is chock-full of must-reads. In addition to the blockbuster lead story reporting that Ahmed Wali Karzai?the brother of President Hamid Karzai and a suspected player in the drug trade?has been receiving payments from the CIA [...]
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With news yesterday that the Chicago Sun-Times has been rescued by a group of local businessmen, keeping Chicago a two-newspaper town, we thought we'd see how the two competitors play the big news out of Chicago today; the arrest of two men in a terror plot to attack the [...]
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My, how times do change. In a blatant ploy for attention declaration of his disapproval of the health care reform plans currently on the table, Joe Lieberman has announced that he will vote against a reform bill that contains a public option--even with an opt-out provision for individual states--and [...]
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If you?ve been online today you?ve probably already seen the link, but Karen DeYoung?s Washington Post profile of Matthew Hoh, a State Department officer who recently became the first U.S. official to resign over the war in Afghanistan, is really worth a read?not just for what Hoh has to [...]
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Take a look at this paragraph. It comes in the middle of today's otherwise very by-the-books Washington Post report from ex-President Bush's debut appearance as a motivational speaker: Many people interviewed afterward said they liked Bush, perhaps even because he wasn't the best speaker of the day. He could [...]
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With news that the bankruptcy-protected Chicago Sun-Times has been sold to a group of local businessmen for $26.5 million, keeping Chicago a two-newspaper town, it might be interesting to note exactly who those businessmen are. The competition over at the Chicago Tribune (also under bankruptcy protection) does a bang-up [...]
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