Author Archive
-
The Kicker
WaPo on “Palin’s Appearance”
June 9, 2009 11:41 AMIs it just us (with LipstickOnAPigGate, WardrobeGate, and all still fresh in our heads) or do you, too, think that some Washington Post copy editor might be getting a talking to right now for this, at first... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
Blogger Raising Money For Somali Reporter “Targeted For Assassination”
June 9, 2009 11:18 AMTwo years ago, freelance war reporter and warisboring blogger David Axe wrote a piece for CJR about the dangers of being a journalist in Somalia (CPJ calls it "the most dangerous country in Africa to work as a... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
Bronstein: In “Obama-Press Dance… We’re The Girl”
June 9, 2009 09:37 AMArguing that journalists have caught the vapors over President Obama and gone faint with their coverage, Phil Bronstein attempts at sfgate.com to provide the smelling salts, challenging reporters to "keep a closer eye on the substance thing," what with... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
A “Great Debate” on CNN
June 8, 2009 04:39 PMAndrew Sullivan was nearly as amused/satisfied by "Michael Ware's contempt for the corny CNN set-up" in the following recent "Great Debate" segment from CNN's Campbell Brown show -- which pitted Ware, a CNN international correspondent who reported for years... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
NPR: “Hooking Up Is Becoming a Trend…”
June 8, 2009 02:00 PM..."among young people who have entered the workaday world." So reports NPR's Brenda Wilson today, at length (nearly nine minutes). (Maybe NPR, too, needs a "social media editor" to help its reporters "use social tools to...track trends"... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
Poniewozik Ponders: “Who Pays For Journalism?”
June 8, 2009 01:25 PMFrom Time's TV critic, James Poniewozik (I, for one, appreciate when he shifts gears from the late night talk show wars and last night's I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! -- his beat, all -- to ponder... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
From Boy’s Lips To Murdoch’s Ears
June 8, 2009 12:51 PMToday in Desperately Seeking The Future of News-type coverage: The Guardian chats with a 13- year-old boy in the UK who "tries to make sure all of his homework is done" before working on his six-month-old "online news project... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
New Editor-in-Chief “Appointed” For Abu Dhabi’s National
June 8, 2009 12:39 PMPer The Financial Times: The National newspaper, which is owned by the Abu Dhabi government, on Monday appointed a new editor-in-chief, barely a year after its high-profile launch. The newspaper said that Hassan Fattah is to replace... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
“Dilemma Reporters Face”
June 8, 2009 11:50 AMThe Deputy Press Secretary for the Bush Administration, Tony Fratto, recently slammed the White House press corps for, he said, credulously reporting the Obama adminstration's "claims of 'jobs saved' attributed to the stimulus bill," calling the claims a "breathtaking... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
Ling, Lee Convicted in Pyongyang
June 8, 2009 10:18 AMCurrent TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee, held in North Korea since March on vague charges, received "harsher sentences than many outsider expected:" reportedly twelve years of "reform through labor." The media wonder: Will... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
“Tanning Myself By The Gleam of Fareed Zakaria’s Teeth…”
June 8, 2009 09:57 AM...and more from Stephen Colbert on "Why I Took This Crummy Job" (guest-editing Newsweek.) Colbert explains his Iraq-centric cover: I know what you're thinking: "Isn't the Iraq War over?" That's what I thought, too. I hadn't seen it in... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
Upcoming McSweeney’s Will Be “Beautiful, Luxurious” “Newspaper Prototype”
June 3, 2009 01:36 PMDave Eggers, novelist and McSweeney's editor, tells SpliceToday's John Lingan (via mass email): Pretty soon, on the McSweeney’s website, we’ll be showing some of our work on this upcoming issue, which will be in newspaper form. The... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
President Tunes Out TV Pundits
June 3, 2009 12:29 PMPresident Obama during last night's BriWi special (h/t, TVNewser): "I don't find most of the cable chatter persuasive." (Imagine if he'd said otherwise? Actually, my mind has been changed numerous times by both Chris Matthews and Pat Buchanan.... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
A Police Chase Not Covered Live On Cable…
June 3, 2009 12:09 PM... but Twittered-- with siren! -- by Drudge. Dateline, Little Valley, NY: The driver of a horse and buggy led Cattaraugus County sheriff’s deputies on a three-mile pursuit through fields and woods early Monday morning, eventually abandoning the... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
From One “Ultimate Thinking Person” to Another
June 3, 2009 11:11 AMNewsweek's Jon Meacham (a.k.a, "The Utimate Thinking Person") has, for the first time in the magazine's history, brought on a guest editor. Stephen Colbert is editing the June 8 issue of the magazine -- or, as the Observer <a... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
Talking Tiananmen “Tank Man”
June 3, 2009 10:11 AMAt Lens, the New York Times's photo blog, four photojournalists recall covering Tiananmen Square in June 1989 (h/t, NiemanLab). Fearing his work would be confiscated, Newsweek's Charlie Cole put the roll of film on which he'd captured his... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
What Your Own Cable Channel’s For
June 2, 2009 04:49 PMAny guesses as to which NBC show has been referenced more often over the past 24 hours on MSNBC (if you've been watching, you've likely lost count of mentions of both): Brian Williams's Inside the Obama White House (airing tonight... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
Squirrelly Fox
June 2, 2009 01:49 PMIf you had to guess on which cable news channel this morning I learned of the story about, in the words of one chyron, "PATRIOT SQUIRRELS," you'd say....? Those of you who guessed Fox News: you are correct! The... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
More Thoughts On Saving Newspapers…
June 2, 2009 01:36 PM...from the former and current editors of Vanity Fair. (And, coincidentally, both accounts involve London's The Daily Telegraph!) Tina Brown, quoted in The Telegraph: [Brown] accepts that in this time of change, web-based journalism may lack the... Continue reading
-
The Kicker
Today In CBS News: Ustream, PU
June 2, 2009 10:56 AMPer the New York Times: Seeking a younger audience more accustomed to watching the news on the Internet than on television, CBS News said Monday that it had joined with a live video Web site to simulcast its newscasts... Continue reading
—advertisement—
Desks
The Audit Business
- The impossibility of tablet-native journalism Why Murdoch’s The Daily didn’t make it
- Anti-paywall dead-enders Why worry about evidence when you can argue against straw men?
The Observatory Science
- Dull news from Doha UN climate summit a ho-hum affair for the press
- Highway to the danger zone Following Sandy, HuffPo and NYT dig into the folly of coastal development
Campaign Desk Politics & Policy
- NBC News sets good example for Medicare reporting People perspective leads to clear explanation of impact of proposed changes
- In Pennsylvania, a niche site with wide reach PoliticsPA drives political conversation in Keystone State
Behind the News The Media
Blog
The Kicker last updated: Mon 11:37 AM
- Farewell to The Daily
- Must-reads of the week
- The media news cycle is bananas
- Pass the #popcorn
- Must-reads of the week
The Future of Media
News Startups Guide last updated: Thu 10:24 AM
- TRVL A free iPad travel magazine
- TheDigitel A small chain of local news sites/ aggregators in South Carolina
