http://www.cjr.org/ Columbia Journalism Review: The future of media is here en Copyright 2013 Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:00 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss By Jane McManus Like everyone else this week, I was transfixed by the tragedy in Moore, Oklahoma. The devastation was quick and, in some neighborhoods, complete. I streamed local coverage of the event from KFOR and over the course of Monday afternoon noticed a narrative was developing. News outlets were looking for good, positive stories to report just a few hours after the... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/silver_linings_newscasts.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/silver_linings_newscasts.php Behind the News Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:00 -0500 By Deirdre Dlugoleski In a 2011 court case in Diyarbakır, Turkey, a student is on trial for membership in a terrorist organization. The case is legally open to the public, but no journalists are present in the small, cramped courtroom. After several hours, one of the police officers perusing his Twitter account outside discovers that someone is tweeting updates from the trial. He... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/turkey_counter_media.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/turkey_counter_media.php Behind the News Mon, 20 May 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Steven Brill In his "Stories I'd like to see" column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media attention. This article was originally published on Reuters.com. 1. The commencement speech market: It's my guess that the most sought-after commencement speaker this season is former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. How many invites did she... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/stories_id_like_to_see_13.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/stories_id_like_to_see_13.php Behind the News Tue, 14 May 2013 11:00:00 -0500 By Sara Morrison Needless to say, the kidnapping case in Cleveland has garnered a ton of media attention now that the three women -- Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michele Knight -- have been recovered from the house in which they were kept prisoner for a decade. But before it became a national story, Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Regina Brett was on... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/regina_brett_amanda_berry.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/regina_brett_amanda_berry.php Behind the News Wed, 08 May 2013 17:00:00 -0500 By Steven Brill In his "Stories I'd Like to See" column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media attention. This article was originally published on Reuters.com. 1. Looking at 'Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo': In his 2006 annual report to shareholders , Warren Buffett had this to say about compensation consultants: Too often, executive... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/stories_id_like_to_see_12.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/stories_id_like_to_see_12.php Behind the News Tue, 07 May 2013 11:49:00 -0500 By Curtis Brainard After 162 days with no information about his whereabouts, GlobalPost announced Friday that James Foley, an American journalist who went missing on November 22 in Syria, is almost certainly being held by the Syrian government in a detention center near the capital city of Damascus. Surrounded by Foley's family during a speech in Boston marking World Press Freedom... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/james_foley_globalpost_syria_k.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/james_foley_globalpost_syria_k.php Behind the News Fri, 03 May 2013 18:00:35 -0500 By Lawrence Pintak Indonesia remains a nation in flux. So, too, its journalism. Fifteen years after the country's long-time strongman and president, Suharto, was overthrown and press restrictions were eased, Indonesian journalists continue to face a host of pressures: The pay is still lousy, the challenges still complex, the physical dangers still real. But there are encouraging recent... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/inside_the_indonesian_newsroom.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/inside_the_indonesian_newsroom.php Behind the News Fri, 03 May 2013 14:52:10 -0500 By Vivian Salama Like many things in Egypt these days, the fight to save the Egypt Independent from termination went viral almost instantly. A cry for help by the newspaper's editors earlier this year cited "the current economic crisis" as reason for the looming closure of the country's most highly respected English-language newspaper, as well as the "political limitations manifested in rising... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/egypt_independent_closes.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/egypt_independent_closes.php Behind the News Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:50:00 -0500 By Trevor Bach James Foley was supposed to arrive by 4. It was Thanksgiving, and Foley, a freelance journalist covering the war in Syria for GlobalPost and Agence France-Presse, was going to meet his friend Nicole Tung, another journalist, in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli to catch up and rest for a couple days. But Foley never showed. "I was starting to... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/journos_and_kidnapping.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/journos_and_kidnapping.php Behind the News Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:00:00 -0500 By Kira Goldenberg Longtime Hartford Courant reporter Bill Leukhardt lives in Danbury, the town adjacent to Newtown, CT. So on December 14, when it became clear that something was amiss at a school there, his editors gave him the address on the scanner asked him to look into it. "No one said Sandy Hook school--I had no idea," said Leukhardt (who, full disclosure,... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/after_sandy_hook.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/after_sandy_hook.php Behind the News Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:50:00 -0500 By Sara Morrison It's been a rough month and a half for Matthew Keys. In March, Reuters's now-former deputy social media editor was indicted by the US Justice Department, accused of sharing a past employer's network information with hackers. Reuters suspended him (with pay) shortly thereafter, and Keys, 26, spent the last month tweeting news much like he did before the suspension,... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/exit_interview_matthew_keys.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/exit_interview_matthew_keys.php Behind the News Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:35:00 -0500 By Steven Brill In his "Stories I'd Like to See" column, journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill spotlights topics that, in his opinion, have received insufficient media attention. This article was originally published on Reuters.com. 1. Does awful luck always have to mean a lawsuit? As Alison Frankel reported in her Thomson Reuters litigation column, last week a federal judge in Colorado... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/stories_id_like_to_see_11.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/stories_id_like_to_see_11.php Behind the News Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:10:00 -0500 By Bill Grueskin The press services standardize the main events; it is only once in a while that a great scoop is made. --Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion, 1922 One of the hottest newspaper wars in the 1990s took place in Broward County, FL, where the fast-growing Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale faced relentless competition from The Miami Herald. As the... http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/in_defense_of_scoops.php http://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/in_defense_of_scoops.php United States Project Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:37:28 -0500 By Sara Morrison Since 2007, the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR), a 25-year-old professional networking group, has been trying to figure out how public broadcast stations can transition into creating innovative and diverse forms of public media, keeping the services its core audiences have come to expect (news and shows like "All Things Considered," for example) while also experimenting with ways... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/localore.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/localore.php Behind the News Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:50:59 -0500 By David Riedel At 8:52am today, the official Boston Police Twitter feed posted this message: "#MediaAlert: WARNING: Do Not Compromise Officer Safety by Broadcasting Tactical Positions of Homes Being Searched." The Boston cops had just come through a deadly night in which they had engaged in a gunfight with the two suspects in Monday's Boston Marathon bombings. One suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev,... http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/boston_cops_dont_give_away_our.php http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/boston_cops_dont_give_away_our.php Behind the News Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:19:46 -0500