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1. Behind the News

   Letter from a Londoner

   November 15, 2012 03:00 PM

   This week, the BBC celebrates its 90th birthday. As birthdays go, it’s a rather unhappy one. In the last month, reports of scandal wracking the BBC have appeared in publications across the globe, each struggling to distill the absurdities of... Continue reading

2. The Kicker

   Two music journos plan a longform site

   November 14, 2012 11:00 AM

   Two music journalists from Los Angeles have launched a Kickstarter to fund a reader-supported, ad-free longform site. David Greenwald (Billboard, GQ) and Daniel Siegal (Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times) are behind UNCOOL, which landed on... Continue reading

3. Behind the News

   Now This News launches an app to grow its global audience

   November 9, 2012 03:00 PM

   Things have been going well for Now This News since a spate of stories in September announced that the video news service was creeping onto the scene with some impressive hires. The mobile and social-focused startup, founded... Continue reading

4. Behind the News

   Letter from a Londoner

   November 8, 2012 03:00 PM

   Journalists at The New York Times are suddenly not feeling so confident about their new chief executive. In the last month, Thompson’s judgement was called into question, because he was the director-general of the BBC when an in-house... Continue reading

5. Behind the News

   Embeddable Sandy content

   November 1, 2012 06:50 AM

   One of the most useful bits of embeddable content being passed around in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy is this Transit Tracker, created by WNYC, that shows which New York City trains and buses are running and when to... Continue reading

6. Currents

   Hard Numbers

   November 1, 2012 12:00 AM

   54 Percent of Americans who knew that General Motors’ decision to close its plant in Janesville, WI, happened before Barack Obama was president, not on his watch, as Romney supporters have charged 25 Percent... Continue reading

7. Behind the News

   Newsrooms’ digital Sandy coverage

   October 29, 2012 05:24 PM

   Several big news services have put public service ahead of profit by doing away with their paywalls for the duration of Hurricane Sandy. The New York Times allowed unlimited sitewide access from Sunday afternoon, and spokeswoman Eileen Murphy <a... Continue reading

8. Behind the News

   CNN says women vote with their hormones

   October 26, 2012 03:00 PM

   It took seven hours of Internet backlash on Wednesday night for the Internet to convince CNN that an article it published needed to be removed. The article? A piece written by CNN’s Elizabeth Landau, based on unpublished research, saying that... Continue reading

9. Behind the News

   HuffPost launches a platform for user-generated reporting

   October 25, 2012 11:00 AM

   An October 1 editorial from Arianna Huffington announced The Huffington Post’s latest development in user engagement: Firsthand. Developed using a reporting platform called Ushahidi, Firsthand invites users to contribute words, images, or video to show... Continue reading

10. The Kicker

    Pulitzer Prize Board announces three new members

    October 23, 2012 04:20 PM

    Columbia University announced today that three new members are joining the Pulitzer Prize Board. Steve Coll, who has worked at The New Yorker since 2005, the playwright Quiara Alegria Hudes, and Aminda Marques Gonzalez, an executive editor at The... Continue reading

11. Behind the News

    BBC in crisis over a shelved pedophile investigation

    October 23, 2012 11:20 AM

    When it emerged, a year after his death, that popular UK television personality Jimmy Saville may have molested hundreds of girls, his headstone was torn down and plaques placed in his honor around the country were defaced and then removed.... Continue reading

12. Behind the News

    Artists from around the world to report for new site

    October 22, 2012 06:50 AM

    A new website, Creative Time Reports, gives artists from around the world a platform for commentary and analysis on current affairs. The site, which launched on October 11, is the latest initative by Creative Time, a 40-year-old nonprofit... Continue reading

13. Behind the News

    Study shows UK newspapers are still sexist

    October 18, 2012 06:50 AM

    The UK media is still dominated by sexist stereotypes and run by male journalists, according to a front page story in the Guardian on Monday. Using figures from a new study released by Women In Journalism, the... Continue reading

14. Behind the News

    CMJ hosts a panel on ‘Music Journalism Exploded’

    October 16, 2012 03:50 PM

    Every October, New York City welcomes a circus of music industry professionals for a week of conferences, showcases, and parties called the CMJ Music Marathon. The event opened with a panel on music journalism. “Music journalism has exploded... Continue reading

15. Behind the News

    Santa Barbara is getting a nonprofit investigative newsroom

    October 16, 2012 06:50 AM

    A few years ago, a small team of journalists based in Santa Barbara, CA, starting sharing ideas on how address a gap in investigative coverage in their hometown. Now that gap is about to be filled thanks to a two-year,... Continue reading

16. Behind the News

    MSN.com launches news service

    October 15, 2012 11:00 AM

    It’s only three months since Microsoft sold its stake in MSNBC.com, the news site it produced for 16 years in partnership with NBC, but the computing giant has already announced that it will launch a news service called MSN News... Continue reading

17. Behind the News

    LinkedIn launches a new blogging platform

    October 12, 2012 11:00 AM

    LinkedIn has expanded beyond its roots as a professional connections network to include a blogging platform for 150 influential thinkers, ranging from Barack Obama to Arianna Huffington, Mashable’s Pete Cashmore, and Richard Branson, the founder of the Virgin Group.... Continue reading

18. Behind the News

    U-T San Diego CEO accused of threatening city official over vote

    October 9, 2012 02:39 PM

    This article has been changed to clarify that an August 9 email was first obtained by KPBS/Investigative NewSource. The investigative news site Voice Of San Diego has raised ethical concerns about the CEO of the city’s major daily newspaper, who... Continue reading

19. Darts and Laurels

    Darts and Laurels

    October 8, 2012 11:00 AM

    The Daily Caller drew some odd conclusions from a June survey of physicians, when it published a report with the headline: “83 percent of doctors have considered quitting over Obamacare.” In fact, the survey referenced... Continue reading

20. Behind the News

    Social media fails the ‘47 percent’ video taper

    October 4, 2012 06:50 AM

    When Mother Jones premiered the now-infamous 47 percent video on September 17, it received two million views in 24 hours and rapidly changed the discourse surrounding the campaign. The next morning, some outlets were already asking, “Is... Continue reading

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