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The Kicker — November 6, 2012 05:30 PM
Nor’easter blows Newsday’s paywall down
Long Island and Westchester/Rockland editions providing free access
The paywall at Newsday — both its Long Island and Westchester/Rockland versions — has come down … for now. According to spokesperson Lauren Andrich, the paywall was taken down Monday to help its coverage areas, many still recovering from Hurricane Sandy, prepare for Wednesday’s predicted Nor’easter.
Newsday may have removed its paywall during Sandy, but the paper restored it too...
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Behind the News — November 6, 2012 10:35 AM
Stories I’d like to see
Keeping tabs on the Red Cross; Romney’s transition plans; Obama’s next book
In his weekly “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.
Red Cross donations: Remember September 11:
I hope we soon see a lot of coverage of how the Red Cross is using its Hurricane Sandy contributions.
For everyone...
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Between the Spreadsheets — November 2, 2012 11:47 AM
It’s about the info, not the outlet
Google's mapped information on Sandy topped anything news organizations offered
Data journalism and information visualization is a burgeoning field. Every week, Between the Spreadsheets will analyze, interrogate, and explore emerging work in this area. Between the Spreadsheets is brought to you by CJR and Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
As Hurricane Sandy devastated the eastern seaboard, news outlets, networks, and Twitter flooded the airwaves with information. For those able...
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The Kicker — November 1, 2012 06:45 PM
Pass the #popcorn
Hurricane Sandy edition
According to a recent Pew study, 15 percent of adults online use Twitter — 8 percent daily. I’m pretty sure most of that 8 percent are journalists. Journalists love Twitter, whether using it for writing, conversation, or fighting. And I love to watch—and judge—the sparring.
If you see a #JournoTweetFight that you think merits inclusion, please give me a heads...
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#Realtalk — November 1, 2012 11:15 AM
Breaking up and moving on
When to take your pitch elsewhere, when to quit altogether, and how to search for out-of-state jobs
I'm sure you've had the frustrating experience of reading your story for the first time in print and discovering new changes you never approved with your byline attached. How should I approach editors who have inappropriately altered my voice or message in a piece? And when should I say enough is enough? -Anne Bartholomew
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Behind the News — November 1, 2012 06:50 AM
Embeddable Sandy content
Google and WNYC created free, shareable media
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 expect the next updates. WNYC provides the html code behind the content to make the tracker embeddable on other sites. That...
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Darts and Laurels — November 1, 2012 12:00 AM
Darts and Laurels
Women's work
When The New York Times made Buffalo News editor Margaret Sullivan its new public editor in September, there seemed to be a general consensus that she couldn’t do much worse than outgoing Arthur Brisbane, lover of truth vigilantism and hater of the Internet. So far, she’s done everything she promised. Along with the bimonthly print column, she updates the...
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Behind the News — October 30, 2012 11:05 AM
Stories I’d like to see
Hurricanes and utilities, keeping Time, and delving into the bureaucracy
In his weekly “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. Hurricanes and the utilities
Memo to local newspaper editors and television news producers in today’s hurricane zone: Assuming your community loses its power, find out which of...
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Behind the News — October 29, 2012 05:24 PM
Newsrooms’ digital Sandy coverage
Outlets are pulling out all the stops
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 told Poynter that the paywall would not be reinstated until the weather emergency is over. The Wall Street Journal and Newsday have...
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The Kicker — October 29, 2012 04:25 PM
The Frankenstorm exception
Will lowered paywalls mean new customers?
At a Poynter ethics forum last week, Pew’s Tom Rosenstiel noted that one source of print journalism’s ongoing woes is focusing on supposedly dwindling audiences rather than dwindling dollars.
“The real crisis facing print journalism in particular is really more a revenue crisis than an audience crisis,” he said.
Ahead of Hurricane Sandy’s landfall in the tri-state area, The...
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Minority Reports — October 29, 2012 06:50 AM
Jenny McCarthy as a Sun-Times columnist?
Science writers are skeptical, though McCarthy won't promote a fake link between vaccines and autism there
In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities.
The Chicago Sun-Times created controversy this month by hiring Jenny McCarthy—an actress-model, author, and activist who promotes the discredited idea that vaccines cause autism—to blog online five days a week and write a weekly print advice column about sex, love, dating, and parenting. (The USA...
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Behind the News — October 26, 2012 03:00 PM
CNN says women vote with their hormones
The Twitterverse goes mental
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 women’s voting choices are affected by their ovulation cycles. For a time, the story was featured on the CNN homepage....
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Behind the News — October 26, 2012 02:50 PM
Appending Larry
Google's "premature release" spins off another viral meme — and an ethical question
A recent Reuters article on Google's prematurely released earnings report noted that a Twitter parody account was created to mock the "PENDING LARRY QUOTE" in the company’s unfinished document: "[W]ithin minutes, though, an unknown prankster set up a "PendingLarry" Twitter feed to hypothesize what the missing quote might be. Among the highlights: 'Man, our privacy was WAY violated today.'"
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Behind the News — October 26, 2012 02:50 PM
The universality of health reporting
Lessons from five European journalists
Last week 112 journalists and academics from 12 countries met in Athens to talk about health reporting—the nitty-gritty of engaging audiences, building networks of honest sources, dealing with the conflicts of interest that are so pervasive in the medical business, and, of course, following the money.
In the US, we like to say all healthcare, like all politics, is local....
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Swing States Project — October 26, 2012 01:40 PM
The Ad Wars: a laurel to the Sunlight Foundation
Report brings scrutiny to new political ad database
In an important victory for transparency advocates, the Federal Communications Commission recently began requiring broadcasters to post the files of political ad buys online. The new system, which went into effect on Aug. 2, meant that public records of campaign ads would for the first time be available in the same place, bringing fresh hope that murky expenditures on...
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Behind the News — October 26, 2012 01:13 PM
Journalism ethics in a digital age
A Poynter conference this week provoked good discussion but presupposed an old definition of journalism
On Tuesday, in the midst of wonky Poynter conference dialogue about how to reimagine journalism ethics for a digital age, Seattle Times columnist Monica Guzman told an anecdote that nailed the angst of a changing industry.
Shortly after the Seattle Post-Intelligencer dropped its print edition, a bear got loose in Seattle, Guzman said. She and her P-I colleagues continually updated...
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The Kicker — October 26, 2012 12:45 PM
Pass the #popcorn
ICYMI: Buzzfeed's copyranter defends his right to republish
According to a recent Pew study, 15 percent of adults online use Twitter — 8 percent daily. I’m pretty sure most of that 8 percent are journalists. Journalists love Twitter, whether using it for writing, conversation, or fighting. And I love to watch—and judge—the sparring.
If you see a #JournoTweetFight that you think merits inclusion, please give me a heads...
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Behind the News — October 26, 2012 12:20 PM
The 4th Estate corrects its numbers
A widely covered infographic released on Thursday didn't quite get its facts straight
That journalism struggles with racial diversity is old news, but a study released on Thursday by The 4th Estate tried to quantify the magnitude of the problem. The organization released an infographic showing that, among the 38 most influential newspapers in the country, 93 percent of front-page articles about the 2012 election were written by white reporters. The infographic received...
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Behind the News — October 25, 2012 03:00 PM
Stories I’d like to see
New election economy, voter fraud billboards, NY skyscrapers 2.0
In his weekly “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.
Scoping out the new election economy:
No matter what you think about the court decisions, including Citizens United, that have unraveled campaign-finance restrictions, it’s clear that the resulting...
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The Kicker — October 25, 2012 12:34 PM
Imprisoned Ethiopian reporter wins a Courage in Journalism award
Reeyot Alemu, Azerbaijani reporter Khadija Ismayilova and Palestinian Asmaa al-Ghoul were honored by the International Women's Media Foundation
Imprisoned Ethiopian Columnist Reeyot Alemu was honored with a Courage in Journalism Award at a luncheon in New York on Wednesday. Alemu, 31, is serving a five-year sentence under Ethiopia's controversial anti-terrorism law for email communications she exchanged with a US-based opposition group whose members are considered terrorists by the country’s leadership.
"For EPRDF, journalists must be propaganda machines," Alemu...
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