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  Columbia Journalism Review

  17 May 2013 | 12:50 pm

  Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and other miscellany) on the Internet, here are your can’t-miss must-reads of the past week: The completist guide to Star Trek -- Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise Dear Twitter...

• Are You an Unemployed Journalism Grad? Start Singing!

  College Media Matters

  Dan

  18 May 2013 | 12:19 pm

  An unemployed Spaniard twentysomething with a journalism degree and no job has gone viral for singing– yes, singing– about his credentials on the subway. – As The Huffington Post shares, “While a friend filmed, Enzo Vizcaino strummed on a ukulele and serenaded straphangers on the Barcelona Metro. . . . Fortunately, after the video was posted on YouTube and shared widely on social media, the job offers flooded in.” – Check out the video of his performance.  His song is in Spanish, so I’ve included a translation of most of the lyrics below. –…

• Pew: Why People Are Leaving News Organizations

  Joe Gullo

  Joe Gullo

  14 May 2013 | 4:28 pm

  The reason some people leave news organizations is not all that surprising . According to Pew Research Center: “Nearly one-third of Americans abandoned a particular news outlet because it no longer provides the same level of news and information.” In these tough economic times, news organizations have been forced to layoff reporters and other staff members vital to producing quality news content. Without them, there are noticeable holes and gaps in our news reporting. It’s not surprising that another reason people are leaving news organizations is because they are not…

• Apologies From Journalistics

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  Jeremy Porter

  24 Apr 2013 | 11:05 am

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• Anything but dull

  Columbia Journalism Review

  17 May 2013 | 2:09 pm

  Rep. Howard Coble knows the reputation of intellectual property law--that it is dull and boring. But at a Congressional hearing on Thursday, he had a message for anyone who shared that viewpoint: "Get used to it, because IP is not going away," he warned. Yesterday's hearing was the first that the Judiciary Committee held after its chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte,...

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  Columbia Journalism Review

• Anything but dull

  17 May 2013 | 2:09 pm

  Rep. Howard Coble knows the reputation of intellectual property law--that it is dull and boring. But at a Congressional hearing on Thursday, he had a message for anyone who shared that viewpoint: "Get used to it, because IP is not going away," he warned. Yesterday's hearing was the first that the Judiciary Committee held after its chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte,...

• Must-reads of the week

  17 May 2013 | 12:50 pm

  Culled from CJR’s frequently updated “Must-reads from around the Web,” our staff recommendations for the best pieces of journalism (and other miscellany) on the Internet, here are your can’t-miss must-reads of the past week: The completist guide to Star Trek -- Matt Yglesias watched every Star Trek movie and every episode of every TV show in the franchise Dear Twitter...

• Covering facts versus the 'narrative'

  17 May 2013 | 9:00 am

  The dilemma for journalists this week: How should you cover a series of proto-scandals with seemingly little in common? As far as we know, internal Obama administration edits of talking points about the Benghazi attacks, Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups for additional scrutiny, and the Justice Department's seizure of Associated Press phone records aren't part of some overarching...

• Peggy Noonan loses it on the IRS story

  17 May 2013 | 4:50 am

  We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. That's Peggy Noonan today in The Wall Street Journal, and no, she will not be laughed out of Washington. There are papers to sell and clicks to harvest. Forget about the fact that there's zero evidence of any White House involvement in the IRS flagging Tea Party groups,...

• Social minority issues in perspective

  17 May 2013 | 4:50 am

  The media covers social minorities regularly in the daily churn of news. A lot of that coverage just skims the happenings of the day--a court win, an activist group announcement, what a controversial figure said on his Twitter feed. But sometimes, reporters are allowed the time and the space to examine a social minority issue in depth, or from an...

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  Talking New Media

• Two new food magazines shows that a gulf that remains between major commercial magazine publishers and new, citizen publishers within the Apple Newsstand

  Douglas Hebbard

  17 May 2013 | 12:50 pm

  Digital publishing was supposed to be the great equalizer – at least that was the hope of citizen and small publishers. While the major magazine publishers had good printing contracts that favored high volume publishers, in digital publishing the playing field would be more level. But a look inside the Apple Newsstand shows that if you have the money to spend on native digital publishing platforms the end result will be quite different than what is seen with simple, PDF-based platforms. A look at two food magazines that have released digital editions today show the differences. Nourish is a…

• The app review team appears asleep at the switch as dubious apps continue appearing in the Newsstand

  Douglas Hebbard

  17 May 2013 | 8:15 am

  The Apple App Store, when first opened, was like the wild west – apps would routinely make it through the review process that were of dubious worth. It led, eventually, the Apple famously proclaiming stating that "We have over 250,000 apps in the App Store. We don't need any more Fart apps." But Apple is back approving Fart apps – possibly driven by a desire to remain the number one app store in existence. It won't work, it is inevitable that Google Play surpasses Apple's store simply based on the market share of smart phones. I've recently written about the some of the sharks that are…

• The Saturday Evening Post enters the Newsstand with an app build by replica edition and flipbook maker YUDU

  Douglas Hebbard

  17 May 2013 | 7:00 am

  You probably would not expect a legacy title like The Saturday Evening Post to be a leader in the digital media space. The magazine title was founded in 1821, with a dotted line link back to The Pennsylvania Gazette, first published in 1728. For years the title was a weekly, but hard times nearly killed it off and today it is published only six times a year by the Saturday Evening Post Society. And no, the magazine will not be a leader in the digital space. Today the old title launched a Newsstand app built by YUDU which specializes in flipbooks and replica edition apps. The best that can be…

• Morning Brief: Hearst launches Totally Global Media, a worldwide advertising platform; Boston Globe launches new Sunday Arts section, Travel section also re-branded

  Douglas Hebbard

  17 May 2013 | 5:55 am

  I think rather than rounding up the news this morning I'll let the companies speak for themselves, editing out some of the puffery, of course. Of all the media news, the news from Hearst I find the most interesting (see below). The launch of Totally Global Media is a reflection of the fact Hearst owns many of their international titles and are actually in a position to sell advertising globally. Many other major publishers have licensed their magazine titles to other overseas publishers and would not be able to do this. The thing is, though, that digitally, inside the Apple Newsstand, copies…

• Apple updates iTunes, changes the way app updates are seen inside iTunes and linked to store

  Douglas Hebbard

  16 May 2013 | 12:48 pm

  Apple today issues an update to a couple of its software packages including iTunes (the other big one was iMovie). The change at first appears minor in that the main difference most users will see immediately is the Songs View and new MiniPlayer. But iTunes 11.0.3 also changes the look and feel of the way apps are updated. The Update button has shifted from the bottom right of the iTunes window to a spot at the very top when the user is in their Apps area. When clicked, the apps come up that can be updated, and when the icon is clicked once a new window appears that gives details about the…

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  BuzzMachine

• Selling ads by time, not space

  Jeff Jarvis

  15 May 2013 | 5:28 pm

  I just saw some mind-bending work Chartbeat is about to release about measuring the time users spend exposed to an ad online. As background, to quote Chartbeat CEO Tony Haile: “Chartbeat monitors activity by checking in with users every second and looking for signals (mouse movement, key strokes, etc) that show they are actively consuming the content in front of them. This means they can measure how long readers spend actively engaged on a page and what parts they’re reading. Because of this Chartbeat knows how long are actively reading while an ad is in view — both for an…

• Apologies

  Jeff Jarvis

  5 May 2013 | 9:52 am

  Howard Kurtz screwed up, yes, but he also just showed an admirable example of accountability in apologizing on his CNN show Reliable Sources — saying that as a media critic he should be held to a higher standard of media trust — and then submitting to grilling by David Folkenflik of NPR and Dylan Byers of Politico. The video is here. Our first mistake in journalism is to pretend that we don’t make mistakes. That hubris has gone before many a fall. Now, of course, our imperfection is no excuse, no cover to make mistakes. But knowing they will be made, the real question is…

• Advice

  Jeff Jarvis

  3 May 2013 | 5:09 am

  I didn’t know until this week’s Howard Kurtz kerfuffles that I was even listed as a member of the advisory board to his Daily Download. I did indeed give some advice to Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn a few years ago, before the site’s launch, in a half-hour phone call as I headed to JFK one day. I can’t even remember the topic. Since then, I think I was asked one question and emailed an answer. I know nothing more about the site. The same thing happened to me at Patch. Before it launched, I was asked to come in and give some advice. I was offered remuneration to join the…

• And now the news: Here’s what we *don’t* know at this hour…

  Jeff Jarvis

  22 Apr 2013 | 5:48 am

  I often tell my students that where they see a problem, they should find the opportunity. Well, we’ve been told over and over this weekend that we had a big problem with misinformation after the Boston Marathon bombing. Breaking news, haven’t you heard, is broken. So I see an opportunity, a big journalistic opportunity. I also tell my students this: * Journalism should add value to a flow of information that can now occur without media’s mediation — verifying facts, vetting witnesses, debunking rumors, adding context, adding explanation, and most of all asking and…

• A media attack

  Jeff Jarvis

  15 Apr 2013 | 6:35 pm

  The attack on the Boston Marathon was designed to maximize media coverage: a popular event with cameras everywhere and a narrative that will be sure to follow about innocent enjoyment henceforth ruined by danger. For years, we’ve been told to fear this: an attack on a football game or at Disneyland or in a mall, someplace without fear before. Instead, it happened at the marathon. No matter who committed this crime, a precedent is now set for those that unfortunately will follow. Now every time there is a popular event with many cameras that is open — not easily contained like a…

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  Media Matters for America - Latest Items

• NBC's David Gregory Mainstreams Theory That Obama Personally Fomented IRS Focus On Conservative Groups

  19 May 2013 | 9:33 am

  From the May 19 edition of NBC's Meet the Press:Previously: The Bureaucrat Whisperer

• CNN's Crowley Adopts False Right-Wing Claim That Obama Didn't Call Benghazi A Terrorist Attack

  19 May 2013 | 9:04 am

  From the May 19 edition of CNN's State of the Union:Previously: Fox And Issa Claim There's A Difference Between An "Act Of Terror" And A Terrorist Attack Major Newspapers Whitewash Obama's "Act Of Terror" Assertion

• ABC's Jon Karl Tells CNN He Regrets Getting Benghazi Talking Points Reporting Wrong

  19 May 2013 | 8:55 am

  From the May 19 edition of CNN's Reliable Sources:Previously: What ABC And The Weekly Standard Got Wrong On The Benghazi Emails Media Observers on ABC's Jonathan Karl Benghazi Talking Points Story: "Sloppy" And "Inaccurate" ABC News & The Whitewater Tactics At The Center Of The Scandal Machine

• Fox News Sunday Anchor Chris Wallace Repeats Falsehood That "No Forces [Were] Deployed" To Benghazi

  19 May 2013 | 7:29 am

  From the May 19 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday:Previously: The Wall Street Journal Ignores Troop Deployment To Continue Benghazi Scandal Mongering Krauthammer Still Hasn't Seen This Photo Of Obama From Night Of Benghazi Attack

• National Review Caricatures Hillary Clinton As Infamous Roman Emperor

  17 May 2013 | 11:28 pm

  The cover of the June 3 issue of National Review shows a caricature of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with exaggerated features and playing a fiddle in front of what appears to be the attacked U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya engulfed by flames. The cover, as TPM noted, is likely "an allusion to the Roman Emperor Nero, who is said to have 'fiddled while Rome burned.' "  According to PBS, history has implied that Nero himself set the fire that burned Rome, so that he could rebuild the city more to his…

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  Journalistics

• Taking a Newsroom Approach to Content Marketing

  Jeremy Porter

  5 May 2013 | 10:01 pm

  Brands have never cared more about content marketing. It is the hot topic for 2013, as brands look to leverage great content to expand their reach, drive more engagement or improve their search engine rankings – to name a few. Don’t believe me? Search any content marketing related keyword in Google Trends and you’ll find a spike in conversation this year around the topic (the graph to the right is for “content marketing” news headlines). The problem facing most organizations is how to create great content that will get noticed and shared as information volumes…

• Apologies From Journalistics

  Jeremy Porter

  24 Apr 2013 | 11:05 am

  For those of you Journalistics readers who subscribe to our RSS feed, you will have noticed a random headline and spam text was accidentally sent to you yesterday. Our technical resources are looking into the problem – please know that we do not intend to start posting Viagra content on the blog anytime soon. Journalistics will remain committed to bringing you great content about public relations and journalism topics. As always, thank you for reading the blog and let us know if you have any suggestions for content. All the best! where can i buy viagra in canada Related Posts:Making the…

• Your Brand As Media

  Jeremy Porter

  17 Apr 2013 | 9:15 am

  Three years ago, using the “earned, owned and paid” organization for media strategy sounded cool. The earned-owned-paid slide in my presentations generated eyebrow raises, versus the eye rolls that are more common today. Like any good marketing catch phrases, this one has probably run its course. I’m not saying the underlying principles aren’t still incredibly relevant – in fact, they’re probably more relevant today. That’s not the point of this post though… When I first started talking about earned, owned and paid (and no, I was far from the…

• Let Me Ask You a Question

  Jeremy Porter

  5 Apr 2013 | 7:45 am

  It’s much easier to answer questions when you have time to prepare. When you’re being interviewed by a journalist, grilled on the stand a trial, or trying to convince an HR manager to put you through to the next round, it helps to know the questions in advance. More often than not, you won’t have the questions in advance… or will you? As a continuation of my series on messaging and positioning development from earlier this year, I wanted to make my next installment about how you can prepare for interview questions journalists might ask – but this advice could…

• Skills Entry-Level PR Hires Should Have

  Jeremy Porter

  2 Mar 2013 | 4:02 pm

  Three months from now, the class of 2013 will walk across the stage to collect their diplomas and immediately have a panic attack when they realize it’s time to look for that first job out of college. First, let me give you a piece of advice – you have the rest of your life to work, take the summer and explore the world if you have that luxury. That’s something I wish I had done (I started my first job the day after graduation). For those of you that need to get a job – you know, like yesterday – I thought it would be helpful to share my perspective on the skills…

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• Lord Feldman spoke to journalists who wrote swivel-eyed loons story but denies words were his

  19 May 2013 | 12:46 pm

  The Conservative Party Chairman, Lord Feldman, has privately admitted speaking to journalists who reported a senior Tory figure describing local party activists as "swivel-eyed loons", it emerged on ...

• Two Egyptian journalists critical of Mursi face trial

  19 May 2013 | 11:53 am

  journalists , talk show hosts and comedians have been charged with defamation over the last few months and activists accuse the government of using the courts to target its liberal and secular opponents. Public Prosecutor Talaat Ibrahim - appointed by Mursi last November - ordered the trial ...

• Swivel-gate David Cameron goes to war with the press over swivel-eyed loons slur

  19 May 2013 | 11:01 am

  Downing Street insider Lord Feldman 'taking legal advice', as he denies calling anti-Europe anti-gay marriage Tory activists 'mad swivel-eyed ...

• Associated Press CEO says government seizure of phone records has made sources less willing to talk to reporters

  19 May 2013 | 10:23 am

  WASHINGTON - The president and CEO of The Associated Press says the government's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was "unconstitutional" and already has had a chilling effect on newsgathering.Gary Pruitt says the Justice Department's secret subpoena of reporters' phone records has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists.The Justice Department ...

• DOJ subpoenas are unconstitutional hurt press AP president says

  19 May 2013 | 10:05 am

  In this Sunday, May 19, 2013, photo provided by CBS News, Gary Pruitt, the President and CEO of the Associated Press, discusses the leak investigation that led to his reporters' phone records being subpoenaed by the Justice Department on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Pruitt says DoJ's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was "unconstitutional", ...

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• You Are Listening to The New York Times

  By HUGH MANDEVILLE

  16 May 2013 | 12:08 pm

  I created a page on youarelistening.to that reads The New York Times headlines aloud while ambient music plays in the background.

• Cool Tools: pdf2html

  By DEREK WILLIS

  9 May 2013 | 8:24 am

  Lu Wang's pdf2htmlEX project takes PDFs and converts them into HTML5 documents while preserving the layout and appearance of the original.

• Zero to Hacking in Five Months

  By ANDRE BEHRENS

  6 May 2013 | 1:01 pm

  A recent experiment reveals that kids don't need much help learning how to use a tablet — even if they don't speak English.

• Article Search API: Version 2

  By JOE FIORE

  2 May 2013 | 2:40 pm

  Version 2 of the Article Search API is now available.

• HTML5 Dev Conf Videos

  By MARCI WINDSHEIMER

  1 May 2013 | 9:26 am

  A few of the HTML5 Dev Conf talks we recently recommended are now available.

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  The Linchpen

• #bcni13 measuring the impact of journalism recap

  Greg Linch

  6 May 2013 | 9:12 pm

  Below is a round-up of materials from BarCamp News Innovation Philly 2013 discussions about measuring the impact of journalism. Thanks to Gino Canella and the Center for Public Interest Journalism for the videos! Also, check out Jim MacMillan’s roundup of posts from #bcni13. Erika Owen’s post: So you want to measure impact: BarCamp 2013 CPIJ summary video of the session Brian Abelson, Erika and I led: Full session video: Temple University journalism chair Andrew Mendelson’s ”Beyond metrics: Thinking more broadly about journalism’s impact”  talk:…

• Patterns in shells, cellular automata, knitting and music

  Greg Linch

  6 May 2013 | 7:39 pm

  Earlier tonight I read the following article (via an NYT piece about Nautilus mag): Biologists Home in on Turing Patterns: Was Alan Turing right about the mechanism behind tiger stripes? For the work that led to his 1952 paper, Turing wanted to understand the underlying mechanism that produces natural patterns. He proposed that patterns such as spots form as a result of the interactions between two chemicals that spread throughout a system much like gas atoms in a box do, with one crucial difference. Instead of diffusing evenly like a gas, the chemicals, which Turing called…

• Join us at #bcni13 to work on measuring journalism by impact

  Greg Linch

  24 Apr 2013 | 9:48 pm

  It’s April so it must be time for BCNI! Brian Abelson, Erika Owens and I will lead a session this Saturday at BarCamp News Innovation Philly 2013 (see schedule) about implementing ways measure impact in journalism. Last year I led a more general discussion about impact, which Andrew Spittle expertly documented in his notes. Springboarding from that, Wendy Warren and I did a follow-up #BCNI12 session to dive into specific, qualitative possible news metrics for success. The thinking and conversations about impact have grown and evolved in the past year, such as with a conversation…

• “How I nabbed my first job” panel highlights from 2013 SPJ region 2 conference

  Greg Linch

  21 Apr 2013 | 8:37 pm

  I participated in an SPJ region 2 conference panel in Norfolk, Va. this past Saturday. The topic: how a few recent graduates got their first jobs in journalism. Tweets from the session appear below, enjoy! [View the story "#spj2: \"How I nabbed my first job\" session" on Storify] Storified by Greg Linch· Sun, Apr 21 2013 20:32:54 NOW! Follow #GenJ #SPJ2 to find out how young journalists at @washingtonpost @progressindex @pilotnews @Wavy_News landed their first jobs.SPJ Generation J We’ll be live-tweeting from a #SPJ2 session about how to get your first journo job, which features…

• #NICAR13 conference highlights

  Greg Linch

  3 Mar 2013 | 7:10 pm

  This year’s #NICAR13 conference left my head spinning with awesome ideas and inspiration. Here are some of the best nuggets I collected. Enjoy! What was your favorite part? [View the story "#NICAR13 conference highlights" on Storify] #NICAR13 conference highlights Feb. 27-March 3 in Louisville, Ky. Storified by Greg Linch· Sun, Mar 03 2013 19:04:44 Round-ups of links and tipsheets Hey #nicar13 presenters, send us your tipsheets and presentations! http://ire.org/conferences/nicar-2013/tipsheets/IRE and NICAR Not at the year’s best computer-assisted reporting conference? @MacDiva…

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  Mediashift

• Daily Must Reads, May 17, 2013

  Julie Keck

  17 May 2013 | 4:56 am

  1. Yahoo wants to buy Tumblr. Will Facebook swoop in at the last minute? (GigaOm) 2. Bloomberg scandal raises ethics questions for new media (Huffington Post) 3. Reporters using sensors to collect data and report on it; is this ethical? (paidContent) 4. NewsRight, an ambitious attempt at licensing newspaper content, quietly folds (Poynter) 5. From Twitter to Evernote, Tumblr and Facebook: Google Glass gets more apps (memeburn) 6. Sun pay wall needs more than 300k subscribers to cover outlay, say analysts (Guardian) 7. Amazon taps NBCUniversal to bring ‘Covert Affairs,’…

• Mediatwits #80: Feds Spy on AP, Bloomberg Spies on Feds; Future for Broadcast TV, Radio?

  Mark Glaser

  17 May 2013 | 4:00 am

  Who’s snooping on whom? First came the news that Bloomberg reporters were using the company’s terminals to find out when federal officials were logging into the system. Then came the news that the Department of Justice was secretly obtaining phone records of up to 20 journalists at the AP. While both cases were not connected, they point to a blurring of boundaries in the digital age, when digital spying and cyber-security grow ever more important. Special guest Declan McCullagh of CNET joins us to talk about our lack of privacy and what we can do about it. Plus, special guest…

• Daily Must Reads, May 16, 2013

  Julie Keck

  16 May 2013 | 5:31 am

  1. U.S. Attorney General defends DOJ seizure of phone records (NYT) 2. Microsoft’s anti-Google campaign gets a boost…from Google (AllThingsD) 3. Under fire, the White House pushes to revive news media shield law (NYT) 4. Advertisers lure Vine whiz to create new 6-second ads (CNN) 5. Publisher threatens to sue blogger for $1 billion (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 6. AOL quietly sells off its industry news sites (Forbes) 7. Kevin Poulsen on creating StrongBox with Aaron Swartz (New Yorker) 8. USA Network’s dividing line with Twitter (WSJ) Subscribe to Daily Must Reads…

• E-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, May 16, 2013

  Julie Keck

  16 May 2013 | 5:28 am

  1. E-books now make up 20% of U.S. book sales (Mashable) 2. Google Play Books enables user e-books uploads, Google Drive support (Verge) 3. PBS MediaShift starts publishing e-books; First topics: cord cutting & self-publishing (paidContent) 4. Self-publishing is the worst (Salon) 5. E-books responsible for nearly $1 billion growth in trade (Digital Book World)  Subscribe to get this newsletter delivered straight to your inbox!

• Digital Public Library Raises Questions of Ownership, Permanence, Access

  Lucy Bernholz

  16 May 2013 | 4:00 am

  Why would anyone want to attend a party to celebrate the opening of a virtual repository of metadata? A better question might be — what is a virtual repository of metadata? In this case, the repository I’m talking about is the Digital Public Library of America, which launched on April 18.* Underneath its beautiful website and inviting tag line, “A Wealth of Knowledge,” the DPLA is a set of linked, accessible, digital materials from libraries, archives and museums around the country. It’s one of hundreds of such national or regional libraries launched in the last several…

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  DigidaveDigidave

• South by Southwest V2Venture Competition and CNN’s iReport Awards

  Digidave

  29 Apr 2013 | 11:50 am

  To come: A personal post on the state of things re: life, Circa, etc. But for now, two quick disclaimers/plugs. I am a judge for this year’s iReport Award hosted by CNN. Voting continues through the rest of this week. Vote here. Some of the applications were amazing. It was truly an honor (and a challenge) to be a judge. I am also an advisor to: 2013 SXSW V2Venture. Which has an entry deadline FAST APPROACHING: Friday, May 31st “Take advantage of the opportunity to showcase your emerging technology product or service in front of industry leaders by participating in the 2013 SXSW…

• The Emotional Highs and Lows of a Startup

  Digidave

  28 Dec 2012 | 5:30 am

  Circa is not my first tango with a startup. Even before Spot.Us, the startup I am perhaps still best known for, I have been part and parcel to various projects that were “starting up” even if their aim wasn’t to build a company (i.e.: conference organizing or experiments that had sunset dates like Assignment Zero). People talk all the time about the skills journalists need in the world of media entrepreneurship. I’ve written some lessons and ideas in the past. What is often left out of the conversation: The mental traits journalists need in the world of media…

• Check Out Circa

  Digidave

  15 Oct 2012 | 3:26 pm

  In April, just on the heels of leaving Spot.Us, I announced joining the team at Circa as the founding editor. Six month’s later – I’m happy to point to our new website and more importantly our new App which is available in the Apple App Store (If you like the App – feel free to give it a review!). You can like us on Facebook, Follow us on Twitter – the whole shebang. With the obligatory “check out my new thing” link out of the way – let’s get to the more interesting ideas, lessons, etc. For the “journalistic so what” of Circa…

• Your Ticket to SXSW for Free – And a Stage in Front of VC’s

  Digidave

  1 Oct 2012 | 8:21 pm

  It is that time of year again when folks start thinking about SXSW. Well…. I suppose that is all year round. In any case: I’m doing my part once again as an advisor to the Fifth Annual SXSW Accelerator and spreading the word about your chance not only to get free SXSW tickets – but a chance to pitch your media related startup to known industry leaders and even some VC’s/Angels. There is value gained in every pitch. The more “real” the pitch – the more one gains in experience, feedback and opportunities. Well – it doesn’t get much more…

• Hooray for Homicide Watch!

  Digidave

  10 Sep 2012 | 9:27 pm

  There was a lot of buzz/talk around Homicide Watch and their Kickstarter campaign. I am not surprised that they reached their goal or the great support they got from amazing folks. This post is not about getting you to donate (although you should while time is left). In fact, I wanted to wait until after they reached their goal to post. This post is about what their Kickstarter represented – for me at least. And I hope it signals something similar to others. First two disclaimers 1. I have a bias for the Amico’s in general: Chris Amico was actually the second reporter ever to…

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  Newspaper Death Watch

• A Citizen Journalism Experiment Goes Off the Rails

  paulgillin

  24 Apr 2013 | 7:09 am

  Police Roam MA Suburb In Search Of Boston Bombers (Photo: Talk Radio News Service) Those who fear that crowdsourcing may soon make professional journalists obsolete should take a look at some of the links below related to an amateur sleuthing experiment on the popular Reddit social news site that went horribly awry last week. The goal was commendable enough. A “subreddit” was set up to enlist the members of this massive community (14 million monthly visitors by one report) in the hunt for suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. Participants were told not to name names and to focus their…

• Newspaper Reporter Ranked Worst Job in U.S.

  paulgillin

  23 Apr 2013 | 4:49 am

  Citing newspaper closures, high stress and low pay, CareerCast has rated newspaper reporter as the worst job in the nation, behind lumberjack, oil rig worker and meter reader. The ratings, which the jobs portal has published annually since 1988, factor in criteria like income, growth opportunity, environmental factors, stress and physical demands in ranking 200 jobs annually. Newspaper reporter was ranked #126 in the first published report 25 years ago. However, the last decade has seen ad revenues shrink 60% and reporting staffs dwindle by 30%. At the same time, deadlines have become…

• Playing Defense

  paulgillin

  13 Apr 2013 | 7:31 am

  In a dying industry, the sensible thing to do is to maximize your revenues before you die. Paywalls might well make money for newspapers. But that doesn’t mean that newspapers aren’t dying. Quite the opposite. –Felix Salmon, Reuters That quote, which we first saw in this Mathew Ingram piece on paidContent, gave us new insight on why we dislike paywalls so much. Yes, the newspaper industry seems to be adopting them at a rapid pace, and yes, the paywalls at The New York Times and Financial Times are reportedly successful, but there’s something about putting the subscription…

• SF Chron Workers Take Protest to Twitter

  paulgillin

  29 Mar 2013 | 1:38 pm

  Employees at the San Francisco Chronicle have taken to social media to protest a move by parent Hearst Corp. to impose a new healthcare plan that employees say is inferior to their current coverage and costs up to $3,000 more per year. The Chronicle has been hanging by a thread since 2009, when Hearst nearly shut it down after complaining the newspaper was losing $1 million a month. A series of layoffs, pay freezes and cutbacks in vacation and holiday time have left employees frustrated and angry, and the latest move has brought that to the surface. they complain they’re being asked to…

• Pew Report Sees a Glass Half Empty

  paulgillin

  25 Mar 2013 | 7:57 am

  The Pew Research Center’s annual State of the Media Report paints a dismal picture of the condition of mainstream media – in particular broadcast and magazines – but Slate’s Matthew Yglesias says the report looks at the wrong things. Which side are you on? There’s no question that Pew’s annual media audit and survey of 2,000 consumers is about as depressing as any of the 10 annual reports that the nonprofit media watchdog has completed. Among the lowlights: Nearly a third of U.S. adults have stopped using a news outlet because it no longer met their needs.

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• In defense of

  Adrian Holovaty

  6 May 2013 | 8:55 am

  My friend and fellow Chicagoan Evan Miller wrote an excellent blog post over the weekend: Why I Develop For The Mac. It's full of great reasons why his software (which is also excellent, by the way) was written for the desktop, despite the fact that he's a web developer, even the creator of an Erlang web framework. But I'm compelled to respond to it, specifically his statements about <canvas>: large <canvas> areas seem laggy on most browsers So I'm left with <canvas>, and <canvas> is slow. I have become intimately familiar with <canvas> while developing…

• Boston.com's viral explosion videos

  Adrian Holovaty

  15 Apr 2013 | 4:15 pm

  Today's explosions at the Boston Marathon were heartbreaking and horrifying. But a mundane detail in one site's news coverage put me over the edge. I saw a few tweets saying that Boston.com, the hometown newspaper, had high-quality video of the explosion. So I clicked through to one of the links (warning: disturbing video) and couldn't help but notice: the page's <title> was (and still is, as of this writing) "Boston.com viral video page - Boston.com". And the URL starts with "boston.com/video/viral_page". I clicked through several related videos. All had the same title and URL pattern.

• Remembering Malcolm Tredinnick

  Adrian Holovaty

  19 Mar 2013 | 4:04 pm

  Today we got word that Malcolm Tredinnick has passed away. Malcolm was one of the most prolific Django core developers and one of my favorite people. The Django site has a short announcement, and I've compiled the Twitter reaction into a makeshift memorial, but Malcolm deserves more than 140 characters. Here's a remembrance, from a Django perspective. In 2005, Malcolm began appearing in the Django community, seemingly out of nowhere. From his very first mailing-list message in October 2005, he displayed a deep knowledge of programming and an incredible talent for discerning exactly what a…

• RIP EveryBlock

  Adrian Holovaty

  7 Feb 2013 | 9:06 am

  I'm very saddened by today's news that EveryBlock has been shut down by NBC News. I founded EveryBlock in 2007 after receiving a grant from the Knight Foundation. It was launched in January 2008 by an original team of four (Wilson Miner, Dan O'Neil, Paul Smith and me) and was acquired by msnbc.com in 2009. NBC News acquired msnbc.com last year and now has decided to shut down the site and let go all 10 employees. The premise of EveryBlock was to offer you a custom site devoted to news in your neighborhood. We showed you nearby public records (crimes, building permits, restaurant inspections),…

• Notes on Soundslice

  Adrian Holovaty

  26 Nov 2012 | 10:00 am

  Last week, I launched Soundslice. The about page has the scoop, but here's a separate post with some personal details. What is Soundslice? At face value, it's a site that syncs guitar tablature with YouTube videos. Beyond face value, it's a site that lets you annotate sound. As somebody who's never learned to read music, I rely on "tabs" for learning new songs and preserving my own learnings when transcribing music. The problem with tabs, though, is that while they're awesome for notating what strings/frets to play on a guitar, they're horrible for notating subtleties of music, such as how…

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  JackLail.com

• Every journalist needs hacking tips from the NSA

  Jack Lail

  9 May 2013 | 6:15 pm

  And here they are in over 600 pages. The back story about the PDF from Wired, which says the e-book got released as a result of a Freedom of Information request (thanks Sunshine) filed in April. Some of the stuff is out of date, but much of it is not and the tricks and tips are useful and insightful. (See the Google Hacks section). Here's a site and page it references (although the URL has changed) for the math-challenged journalist (yes, all of you) (H/T: Mike Elgan on Google+)

• Mapping hot videos

  Jack Lail

  8 May 2013 | 3:46 am

  I like this new trends map YouTube announced yesterday. It's a great data visualization.

• The Rebel Mouse look

  Jack Lail

  29 Mar 2013 | 2:18 pm

• Tips on comment management

  Jack Lail

  26 Mar 2013 | 12:06 pm

  New post by @saduros: Tips on keeping comments constructive from @jacklail bit.ly/10ffDlw— Knight Dig Media Ctr (@KDMC) March 26, 2013

• Is 'conversation management' a core newsroom function?

  Jack Lail

  28 Feb 2013 | 6:38 am

  There a good bit of continuing discussion about comments and how to manage them (see the link list below). One camp, of which newspapers and TV stations seem to be moving toward, are trying to find pain free ways to manage comments (technology solutions) or to elminate them. The problem: They're just so darn messy. Technology solutions alone are unlikely to be successful. The other, mostly Internet news organizations, are putting more bodies (theirs or their users or both) to managing comments as a content resource. Whether they can create conversations instead of flame wars remains to be…

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• Choosing between the iPad Mini vs. Google Nexus 7 for an Asia backpacking vacation

  Will Sullivan

  16 May 2013 | 9:06 am

  I get asked a lot about mobile and tablet gear recommendations from people because the choices are overwhelming and constantly evolving. My answer is often “it depends” (based on their needs/situation/money/context/etc.) as I wouldn’t recommend the same thing to my Mom as my journalism friends. This winter when I started planning for my solo, 6-week “Bucket List” backpacking trip across Asia where I’d need to travel light, but have as much technology crammed into the smallest, longest-lasting battery, highest storage for the money (more than 16 gb, as my…

• Two years and an industry paradigm shifting

  Will Sullivan

  28 Apr 2013 | 9:47 am

  Lighthouse photo courtesy Paul Bica on Flickr Just over two years ago in April 2011, we opened the previously private Mobile Journalism Facebook group to be publicly visible …and not much happened. It wasn’t the right time yet. This past year though we’ve seen an exponential explosion in growth from about 50 members to almost 300, as the industry has shifted and more advocates for mobile journalism have come to publicly raise awareness, including Regina McCombs, Damon Kiesow, Amy Gahran, Robert Hernandez, and Cory Doctorow. It’s been exciting to see the group grow and…

• Spring and the blossoming of multimedia skills

  Will Sullivan

  17 Mar 2013 | 8:24 pm

   Immersion coach Mike DeSisti at the 2011 NPPA Multimedia Immersion Workshop (Photo by Will Yurman) It’s getting close to Spring again. The snow is melting, coats are getting lighter, flowers are starting to erupt from the soil and I’m diving back into working my nights and weekends on the 7th Annual NPPA Multimedia Immersion with my amazing co-director, Seth Gitner, and our fantastic team of coaches and tech experts who will be descending upon Syracuse, New York mid-May for the workshop. Going through some of my archives getting prepared for this year, it’s been…

• What’s the best digital library tool to manage a huge ebook collection in the cloud?

  Will Sullivan

  12 Nov 2012 | 8:41 pm

  Every Thanksgiving weekend I take some of the fun time to back up my entire archive, defrag and clean up my computers (very exciting, I know). This year I’ve made the resolution to go all cloud in the future, so I hope that I just bought the last external hard drive for my archives, ever. One of the productivity and archive challenges I’m facing is finding a killer digital library management tool. … Anyone have suggestions? I’m basically looking for the Amazon Kindle library functionality, without their DRM locking to their own app (and they also don’t allow…

• Lost a human, gained a new life

  Will Sullivan

  10 Oct 2012 | 8:59 pm

  What a difference a year makes. SND CLE is about to kick off in my home state of Ohio and I, unfortunately, can’t attend but I wish them the best and will be tracking the event from social media. Running SND STL, just over a year ago, marked a pivot point in my life. Actually, most of 2011 and half of 2012 was the pivot point where I came to a serious realization: I needed to find a better life balance. Don’t get me wrong, SND STL was a blast and I’d do it all over again if I had the chance; I learned a lot, the overwhelmingly positive response and impact it made from…

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  sans serif

• How to pass IAS: read newspapers & magazines

  churumuri

  16 May 2013 | 11:31 pm

  It is not often these days that news consumers have something good to say about newspapers. And magazines. And TV stations. And blogs. And websites. Individual and institutional transgressions—paid news, private treaties, medianet, Radia tapes, shrieking anchors, sensationalism, jingoism, corruption, etc—have all contributed enormously to the cynicism of the media among the consuming classes. How heartening therefore to hear Debasweta Banik. At 22, one of youngest to pass the civil services examinations this year, the NOIDA girl tells the Wall Street Journal‘s India…

• Just between You and Me, a ‘Time’ special

  churumuri

  15 May 2013 | 4:32 am

  What goes around comes around in the world of magazines*. Six years ago, Time magazine hailed you, yes You, as the person of the year: “You control the information age. Welcome to your world.” In circa 2013, it bemoans the “Me, Me, Me” generation addicted to phones, tabs and notebooks: “Millennials are lazy, entitled narcissists who still live with their parents.” Just. * Disclosures apply Also read: Do Time magazine’s lists means anything at all? Time, Sandesh and the six degrees of separation Richard Stengel: Do weekly newsmagazines have a future?

• So, how many journalists cracked CAT 2012?

  churumuri

  14 May 2013 | 10:57 pm

  Serving warm, uplifting news first thing in the morning is an integral part of The Times of India‘s sunny credo, a point which comes up over and over in presentations made its managers, and on the pages of the paper. Today, the paper serves it up by the bucketful with the story of N. Shiva Kumar, a newspaper vendor in Bangalore—the son of an illiterate mother and a truck driver—who has cracked CAT 2012 and is headed to the Indian institute of management, Calcutta, as a student. “Shiva Kumar found an opportunity to be a vendor and started his own agency when in Class…

• How a newspaper gave an 11-year-old a future

  churumuri

  13 May 2013 | 3:39 am

  The newspaper world has found its own Kalawati. On April 25, at a traffic light in Bhopal, Kaushal Shakya, an 11-year-old newspaper boy, had a life-changing experience when his potential buyer turned out to be Rahul Gandhi. Writes Rasheed Kidwai in The Telegraph: “Akhbar kyon bechte ho? (Why are you selling newspapers?) Do you go to school?” the Congress vice-president asked the boy holding out a newspaper. Kaushal, who has been selling newspapers at traffic signals for two years now, said he went to a government school and wanted to be a doctor. He said he sold newspapers in his spare…

• New Yorker carries TOI response, 7 months later

  churumuri

  11 May 2013 | 1:28 am

  Exactly seven months after The New Yorker carried a nine-page profile of Samir Jain, Vineet Jain and The Times of India by its acclaimed media critic Ken Auletta the magazine has carried a response from TOI’s executive editor, Arindam Sen Gupta, in its May 5 issue, on medianet, private treaties and other subsidiary issues. Image: courtesy The New Yorker Also read: Samir Jain, Vineet Jain & TOI in New Yorker The Times of India and the Commonwealth Games How The Times of India pumped up Anna Hazare Filed under: For the record, Magazines, Newspapers, People Tagged: Arindam Sen Gupta,…

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  JackLail.com

• Every journalist needs hacking tips from the NSA

  Jack Lail

  9 May 2013 | 6:15 pm

  And here they are in over 600 pages. The back story about the PDF from Wired, which says the e-book got released as a result of a Freedom of Information request (thanks Sunshine) filed in April. Some of the stuff is out of date, but much of it is not and the tricks and tips are useful and insightful. (See the Google Hacks section). Here's a site and page it references (although the URL has changed) for the math-challenged journalist (yes, all of you) (H/T: Mike Elgan on Google+)

• Mapping hot videos

  Jack Lail

  8 May 2013 | 3:46 am

  I like this new trends map YouTube announced yesterday. It's a great data visualization.

• The Rebel Mouse look

  Jack Lail

  29 Mar 2013 | 2:18 pm

• Tips on comment management

  Jack Lail

  26 Mar 2013 | 12:06 pm

  New post by @saduros: Tips on keeping comments constructive from @jacklail bit.ly/10ffDlw— Knight Dig Media Ctr (@KDMC) March 26, 2013

• Is 'conversation management' a core newsroom function?

  Jack Lail

  28 Feb 2013 | 6:38 am

  There a good bit of continuing discussion about comments and how to manage them (see the link list below). One camp, of which newspapers and TV stations seem to be moving toward, are trying to find pain free ways to manage comments (technology solutions) or to elminate them. The problem: They're just so darn messy. Technology solutions alone are unlikely to be successful. The other, mostly Internet news organizations, are putting more bodies (theirs or their users or both) to managing comments as a content resource. Whether they can create conversations instead of flame wars remains to be…

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  Technology

• Why is The Great Gatsby in 3D? Audiences are sick of this fairground trick (though the Nazis liked it)

  Willard Foxton

  15 May 2013 | 5:20 am

  The story of Jay Gatsby holds a fascination for Hollywood film execs: Fitzgerald's dark portrait of the Roaring Twenties has been filmed five times. Maybe they can identify with Gatsby's shallow lifestyle, hosting incredible parties for people who secretly despise him. The latest version, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, comes out on Thursday. The revolutionary twist on [...]

• 3D printed guns: it seems you can make them after all. So go ahead and shoot me with one

  Willard Foxton

  6 May 2013 | 9:35 am

  In this article, I said that if Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed could 3D print a whole gun, not just a part, he could shoot me with it. I gave him until Christmas as a deadline. I was pretty confident it couldn't be done. An array of law enforcement professionals and manufacturing engineers had told [...]

• The online drug marketplace Silk Road is collapsing – did hackers, government or Bitcoin kill it?

  Willard Foxton

  1 May 2013 | 2:52 am

  At 6am this morning, I got an email from one of my sleazier contacts. It simply said "looks like Silk Road has collapsed". I fired the Tor browser you need to connect to the site and, indeed, it wasn't there. At the time of writing, it's still not back up. A look around on assorted [...]

• An unhackable, uncrackable iPhone messaging app? If this is for real, the Government needs to pay attention

  Willard Foxton

  29 Apr 2013 | 5:02 am

  This morning a ballsy Shoreditch tech firm, Redact, have launched an iPhone messaging app that they say is completely uncrackable, unhackable and totally secure. Unlike a lot of people making big claims about their technology, they've actually put their money where their mouth is. They've offered a cash reward to anyone who can intercept and [...]

• Facebook isn't censoring posts on NHS protests because, frankly, they aren't worth censoring

  Willard Foxton

  26 Apr 2013 | 2:13 am

  Last night, there was a minor internet furore after a Bristol-based blogger claimed her blog posts about a clever NHS privatisation protest were being censored by Facebook. I can't quite believe I'm having to write a blog debunking this – it is, of course, utter paranoid nonsense. I'm having to debunk it because the rumour [...]

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  MediaShift Idea Lab

• New Poderopedia Features Let You Reuse Content, Find Power in Community

  17 May 2013 | 4:00 am

  The Poderopedia platform helps show the relationships among the elite in a country or region, especially in places where power is concentrated in the hands of a few people. After winning the Knight News Challenge in 2011, we launched Poderopedia in Chile last fall, with the goal of mapping who's who in business and politics in our country. We also wanted to offer an open-source version of our platform that would let anyone map relationships in their own communities. Since then, the platform has received a lot of international press coverage, and many Chilean news websites have used…

• 4 Lessons for Journalism Students from the Digital Edge

  15 May 2013 | 4:00 am

  This past semester, I flew a drone. I helped set up a virtual reality environment. And I helped print a cup out of thin air. Nice work if you can get it. Working as a research assistant to Dan Pacheco at the Peter A. Horvitz Endowed Chair for Journalism Innovation at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, I helped run the Digital Edge Journalism Series in the spring semester. We held a series of four programs that highlighted the cutting edge of journalism technology. Pacheco ran a session about drones in media; we had Dan Schultz from the MIT Media Lab talk…

• How FrontlineSMS Helped an Indonesian Community Clean Up a River

  14 May 2013 | 4:00 am

  FrontlineSMS has had a strong connection with environmental issues since our founder had the initial spark of an idea while working on an anti-poaching project in South Africa. We're delighted to share how Een Irawan Putra of KPC Bogor and the Indonesia Nature Film Society used FrontlineSMS in Indonesia to invite the community to help clean up the garbage clogging the Ciliwung River. Community Care Ciliwung Bogor, known locally as KPC Bogor, was founded in March 2009 in West Java, Indonesia to harness the growing community concern for the sustainability of the Ciliwung River in the city of…

• OpenNews: Two New Code Sprints Help Newsrooms Tackle Data

  13 May 2013 | 4:00 am

  Data is a buzzword nowadays. Whether it’s sifting Big Data to influence business, or the promise of Open Data to transform government, or Data Analytics winning elections, data is constantly in the news. But one thing that gets glossed over in all the buzz is that data is hard. Really, really hard. One of the hardest parts is cleaning, standardizing, and formatting data in a way that journalists and others can start to work with. These are real challenges faced by newsrooms, and we’re hoping to make some of that a little easier with two new Code Sprints we’re happy to…

• Can Citizen Journalism Move Beyond Crisis Reporting?

  9 May 2013 | 4:00 am

  The aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings demonstrated yet another significant marker for citizen journalism. Felix Salmon, in an excellent post on the Reuters blog, wrote that the manhunt for a suspect in the bombings "in many ways represented the first fully interactive news story." The crisis again demonstrated the value -- and risks -- of citizen reporting via social media. Citizen reporters broke much of the news, though they still needed broadcast media to help spread it. In some cases, citizens were able to capture iconic photos of events. Others were able to tell compelling…

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  MultimediaShooter

• ICP 2013 Infinity Awards: International Center of Photography and MediaStorm a Match Made in Multimedia Heaven

  koci hernandez

  4 May 2013 | 5:29 am

  Jeff Bridges is an Academy Award-winning actor. He is also an accomplished photographer. He’s been taking pictures on the set of his movies for more than 30 years, capturing intimate and surprising behind-the-scenes moments. See the project at http://mediastorm.com/clients/2013-icp-infinity-awards-special-presentation-jeff-bridges  

• The ‘Snow Fall’ effect and dissecting the multimedia longform narrative

  koci hernandez

  21 Apr 2013 | 2:39 pm

  By Jeremy Rue “It’s become a verb in our newsroom,” a New York Times graphics producer tells me. “People are now saying, ‘can we snowfall this story?’” Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek has become a watershed in multimedia journalism. The story by John Branch recently won a Pulitzer prize in feature writing, and as noted by the Pulitzer website it was “a project enhanced by its deft integration of multimedia elements.” As a journalism educator, I’m constantly collecting links to examples of stories that attempt innovate and redefine the narrative form online. For…

• “Silent Storytelling: Motion Speaks Louder Than Words” GUEST post by Danny Groner

  koci hernandez

  25 Mar 2013 | 9:23 am

  by Danny Groner/ Shutterstock   “The sounds of silence.” It’s a vivid refrain we’re all familiar with, thanks to Simon and Garfunkel. Behind this apparent oxymoron lies something more, a certain sensibility that all digital producers work into their final projects. Skilled professionals use silence to help establish, build, and propel their stories forward. That goes beyond reaction shots from main characters, though; acting can only take a film so far. Adding carefully-selected and re-purposed B-roll shots can carry the emotional weight to pack a real emotional…

• Limited Edition iPhoneography from CanvasPop

  koci hernandez

  27 Aug 2012 | 7:08 pm

    This is a FIRST for me. I’ve never made my iphoneography available for purchase. So for a LIMITED time, 7 days, you can buy this image. It’s an honor to be working with the great folks @canvaspop to offer this limited edition print of one of my favorite images. For me this image is about change and acceptance. I needed a reminder to embrace the now, instead of fighting against my current state of mind, wishing for some other circumstance. So, I captured this as a reminder to allow events, people and the circumstance of the moment to influence and change me, even the…

• Embrace the Remix | Kirby Ferguson explores creativity

  koci hernandez

  25 Aug 2012 | 8:48 am

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  Reflections of a Newsosaur

• How publishers can win at mobile commerce

  Newsosaur

  8 May 2013 | 5:00 am

  In the never-ending quest by marketers to put the right offer in front of the right consumer at precisely the right time, inner space is becoming the next frontier for mobile commerce – and a major opportunity for newspaper publishers.  Inner space is the precious geography inside a store, where marketers have their last, best chance to persuade consumers to buy what they are selling. Here’s why

• Print circ fell 42% at top papers since 2005

  Newsosaur

  2 May 2013 | 5:00 am

  A series of changes in recent years in the way newspapers count their subscribers masks a deep, ongoing and troubling plunge that has cut print circulation by 41.6% at the nation’s biggest papers since 2005.  Print matters because it still produces approximately three-quarters of the revenues at the typical newspaper, according to Jim Conaghan, the vice president of research at the Newspaper

• Citizen ‘journalism’ ran amok in Boston crisis

  Newsosaur

  22 Apr 2013 | 5:00 am

  With an entire city on lockdown and the whole world watching, crowd reporting on the drama in Boston last week reached critical mass. Now, we are facing a critical mess.  Armed with iPhones, empowered by Twitter and amplified by the high-tech witch hunt known as Reddit, perhaps more self-appointed citizen “journalists” than ever broadcast whatever came to mind in an instant, unencumbered by such

• Why paywalls are scary

  Newsosaur

  10 Apr 2013 | 5:00 am

  The case for paywalls would seem to be compelling:  Stanch the decline in print circulation, get paid for producing valuable local content and tap into a fresh source of sorely needed revenue at a time advertising sales continue to shrink.   All good?  Not necessarily. The reason to worry about paywalls is that they severely limit the prospects of developing a wider audience for newspapers at a

• Newspaper ad sales skid for seventh straight year

  Newsosaur

  8 Apr 2013 | 8:15 am

  Advertising sales, the predominant revenue stream for the newspaper industry, dropped for the seventh year in a row in 2012, falling to less than half the record $49.4 billion achieved as recently as 2005. More on that in a moment.  But first, let’s put things in perspective by comparing the meteoric rise of Google, the definitive digital media company, with the epic collapse that has cut the

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  20 headlines from the reading list

• The power of photography: time, mortality and memory

  19 May 2013 | 11:30 am

  We take thousands of pictures nowadays, but do we still cherish them?Blake MorrisonAdrian SearleJemima KissGrayson PerrySean O'Hagan

• Vevo boss Nic Jones: 'We're at the pointy end of labels' activities'

  19 May 2013 | 11:00 am

  What the majors want from the video hub, what he learned from MySpace – and why mobile is more than just phonesThere are very few surviving pictures of Nic Jones, now Vevo's senior vice-president of international, wearing short shorts and playing his trombone, but being brought up by his parents in the Salvation Army tradition was, he says, what inspired his love of music. "It was all bloody James Last in our house," he adds in a very loud, excitable voice, going on to explain that it wasn't long before he rebelled and immersed himself in the world of David Bowie, all the way to Aladdin…

• How Apple closed down Apple.com and my greatest party trick

  19 May 2013 | 2:50 am

• Moshi Monsters' founder: the shift to mobile caught us by surprise

  18 May 2013 | 2:00 am

  With a dip in desktop users, Moshi is racing to keep kids entertained on tablets and mobiles. By Jemima KissLondon-based Mind Candy was stalling five years ago, but took a punt on an idea for a social networking game site for children.By 2013, the children's game network had become ubiquitous at every supermarket checkout and at every toy store - a runaway brand extension success.Founder Michael Acton-Smith insists that revenues are holding up, but admits the company has struggled with the speed at which children are switching to tablets and mobiles, and has yet to release its tablet app. On…

• Pitchfork Gets Immersive with Daft Punk in New Feature

  17 May 2013 | 9:15 am

  Next week, the musical world will experience a huge event: eight years after their last album, master of dance music Daft Punk will drop their much-hyped album, Random Access Memories. Music website Pitchfork has honored that with an amazing, immersive feature that evokes the immersive nature of the buzzy New York Times piece, “Snowfall.” Offering a rare glimpse into the largely private world of Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, and it achieves it best with strong visual elements that only new media can provide. Taking advantage of HTML5…

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• NYT site ‘was subjected to denial of service attacks’ this week

  Andrew Beaujon

  17 May 2013 | 2:32 pm

  New York Times’ site “was subjected to denial of service attacks” this week… Read more

• Study: Twitter ‘has a distinct geographic profile’ from mainstream media

  Andrew Beaujon

  17 May 2013 | 2:05 pm

  First Monday | Smithsonian | floatingsheep A study of the “geography of Twitter” compares, among many other data sets, what it calls “Twitter versus mainstream news media.” This part of Kalev Leetaru, Shaowen Wang, Guofeng Cao, Anand Padmanabhan … Read more

• Patch gets new CEO, lays off staffers

  Andrew Beaujon

  17 May 2013 | 11:37 am

  All Things D Steve Kalin is Patch’s new CEO, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong told Patch employees in an email Friday. Patch will also make several motions that Armstrong writes will “move Patch meaningfully toward profitability.” Among them: layoffs. The … Read more

• AP photographer has chronicled several presidents’ ‘umbrella problems’

  Andrew Beaujon

  17 May 2013 | 11:04 am

  It’s been a rough week for President Obama, whose administration is facing a trio of controversies. On Thursday, he created one more: A U.S. Marine held an umbrella for the president while he gave a press conference with Turkish … Read more

• Stephen Colbert, Arianna Huffington among this weekend’s commencement speakers

  Andrew Beaujon

  17 May 2013 | 9:34 am

  Stephen Colbert is scheduled to speak Saturday at the University of Virginia. Arianna Huffington will speak at Smith College Sunday. They’re among the many journalists who’ve spoken or are scheduled to speak at commencement ceremonies this spring, as many … Read more

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  Megan Taylor: Web Journalist

• Indian Chicken

  Megan Taylor

  12 May 2013 | 7:44 am

  Indian ChickenOK, yes, I may occasionally be one of those people who takes pictures of their food. But only when it’s really awesome. Or when I cook it.

• Flow

  Megan Taylor

  8 May 2013 | 8:31 am

  The Pastry Box Project | 18 April 2013, baked by Samantha Warren.

• My Ideal Twitter Client

  Megan Taylor

  1 May 2013 | 9:49 am

  I knew that the old-school Adobe Air TweetDeck was on the chopping block, but found out this morning that I have until May 7 to find a new Twitter client.TweetDeck to be discontinued for Android, iPhone, and AIR on May 7thI spent 2 hours this morning looking for a replacement, but haven’t found what I want yet. Nothing out there really replicates what TweetDeck does:I want to the option to post to Facebook and Twitter simultaneously, but also separately. (I don’t actually need my Facebook newsfeed in the client.)Desktop app. If I wanted to use Twitter in the bloody browser, I…

• Volunteering for ScriptEd

  Megan Taylor

  22 Apr 2013 | 2:05 pm

  For the past few months I’ve been volunteering once a week with ScriptEd, a non-profit organization that offers programming courses to students at schools in low-income communities in New York City. I co-teach 5 students at Harlem Village Academies for 2 -3 hours every Wednesday. So far, we’ve been covering HTML, CSS and JavaScript.What’s cool about this group of kids is that they are self-selecting (yes, I see how this is also a short-coming, but it’s early days yet). ScriptEd is an after-school activity, rather than part of the normal curriculum, so they are really…

• Three WordPress plugin ideas

  Megan Taylor

  18 Apr 2013 | 8:49 am

  Because I can’t find any that do exactly what I want…1. A sidebar widget that shows the 5  (or whatever) most recent commits by a user to any GitHub repo. Realized my commit messages are not useful, found a plugin to show a list of repos.2. A sidebar widget that shows the 5 (or whatever) most recent public Gists by a user Found one.3. A sidebar widget that shows 5 (or whatever) Meetup groups a user belongs to that are either the most active or have upcoming events.

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  Teaching Online Journalism

• Your syllabus as a blog: How to do it

  Mindy McAdams

  7 May 2013 | 11:58 am

  For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See two examples: graduate course; undergrad course.) One of the best features for students: If you choose a WordPress theme that is mobile-ready, your students can very easily check their deadlines, assignments, etc., on their smartphones, from anywhere. You can also update your syllabus from your smartphone. There’s an app for that: IOS and Android. So how should you start? First, set…

• Teaching Web video: Everything you need to know now

  Mindy McAdams

  28 Apr 2013 | 7:46 am

  In non-TV news organizations today, we see mostly one of two choices for video (or both of these): iPhone (more than any other phone or small device) DSLR (various models) All the smaller video cams seem to have fallen out of favor. Only TV and feature-length documentary makers use high-end video cameras. What does this mean for teaching in j-schools? Some great minds in multimedia journalism education have been discussing that on the Facebook group "ONA Educators," in response to a question posted on April 25, 2013. With permission of those named, here is what they said.

• Code for journalism students: Presentations

  Mindy McAdams

  26 Apr 2013 | 7:15 am

  In the semester now ending, I taught a course in coding for journalism students. You can see the detailed course schedule online. Here are all the PowerPoints I showed in that class. You can view them on SlideShare or download them there. Beginning jQuery – Part 1 – Part 2 Introduction to the DOM JavaScript 101 Responsive Web Design Design Concepts/Web Design HTML5 Canvas Python – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Bonus: Learning Python (rationale) The class went well. The students seem happy with what they have learned and done. They had had a basic intro…

• Top 10 posts this month

  Mindy McAdams

  25 Apr 2013 | 6:44 am

  These are the most-viewed posts on this blog in the past 30 days: 10 examples of bespoke article design and scrolling goodness 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling Advice to journalism students: Forget grad school! Recording phone interviews: A solution that works Get started with Web coding. Part 5: How to use Git and GitHub List of requirements for a digital story designer Best social media tools for journalists Why does anyone major in journalism? How to shoot video interviews Get started with Web coding. Part 1: HTML and CSS Enjoy!

• Journalism curriculum, and the hands-in-the-air approach

  Mindy McAdams

  23 Apr 2013 | 11:49 am

  It’s hard work making sure a journalism curriculum remains relevant. Here are “four essential components to the new curriculum for teaching news and communication,” according to Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute and co-author of The Elements of Journalism (2001): “Teaching of technical skills (how to use different platforms and technology). …” “Journalistic responsibility (including history, values, ethics, community, material that always made journalists better). …” “Understanding of business (how to…

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• AnyPerk Expands Concept of Employer Driven Discount Clubs

  Peter

  17 May 2013 | 10:53 am

  We like the idea of using corporations as a distribution base for media and services. In the 1990s, The Family Education Network built a great newsletter business distributed in corporate lobbies. The concept’s been widely extended with the addition of email and the ability to more effectively target employees based on different criteria. NextJump, for instance, has built a business providing discounts and deals sent out as part of employee communications. The deals are generally aggregated from other sources, but it can target the offers based on buying and browsing habits. It takes a…

• Merchant Warehouse Moves Up Value Chain From Payments to ‘Engagement’

  Peter

  15 May 2013 | 5:00 pm

  Payment processors and related companies work with most SMBs and are increasingly seen as a potential sales channel for reaching them with additional services. This week, we talked with one processor, Boston-based Merchant Warehouse, about its efforts to leverage its base of 75,000 business customers beyond terminal sales. CEO Henry Helgeson told us the 15 year-old, 300 employee company got its start selling terminals, but has seen strong growth in new products such as integrated coupons that anchor its “Genius” customer engagement platform. A horde of companies have introduced coupons,…

• Gib Olander’s Local Viewpoints Gets Business Feedback, Reviews

  Peter

  15 May 2013 | 4:11 pm

  Former Localeze business develoment guy Gib Olander is back in the game, this time switching his focus from local business listings innovation to maximizing effective local business reviews. Think of a variation of “Net Promoter Scores” for local business. Olander’s new company, Local Viewpoints has won seed funding from Wavetable Labs. It launched at the end of March, starting with four sales people hitting businesses up in hometown Chicago, as well as other markets. The company basically sends out a short survey after customers shop a location, providing instant feedback…

• SpaFinder Last Minute: Scheduling as Promotion Opportunity

  Peter

  28 Apr 2013 | 11:29 am

  Is appointment scheduling poised to be a new anchor for service promotions? That vision –”look for an appointment, get a deal or upsell ” — has been articulated by a number of scheduling vendors, such as Agendize, FullSlate and Schedulicity. Most recently, RedBeacon founder Ethan Anderson has launched MyTime as a scheduling supermarket that allows shoppers to find discounted appointments at unfilled times. Now comes Spafinder Last Minute, which provides same day and next day appointments. Started as “bTreated” by founder Josh Brenner, the company was…

• Payments 2013: Opportunities in The Next Wave of Payment Technologies

  Peter

  27 Apr 2013 | 4:03 pm

  Will tech companies like Google, Apple, eBay/PayPal, Amazon, Microsoft, Square and Intuit move in on the role traditionally played by banks? It is a distinct possibility in the not-too-distant future, as digitalized transactions, mobile payments and offers, and digital wallets usher in a debit-oriented environment that loosens traditional ties to credit cards and bank branch activity – not to mention merchant advertising. That’s the message from several panels at NACHA’s Payments 2013 this week in San Diego. Much of the shift will lean on Browser and Web-based purchasing that we…

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• Academy Fight Song

  Derek Willis

  27 Apr 2013 | 5:00 pm

  What’s that I hear The sound of marching feet It has a strange allure Has a strange allure Mission of Burma, “Academy Fight Song” Disclaimer: I am the son and son-in-law of retired tenured university professors, and have taught data reporting skills for about 10 years at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I love teaching. I have my issues with “education”. This post on journalism curriculum by University of Florida journalism professor Mindy McAdams deserves to be widely read. Not just because it attempts to deal with a growing problem in a responsible manner, but because it is…

• The Itemizer

  Derek Willis

  23 Apr 2013 | 5:00 pm

  Here’s a little secret about me: I love campaign finance data. Ok, so that’s no secret at all, and it’s probably unhealthy in some respects. But let’s face it, campaign finance data provides a rich source of information for stories, blog posts and tweets, in rough descending order of size and scope. There’s one thing that has always bugged me about how we reference campaign finance data online: the best that most of us can do when we link to a campaign filing is to link to a particular page, whether that’s a list of contributors or a summary page. Yet often we’re referencing a…

• Mobile Apps - Where the data lives

  Derek Willis

  1 Mar 2013 | 4:00 pm

  At first glance, I wasn’t sure how useful a mobile app for presidential documents would be. After all, it’s not too often that I am on the go and need to see the contents of the President’s weekly radio address. I had found a lot of value in the mobile version of The Plum Book, which provided the data for a New York Times story on presidential appointments. The data hadn’t been easily accessible before the mobile app appeared, instead being trapped in PDFs. Presidential documents, on the other hand, can be the white noise of an administration, coming off the production line day after…

• The Data-Driven Congressional Reporter

  Derek Willis

  25 Dec 2012 | 4:00 pm

  Washington is full of reporters who excel at finding and building sources, or at knowing which documents to look for and when. Those are skills that take time to develop and hone, but plenty of congressional reporters don’t have tons of experience under their belts. I didn’t have any when I arrived in 1998. The best training I had for covering Congress was the one I received while working at Congressional Quarterly. The number of CQ alumni working in the Washington press corps is pretty formidable, and for a good reason: these folks understand how the House and the Senate work, and often…

• Congressional Data on GitHub - A Way Forward

  Derek Willis

  14 Oct 2012 | 5:00 pm

  Two years ago, there was a round of blog posts touched off by Clay Johnson that asked, “Why shouldn’t there be a GitHub for data?” My own view at the time was that availability of the data wasn’t as much an issue as smart usage and documentation of it: We need to import, prune, massage, convert. It’s how we learn. Turns out that GitHub actually makes this easier, and I’ve had a conversion of sorts to the idea of putting data in version control systems that make it easier to view, download and report issues with data. The biggest factor in this change is the work that Eric Mill,…

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• Lesson Plans Available!

  Cyndy Green

  24 Apr 2013 | 10:56 am

  OK…so this is totally shameless self-promotion. Larry Nance and I have completed the first edition of the Teacher’s Supplement to The Basics of Videojournalism. This 90 page coil bound book will soon be available at the Journalism Education Association Bookstore. Contents include more than thirty lesson plans for teachers to instruct budding VJs, as well as suggestions for setting up and teaching a class, forms (Syllabus, Equipment Liability Waiver, templates for scripts) and sample rubrics. But don’t wait too long. This is limited (at this time) to the 25 books that are…

• Timeless advice…

  Cyndy Green

  14 Apr 2013 | 5:08 pm

  …it never changes.  The process of creating a visual story that is.  Larry Nance and I are merrily working on our tome, The Basics of Videojournalism when what should appear online but some helpful hints for visual shooters. Trouble is – they’re more than ninety-five years out of date. Or are they? Thanks to Amanda Emily, here is a list of hints written by Pathe’ News editor Paul Hugon in 1916 – during the birth of the movement of newsreel shooters. Let’s see how those tips stack up. Right off there’s this advice. Still applicable today. The…

• b-roll hack

  Cyndy Green

  30 Mar 2013 | 2:47 am

  Cameragod down under came up with a novel concept to booster the rep of one of my favorite sites – b-roll. (b-roll is the go-to site for broadcast news cameramen to discuss gear, gossip and more.) Here is his tip – and a great one it is. I would never have thought of this. And here is my tip – and oldie but goodie. Especially if you’re fairly new to the biz. I look forward to more of these and hope to learn from an amazing group of peers.

• Looking for stories…

  Cyndy Green

  26 Mar 2013 | 7:43 am

  …is the name of a site I was directed to this week.  While the concept may not be original (one story a week) the execution is amazing.  Joan Planas and Ana Salva’ have a vision of producing a story a week focusing on people. Plain people who have stories to tell that educate and inform the audience about their community and country. I like that they spend the time to get to know their subjects over a day or week and the entire story is told in the subject’s own words (with subtitles as necessary).   But what I like even more is their artistry…their use of motion…

• There be Dragons!

  Cyndy Green

  27 Feb 2013 | 7:20 am

  Love this crawling quote on my husband’s computer: “It’s not that we say dragons are real…but we say they can be beaten…” Dragons being, of course, totally (ahem) imaginary creatures that lurk in fairy tales and in the backs of our minds. Well in the back of my mind lately there’s been a desire to cut out the seemingly endless hours I spend transcribing interviews. I’d looked into voice recognition software in the past and had an inkling there were some possibilities out there. What did me in was a marathon week of listening to and transcribing…

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• The Field of Dreams for The Wall Street Journal

  Jenn Ackerman + Tim Gruber

  1 May 2013 | 1:56 pm

  For an assignment for The Wall Street Journal, we found ourselves at the Field of Dreams in rural Iowa. We both remember seeing the movie as kids so it was fun to experience it in person. If only we had packed a bat and glove to make the experience even better. A few photos –

• Family Debt for US News & World Report

  Jenn Ackerman + Tim Gruber

  22 Apr 2013 | 12:06 pm

  We spent a beautiful evening with a Wisconsin family for a story about getting out of $123,000 in debt for the US News & World Report. A few photos –

• PTSD for Mother Jones Magazine

  Jenn Ackerman + Tim Gruber

  19 Apr 2013 | 7:15 pm

  Last fall we had one of those assignments that had us amazed by the power of the human spirit. Kateri and her husband James amazed us with their deep dedication to one another. James returned from serving in Iraq and has dealt with PTSD ever since. In the time we spent with the two and their kids it became rather apparent the passion and love Kateri feels for her husband in helping him deal with returning to his life here in the states. No easy task and we wish them all the best. A few photos –

• Chuck Runyon Anytime Fitness CEO for Entrepreneur Magazine

  Jenn Ackerman + Tim Gruber

  27 Feb 2013 | 10:00 pm

  We had a fun shoot late last year with Chuck Runyon the CEO of Anytime Fitness for Entrepreneur Magazine. Chuck was an awesome guy and very easy to work with, which in turn made the shoot a very enjoyable one as we talked about everything from working out to raising kids. All in all it was a fun day outside the office! A few photos and the tearsheet –

• Red Bull Crashed Ice for The New York Times

  Jenn Ackerman + Tim Gruber

  6 Feb 2013 | 5:26 pm

  Last year we missed the Crashed Ice event that happened in Saint Paul. After hearing all the buzz about it last year Jenn and I were planning to go as spectators to check it out it until we got a call from the New York Times to document it. We love when things work out like that. It’s very fitting that the only stop the event makes in the US happens to be in the State of Hockey. A few photos –

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• Allen West Joins Fox News As Contributor

  kmatsa

  17 May 2013 | 6:07 am

• Financial Times Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army

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  17 May 2013 | 6:07 am

• View: Social Minority Issues in Perspective

  kmatsa

  17 May 2013 | 5:54 am

• Nicholas Jackson Plans to Launch a 'Smarter Version of MediaBistro'

  kmatsa

  17 May 2013 | 5:53 am

• Stephanie Elam Joins CNN as Los Angeles-Based Correspondent

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• NPPA's John Long To Enter Connecticut Journalism Hall Of Fame

  2094

  15 May 2013 | 9:58 pm

  HARTFORD, CT (May 17, 2013) – John Long, a National Press Photographers Association past president and the chairman of NPPA's Ethics and Standards Committee, will be inducted into the Connecticut Journalism Hall of Fame on May 23.

• Multimedia Immersion, Part Two: A Week Of Collaboration

  2094

  15 May 2013 | 7:09 pm

  Twelve hours into the first day, and Lori Waselchuk felt it click. “This is so great,” she said. “I’ve been shooting totally backwards. It has been a great first day.”

• Multimedia Immersion, Part One: A Week Of Transformation

  2094

  14 May 2013 | 9:03 pm

  It’s 6:30 a.m. I woke to the sound of a harpsichord on the magic rectangle next to my head: my iPhone. I intentionally chose a pleasant sounding alarm as opposed to my traditional shrill beeping because throughout this week sleep will become more of a luxury, and I’ll need to wake up to something I don’t want to punch, as much. And this is only Day One of an incredibly intense, fulfilling week of learning at NPPA’s Multimedia Immersion Workshop at Syracuse University.  

• World Press Photo Verifies Paul Hansen's Winning Picture

  2094

  14 May 2013 | 11:23 am

  World Press Photo has just released a statement confirming the integrity of Paul Hansen's winning photograph. Experts were asked to examine the RAW and JPEG files and issue a conclusion.

• NPPA, Media Groups, Oppose Beyoncé Tour Guidelines

  2094

  14 May 2013 | 5:32 am

  On behalf of 19 media organizations the National Press Photographers Association has objected to Beyoncé's 2013 World Tour Guidelines for photography and television. NPPA voiced its concerns in a letter from NPPA's general counsel to the Schure Media Group.

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• Why I stopped working with print publishers (for a while)

  Paul Bradshaw

  18 May 2013 | 1:13 am

  Tweet This was first published on the BBC College of Journalism website: I have just spent 10 months publishing an ebook. Not ‘writing’, or ‘producing’, but 10 months publishing. Just as the internet helped flatten the news industry – making reporters into publishers and distributors – it has done the same to the book industry. The question I wanted to ask was: how does that change the book? Having written books for traditional publishers before, my plunge into self-publishing was prompted when I decided I wanted to write a book for journalists about…

• I am a coding denier

  Paul Bradshaw

  15 May 2013 | 12:00 am

  TweetThere is an exchange that sometimes takes place, perfectly described by Beth Ashton, between those who use technology, and those who don’t. It goes like this: Prospective data journalist: ‘I’d really like to learn how to do data journalism but I can’t do statistics!’ Data journalist: ‘Don’t let that put you off, I don’t know anything about numbers either, I’m a journalist, not a mathematician!’ Prospective data journalist: ‘But I can’t code, and it all looks so codey and complicated’ Data journalist: That’s fine, NONE OF US can code. None of us. Open angle…

• Launch of new survey on the legal experiences and views of journalists and online publishers

  jtownend

  14 May 2013 | 2:12 am

  TweetA new survey for journalists, bloggers and online publishers, which can be found at this link, aims to collect information about their experiences of and views on libel and privacy law A system of arbitration is at the heart of Lord Justice Leveson’s recommendations, and different versions are included in the the government’s draft Royal Charter and the industry’s own proposals [PDF]. The suggestion is that an arbitration service could deal with libel and privacy complaints that would otherwise go to court. Last minute amendments to the Crime and Courts bill (now Act)…

• FAQ: Does citizen journalism impact on employability?

  Paul Bradshaw

  11 May 2013 | 2:00 am

  TweetHere’s another collection of questions answered in public as part of the FAQ section – this time concerning citizen journalism: What effect do you think citizen journalism will have on the future for professional journalists? It’s already had an impact on their awareness of scrutiny: I’ve heard journalists and editors saying they feel they have to produce better quality journalism and get it right, because they know if they get the facts wrong people will point it out. It’s also already had an effect on how they work: journalism is becoming more…

• Free ebook: Citizen Video – training and engaging citizens in video journalism

  Paul Bradshaw

  10 May 2013 | 2:06 am

  TweetVideographer Franzi Baehrle has published an ebook documenting lessons in delivering video training to non-journalists. The ebook was part of her final project for the MA Online Journalism at Birmingham City University, and based on her experiences of working with communities online and offline in Birmingham, with the Guardian Media Group’s n0tice project, the Birmingham Mail’s digital team, and independently. I forgot to blog about it at the time it was published last Autumn, but better late than never: it’s an excellent piece of work, and well worth reading.

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• NY Guild Compromises Met with Stonewalling from Kaplan

  Janelle

  17 May 2013 | 12:57 pm

  StaffMay 17, 2013The Newspaper Guild of New YorkNew York Guild negotiators went to the bargaining table last week with considerable compromises on sick time and other key issues that would be part of a first contract for Kaplan English as a second language teachers. "We were cautiously optimistic when Kaplan representatives promised to respond with reasonable counteroffers," the local reports. "But after taking a brief caucus all the KIC (Kaplan International Centers) team came back with was more of the same: stonewalling and a lot of carefully worded nothing. In fact, some of what they…

• Verizon Wireless Gave Feds AP Reporters' Phone Records

  Janelle

  17 May 2013 | 10:12 am

  Ryan GallagherMay 17, 2013SlateA new reason not to use anti-union Verizon Wireless as your cell service provider: As part of the ongoing phone-snooping scandal, media reports say the company handed over AP journalists' cell phone records to the federal government last year, no questions asked.

• Single Mom's Story Illustrates Court Interpreters' Struggle

  Janelle

  17 May 2013 | 8:18 am

  Katy Van SantMay 17, 2013Pacific Media Workers GuildNo raises for more than five years and skyrocketing increases in health care costs mean making "decisions I wish I didn't have to make," writes California court interpreter and single mom Katy Van Sant. Her story illustrates why the Pacific Media Guild-represented interpeters are fighting so hard for fair wages and benefits. Photo: Katy and her 4-year-old daughter, Lyla. Photo by David Bacon.

• Former CMG Leader Wins Nomination for Parliament

  Janelle

  17 May 2013 | 8:08 am

  Beatrice FantoniMay 17, 2013The Windsor StarFormer journalist, Canadian Media Guild officer and sector vice president Percy Hatfield won his party's nomination Thursday to run for Parliament from Windsor-Tecumeh, saying he's convinced he can win the general election and turn his area back into a New Democratic Party stronghold. Photo: Screen shot from interviews with Hatfield.

• Deadline Soon for Guild-Sponsored Labor Photo Contest

  Janelle

  17 May 2013 | 6:58 am

  StaffMay 17, 2013NewsGuild-CWAParades, petitions, picketing and protesting. They've always made for great pictures, sometimes prize-winning ones. For the second year, the Guild is sponsoring a photography contest as part of the Labor Heritage Foundation’s Great Labor Arts Exchange in June. The aim is to encourage photography that shows union and community activism, in the spirit of the theme of the festival: “Gonna Take Us All: Labor and Community United!” Awards will be presented in three categories: $100 to a student winner (K-12); $300 to an adult amateur photographer; and $600…

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• TalkTalk extends X Factor deal

  Mark Sweney

  19 May 2013 | 11:34 am

  Telecoms company to retain ITV's primetime talent show as key part of its marketing campaign in the UKTalkTalk has renewed its £20m-plus deal to sponsor ITV's The X Factor as it ups the advertising ante in the battle against rivals including BT, BSkyB and Virgin Media to win customers to its new YouView-based TV service.The telecoms and broadband operator, which last week became the fastest-growing new TV business in the UK after adding 150,000 subscribers in the first quarter, has struck a three-year deal to use ITV1's flagship entertainment show as a key strand in the marketing of TalkTalk…

• Google chairman Eric Schmidt softens line on tax loopholes

  Simon Bowers

  19 May 2013 | 11:14 am

  Boss of search engine says international tax law could benefit from reform – a marked shift in tone from December remarksGoogle's chairman, Eric Schmidt, has said he welcomes promises by international leaders to crack down on tax loopholes exploited by the search firm and other multinational internet businesses that take billions of pounds of sales from the UK through overseas companies, which HM Revenue & Customs cannot tax."Given the intensity of the debate, not just in the UK but also in America and elsewhere, international tax law could almost certainly benefit from reform," he conceded…

• Open door: The readers' editor on ... why chocolate and peanuts left a sour taste

  Chris Elliott

  19 May 2013 | 11:00 am

  Sometimes complaints can get lost in the shuffleTriage is the action of sorting by quality, most often associated with dealing with wounded on the battlefield. Hospitals use it as a way of assigning the appropriate priority to patients to ensure effective treatment. On a very busy day in the readers' editor's office it is a very useful practice to adopt when dealing with 120 emails involving complaints and queries, where each person or group expects an immediate response, no matter how serious the issue.However, it is rarely possible to apply a strict hierarchy, which is not always easy to…

• Vevo boss Nic Jones: 'We're at the pointy end of labels' activities'

  Jemima Kiss

  19 May 2013 | 11:00 am

  What the majors want from the video hub, what he learned from MySpace – and why mobile is more than just phonesThere are very few surviving pictures of Nic Jones, now Vevo's senior vice-president of international, wearing short shorts and playing his trombone, but being brought up by his parents in the Salvation Army tradition was, he says, what inspired his love of music. "It was all bloody James Last in our house," he adds in a very loud, excitable voice, going on to explain that it wasn't long before he rebelled and immersed himself in the world of David Bowie, all the way to Aladdin…

• Yahoo poised to buy Tumblr for rumoured $1.1bn

  Charles Arthur

  19 May 2013 | 10:45 am

  Reports claim board has approved move to buy blogging platform site that could catapult Yahoo back into top flight web firmsMarissa Mayer, the former Googler who is now chief executive of Yahoo, is poised to create yet another nothing-to-riches tale in the web industry with a rumoured $1.1bn (£720m) acquisition of the blogging site Tumblr.Mayer called Yahoo's board together on Sunday afternoon to discuss the company's latest attempt to regain the glamour it once held, and the word from Sunnyvale, California is that the board has given its approval. Tumblr was only founded in 2007, by David…

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• Lin Zhao’s words, written in blood, haunt China still

  Mark Schaver

  18 May 2013 | 4:32 pm

    Ashley Sun at TeaLeafNation: Lin Zhao was an ardent Communist in her early years, but she was labeled a “rightist” while studying at the Peking University during Mao’s 1956 “Anti-Rightist Movement.” This movement followed the “Hundred Flowers Campaign,” during which the intelligentsia were invited to criticize the Communist Party and then persecuted for doing so. As Lin became more and more outspoken in her criticism of the regime, she was expelled from school and founded an underground publication, which earned her a prison sentence of 20 years. She served only eight…

• Your self-doubt is more significant than your opinions

  Mark Schaver

  6 May 2013 | 6:41 pm

  There’s a new biography of the economist and writer Albert O. Hirschman and Cass. R. Sunstein reviewed it for The New York Review of Books: … Hirschman sought, in his early twenties and long before becoming a writer, to “prove Hamlet wrong.” In Shakespeare’s account, Hamlet is immobilized and defeated by doubt. Hirschman was a great believer in doubt—he never doubted it—and he certainly doubted his own convictions. At a conference designed to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of his first book, who else would take the opportunity to show that one of his own central…

• Howard Kurtz, the occasionally unreliable source, explains himself on CNN

  Mark Schaver

  5 May 2013 | 4:11 pm

  Howard Kurtz invited Politico’s Dylan Byers and NPR’s David Folkenflik to his CNN show, Reliable Sources, Sunday to question him about mistakes he made reporting on basketball player Jason Collins. Kurtz had claimed that when Collins wrote about his homosexuality in Sports Illustrated he didn’t disclose that he once had a girlfriend and had been engaged. In fact, Collins had disclosed that. You can view part 1 and part 2 of the interview online. CNN has also published a transcript, as it does for all episodes. BYERS:  Now, everybody in our business makes mistakes,…

• iMediaEthics: Politico is addicted to ‘journalism’s crack cocaine’

  Mark Schaver

  5 May 2013 | 4:35 am

  iMediaEthics says Politico doesn’t appear to follow the ethical standards for anonymous sources followed by other prominent news organizations: Politico, the Washington, D.C.-based political journalism organization, is notorious for using anonymous sources in its reporting and it has taken heat for it before. As Slate‘s David Weigel put it in his recent article Opening Act: Someone Save Politico From Itself, “The people who hate Politico do so because they think it allows anonymous sources to stir sh*t.” Politico made some waves just last week when it published what…

• Howard Kurtz departs the Beast, declines to return calls

  Mark Schaver

  3 May 2013 | 3:22 am

  The New York Times: Mr. Kurtz did not respond to a request for comment. Associated Press: He didn’t respond to a phone message seeking comment. Huffington Post: Kurtz did not respond to several calls and emails seeking comment to clarify his connection to Daily Download and whether he has any ownership interest. Shouldn’t a prominent media critic return a reporter’s calls when he’s the news?

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• More than virtual: real community, many ways of connecting

  AshleyP

  24 Apr 2013 | 3:30 am

  By Karen Dill-Shackleford Mike was a doctoral student profoundly appreciated and esteemed by faculty, peers, staff, and all who came in contact with him. As is typical in our community, Mike was already a successful mid-career professional. He worked in the tech world and brought his expertise to us. He didn’t have a background in research psychology, but in the last year of his doctoral program, his work was published on nine occasions. Nine publications during the last year of graduate school is an incredible feat for anyone. But the heart-wrenching part of the story is that in the last…

• Workplace mobbing: add Ann Curry to its slate of victims

  Alice

  22 Apr 2013 | 12:30 pm

  By Maureen Duffy Journalists want to report the news not be the news. But in the case of Ann Curry, the former Today show co-host who was pushed into stepping down from the co-anchor slot last June, she has become the news. New York Times reporter Brian Stelter’s recent feature article about morning television and the toxic culture at NBC’s Today show provides more than enough information to conclude that Ann Curry was a target of workplace mobbing. Whatever your personal opinions of Curry and her work, she was clearly mobbed out of her Today show job. Workplace mobbing is a process of…

• A day in the life of a London marathon runner

  DanP

  19 Apr 2013 | 5:30 am

  By Daniel ‘pump those knees’ Parker and Debbie ‘fists of fury’ Sims Pull on your lycra, tie up your shoelaces, pin your number on your vest, and join us as we run the Virgin London Marathon in blog form. While police and security have been stepping up after Boston, we have been trawling Oxford University Press’s online resources in order to bring you 26 miles and 375 yards of marathon goodness. Get ready to take your place on the starting line. The reason that you’re about to run a heart-bursting 26 miles is the Greek legend of Phidippides, a soldier and messenger who ran from the…

• Social media and the culture of connectivity

  Alice

  25 Feb 2013 | 5:30 am

  By José van Dijck In 2006, there appeared to be a remarkable consensus among Internet gurus, activists, bloggers, and academics about the promise of Web 2.0 that users would attain more power than they ever had in the era of mass media. Rapidly growing platforms like Facebook (2004), YouTube (2005), and Twitter (2006) facilitated users’ desire to make connections and exchange self-generated content. The belief in social media as technologies of a new “participatory” culture was echoed by habitual tools-turned-into-verbs: buttons for liking, trending, following, sharing, trending, et…

• A Very Short Film competition

  ChloeF

  1 Feb 2013 | 12:30 am

  The Very Short Film competition was launched in partnership with The Guardian in October 2012. The longlisted entries are now available for the public vote which will produce four finalists. After a live final in March, the winner will receive £9000 towards their university education. By Chloe Foster After more than three months of students carefully planning and creating their entries, the Very Short Film competition has closed and the longlisted submissions have been announced. The competition asked entrants to create a short film which would inform and inspire us. Students were free to…

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• How the PCC resolved a complaint about a story The Sun couldn't prove

  Roy Greenslade

  17 May 2013 | 9:17 am

  The Sun published the front page shown above on 13 March. Under one of its trademark headlines, the "exclusive" article stated that Lib-Dem MP Chris Huhne had been ridiculed on his first day in Wandsworth jail.It said a prison officer had called him to breakfast by yelling over the jail's speaker system: "Order! Order!"According to the article, "the mocking warden" mimicked the commons speaker by saying: "The right honourable member for Wandsworth North — down to the office."It also said other prisoners laughed at Huhne, that they had bullied him and that he had been transferred to a wing…

• 'Arrests anonymity' - is it really a denial of press freedom?

  Roy Greenslade

  16 May 2013 | 7:59 am

  The growing official desire to ensure that the police do not identify people who they arrest poses profound questions about the nature of journalism.Before I take up that issue, let's look at where we are in this matter of "arrest anonymity." It is now clear that the home secretary, Theresa May, and her police chiefs are in complete agreement - suspects should not be officially named at the time of their arrest.She argues that arrested people should only be identified if there are "extremely unusual circumstances." This supports the views of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO),…

• Clegg attacks Sri Lanka's 'suppression of press freedom'

  Roy Greenslade

  16 May 2013 | 2:33 am

  Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has attacked the lack of press freedom in Sri Lanka while defending the government's decision to attend a Commonwealth summit in the country.He did so when answering questions in the Commons yesterday from a Lib-Dem party colleague, Simon Hughes.Clegg spoke of unspecified "consequences" if the Sri Lankan government "continue to ignore their international commitments" in the months leading up to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting, due to take place in November.He referred to the "suppression of press freedom" along with "politically-motivated trials"…

• NUJ condemns loyalist threats against Northern Ireland journalists

  Roy Greenslade

  16 May 2013 | 2:08 am

  Threats to two journalists in Northern Ireland by loyalist paramilitaries have been condemned by the National Union of Journalists.The NUJ's general secretary, Michelle Stanistreet, said: "Anyone making threats against journalists for carrying out their work attempts to undermine democracy as well as press freedom. Threats against journalists from any quarter must stop." And the union's president, Barry McCall, called on the people "responsible for the threats to withdraw them immediately and to issue a public statement to that effect." The identities of the journalists are not being…

• Kuwait delays media law after editors raise press freedom concerns

  Roy Greenslade

  16 May 2013 | 12:46 am

  Kuwait has delayed the enactment of a new media law after objections that it threatens freedom of expression and human rights.The government adopted the Unified Media Law in April, which gave the information ministry power to license news outlets.It was expected to be passed by the Kuwaiti parliament this month, but Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak, the prime minister, decided instead to consult editors and journalists after they raised concerns."Kuwait's prime minister deserves praise for spiking this flawed draft law," said Sarah Leah Whitson, the Middle East director at Human Rights Watch (HRW).

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• Help The Mavs Design Our Next Uniform !

  markcuban

  13 May 2013 | 12:08 pm

  The Mavs are going to re-do our uniforms for the 2015-16 season… if we get a unique and original design. What’s the best way to come up with creative ideas ? You ask for them. So we are going to crowd source the design and colors of our uniforms. You know what an NBA uniform looks like. You know what the Mavs colors are for today and the past.  We want some new ideas that stay true to our logo and at least close to our current color schemes. Show us what you got ! How do you participate ? You post your ideas/pictures/graphics/videos/photos directly on this blog.  Yes we want…

• The Dumbest Words In New Media

  markcuban

  10 May 2013 | 2:13 pm

  How many times have we heard someone talk about the future of media and they immediately use their child as an example of what we all will experience in the future. “My daughter will only use a touch screen.” ” My son doesn’t know the difference between the tv and his itouch. He just wants video where and when he wants it.” “My child is addicted to netflix” “My child is…. fill in the blank with a reason why we all should believe the future is what an infant/pre-teen/tween is experiencing and enjoys. I can’t help but laugh at the…

• Want Your Newborn to be an Athletic Superstar ?

  markcuban

  7 May 2013 | 6:46 am

  Well I have no idea how to make sure he or she gets there. But what I do know that is if you have any such aspiration for your soon to be bundle of joy, then there is one thing you must do: You must save the cord blood from your child’s birth. At the Dallas Mavericks we have been diving into any and all advances in medical science that can give us a competitive edge. (The new advanced metrics that will impact the game). I’m not talking performance enhancing drugs, I’m talking proactive analysis and advanced recovery methodologies.  One that is obvious is the use of Stem…

• The Real Problem with the Twitter HackCrash

  markcuban

  2 May 2013 | 9:36 am

  In case you missed it, the @AP twitter account was hacked , which resulted in a tweet that sent markets spiraling down only to recover a few minutes later once it was revealed that the tweet was a fake. Here is more info. Why did the market head lower so quickly ?  This is from Paste Magazine “The events last Tuesday were likely caused by the news-reacting algorithms that are designed to electronically read and interpret machine-readable news,” said in an emailed response by Irene Aldridge, a hedge fund consultant on algorithms and author of High-Frequency Trading: A Practical Guide…

• Sometimes I truly do get GREAT advice from NBA fans

  markcuban

  3 Apr 2013 | 12:14 pm

  I pity Your IGNORANCE all that Money and U still don’t have a CLUE – Brittney Griner born 10/18/1990 Inbox x Gary to Mark.Cuban HOPE YOU READ THIS CUBES , BECAUSE I AM MAKING A POINT ->  Brittney Griner born 10/18/1990(1+0+1+8+1+9+9+0=29 2+9=11 KEEP READING Your Buddy DAN GILBERT was to Ignorant to listen in 2007 , and it cost him LEBRON and a TITLE . http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201202/gary-grinberg-numerology-jeremy-lin-tim-tebow-nba-cleveland-cavaliers Sports Numerology When it comes to Sports , the scouts and G.M. are Paying attention to every Number But the Most…

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• #Podcast: Growing social media communities

  Sarah Marshall

  17 May 2013 | 2:17 am

  Image by Thinkstock This week’s podcast looks at: How Future builds social media communities before launching a new product; How a wedding title retains brides-to-be within their social media communities after their big day; Tips on community building from the Guardian, which this week passed the 1 million followers milestone on its @Guardian flagship account. Journalism.co.uk technology editor Sarah Marshall speaks to: Katherine Radarecht, group publisher at Future  Victoria Joy, online editor at YouAndYourWedding.co.uk, an Immediate Media title Laura Oliver, community manager, the…

• #Tip: Remember these 4 lessons from ‘the digital edge’

  Alastair Reid

  16 May 2013 | 9:23 am

  By KamrenB Photography on Flickr. Some rights reserved. Brian Moritz spent ten years as a news reporter before beginning a PhD focussing on the evolution of journalists’ routines at Syracuse University. As this article from the Knight Foundation-affiliated MediaShift Idea Lab explains, he spent the last semester flying drones, building virtual reality environments and using 3D printers. “The future is here,” he says, and details four key lessons for journalism students to take from living life at the cutting edge of technology. If you have a tip you would like to submit to…

• Twitter tips: How @Guardian reached 1m followers

  16 May 2013 | 7:23 am

  Community manager at the Guardian Laura Oliver explains how the Guardian's flagship Twitter account is managed and shares her tips on community building    

• Study: Advertising revenues up 16% for digital publishers

  16 May 2013 | 7:19 am

  Figures released by the AOP show growth and confidence in the sector in line with previous predictions    

• How to: get started in data journalism

  16 May 2013 | 4:05 am

  Advice from experts and trainers on how to start turning statistics into stories    

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  One Man & His Blog

• Bruce Sterling: the joy and danger of the future

  Adam Tinworth

  16 May 2013 | 4:51 am

  It's a beautiful sunny day, I'm full of cold and I'm distracting myself by reading commentary on NEXT 13 for my work on the conference blog. The talk that seems to have had the most impact - despite being the shortest - was Bruce Sterling's. It was noticable for both its joy in the possibilities of the future and its skepticism about so much of the way it's structured right now. Worth a watch, if you have 15 minutes this lunchtime:

• Le Web London: liveblogging the sharing economy

  Adam Tinworth

  15 May 2013 | 7:25 am

  Gosh, Le Web time already? Yup - it's now held twice a year. Summer's Le Web is held in the UK. While it's smaller than the main Parisian event, it still brings together an inetresting mix of European and intercontinental digerati for two days of discussion and netwoking. And, once again, I'm an official blogger at the event. in three weeks' time I'll be in London for Le Web's UK edition, liveblogging as I normally do. (You can actually see me at work in the front row if you look carefully at the image above from last year...) This year's theme is The Sharing Economy. If you fancy coming…

• A last word on "citizen journalism" - hopefully

  Adam Tinworth

  15 May 2013 | 4:07 am

  Like many opinionated rant online commentators about journalism, I get fairly regular e-mails from students asking for my comments on journalism, blogging and social media. Inspired by Jon Bernstein making his responses to one set of questions public, I've decided to do the same, if only so I can point any future student who wants to ask about this to the post. Because, really, this is probably my last word on "citizen journalism". 1) What are your thoughts on citizen journalism? It's a horribly dated, misbegotten concept from the mid-2000s that really should have died by now. It's the…

• #RSAcommunity - Zachary Neal and the problem of diverse communities

  Adam Tinworth

  13 May 2013 | 6:10 am

  Liveblogged notes of Zachary Neal's talk on community integration and cohesion at the RSA. In this talk he's going to focus on micro networks. Are diverse communities possible? Tha answer's grim: no. But there is a bright side... He's been thinking about community policy in the US; it's fragmented and piecemeal. It's more clearly articulated in the UK. In 2001 the Home Office came out with a report on community cohesion, which lead to the Commission on Integration & Cohesion. In 2010, the Cabinet Office made it clear it was important as part of the Big Society rubric.  This is the right…

• Design Your Day

  Adam Tinworth

  10 May 2013 | 1:20 am

  Interested in productivity, working better and making most efficient use of the digital age? You might want to read this eBook. Design Your Day is part of Nokia's Smarter everyday project, that talks very little about phones and quite a lot about how we could work better - and live better - in a connected, information flow age. I had some small hand in the early stage of the work through some consulting and writing work I did for Brilliant Noise at the tail end of last year and the beginning of this year. There's a much fuller explanation of what it's all about on the Brilliant Noise blog.

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  The American Prospect

• Ringside Seat: Georgia on Their Mind, Causing an Epic Migraine

  Paul Waldman

  17 May 2013 | 2:57 pm

  In the last couple of days, there have been a number of articles (see here or here) about how Republicans, having finally gotten something that resembles an Obama administration scandal, are already worried about overplaying their hand. The sober ones are concerned they might make more of things than the facts merit, lest their nuttiest colleagues grab the spotlight, and head down a dangerous road as they did in 1998. But if there's anything we've learned in the last few years, it's that party leaders may exert influence, but only to a degree; a political party is more like a herd of wild…

• Big Brother Is You, Watching

  Paul Waldman

  17 May 2013 | 12:55 pm

  I stole the title of this post from an essay Mark Crispin Miller wrote 25 years ago about the effects of television, in which he argued that instead of a totalitarian government forcing us to submit through fear and oppression, we'd happily voluteer to be anesthetized by our TVs. Today though, the more proximate danger involves the rise of a kind of universal surveillance where we're being watched through much of our days, by governmental authorities, corporations looking to part us from our money, and each other. It's bad now, and it's only going to get worse. Which brings us to Google…

• Doesn't Anybody Here Know How to Run a Conspiracy?

  Paul Waldman

  17 May 2013 | 9:14 am

  In case you've forgotten, what took Benghazi from "a thing Republicans keep whining about" to "Scandal!!!" was when some emails bouncing around between the White House, the CIA, and the State Department were passed to Jonathan Karl of ABC last Friday. The strange thing about it was that the emails didn't contain anything particularly shocking—no crimes admitted, no malfeasance revealed. It showed 12 different versions of talking points as everybody edited them, but why this made it a "scandal" no one bothered to say. My best explanation is that just the fact of obtaining previously hidden…

• A Few Words about Angelina Jolie's Breasts

  E.J. Graff

  17 May 2013 | 7:20 am

  Angelina Jolie—a woman with some of the world’s most famous breasts—has explained in a thoughtful New York Times op-ed this week why she's had them prophylactically removed and replaced. Jolie’s mother died young, after a decade living with ovarian cancer; when Jolie herself got genetically tested, she learned that she had a BRCA1 genetic mutation that gave her an 87 percent chance of getting breast cancer. To protect her children from losing their mother too young, she opted for surgery, which she describes in some detail. That unexpected mash-up—glamorous Hollywood superstar,…

• Pakistan's Industry of Violence

  Beenish Ahmed

  17 May 2013 | 6:15 am

  AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad I was at an uncle’s house in Peshawar a couple of months ago when the windows began to rattle. One of my youngest cousins walked towards them, peering out nervously. “It’s an earthquake,” she said almost hopefully. I looked at her father who shook his head slowly, but only when his daughter had turned back to the window. It was as if he wanted her to believe that the quivering earth was the result of a mere natural disaster. And then the windows began to clatter again. The 14-year-old slunk onto the couch beside her father. Her sisters and mother filed in…

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  College Media Matters

• Are You an Unemployed Journalism Grad? Start Singing!

  Dan

  18 May 2013 | 12:19 pm

  An unemployed Spaniard twentysomething with a journalism degree and no job has gone viral for singing– yes, singing– about his credentials on the subway. – As The Huffington Post shares, “While a friend filmed, Enzo Vizcaino strummed on a ukulele and serenaded straphangers on the Barcelona Metro. . . . Fortunately, after the video was posted on YouTube and shared widely on social media, the job offers flooded in.” – Check out the video of his performance.  His song is in Spanish, so I’ve included a translation of most of the lyrics below. –…

• Daily Iowan Publisher: ‘Anybody Can Work Here as Long as They’re Not an A**hole’

  Dan

  16 May 2013 | 5:54 am

  Longtime Daily Iowan archivist and librarian Caroline Dieterle is leaving the University of Iowa student newspaper at semester’s end.  Due to digitization, her position is being eliminated. – As Dieterle told the DI for a brief retrospective piece, “I’m not [retiring]. I am being made redundant here with what is being made with technology.  I would be happy enough to file the paper indefinitely as long as I was healthy enough to drag myself down to the newsroom.” – – Her appreciable candor extends to her memories of first obtaining the position in…

• University of Oklahoma Student Media Director Resigns

  Dan

  15 May 2013 | 10:26 am

  Brian Ringer has resigned from his position as director of student mediaat the University of Oklahoma, according to multiple trusted sources at OU. – Most recently, in a brief phone chat, Judy Gibbs Robinson, the editorial adviser to The Oklahoma Daily and OUDaily.com, confirmed, “It is my understanding that Brian has resigned.” – – It is unclear at the moment when he officially tendered his resignation, or if the official part has even yet occurred. But he apparently left the building, literally, yesterday   A student editor at OU described the scene Tuesday…

• Former OU Daily Editor Files Lawsuit Against University of Oklahoma Over Student Parking Tickets

  Dan

  15 May 2013 | 3:44 am

  A former Oklahoma Daily online editor is suing the University of Oklahoma to gain access to student parking ticket records. – Joey Stipek, an OU senior, filed the lawsuit Friday against university president David Boren and Open Records Office director Rachel McCombs.  The suit alleges the school has repeatedly, and illegally, rebuffed his efforts to acquire “records he believes are public”– and potentially newsworthy. – – As he wrote in March, “OU gave out almost 52,000 parking citations last year, then dismissed almost a third of them. But you…

• Student Government to Student Newspaper: ‘If Staff is Passionate, They Should Work at Paper for Free’

  Dan

  14 May 2013 | 3:35 am

  – Student government funding for The Spectator at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania has been cut in half for the next academic year, from $48,000 to less than $24,000.  The financial fallout means a dozen top Spectator staffers will no longer be paid and the paper will publish far fewer copies and possibly less frequently in print– shifting from a weekly to a bimonthly. – Spectator EIC Meagen Finnerty: “Student government officials ‘told us that if our staff members are passionate then they should work at campus media for free.  But for the number of hours we…

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  Reportr.net

• The value of global sharing to musicians

  Alfred Hermida

  4 May 2013 | 6:41 am

  Nancy Baym of Microsoft Research kicked off the session on the transnational dimensions of spreadable media at MIT8.She gave an insight into her research on musicians and international audiences.Her research takes on the two dominant discourses about music audiences. Listeners are viewed as pirates who steal music or as customers who are not paying enough for music.Baym said both are economic metaphors that position musicians as manufacturers and distributors, rather than artists.For her research, Baym wanted to find out how social media has affected the relationship of a musician with their…

• MIT8 panel tackles oversharing and the meaning of privacy

  Alfred Hermida

  3 May 2013 | 10:22 am

  This year’s Media in Transition (MIT8) conference at MIT addresses question of the shifting nature of the public and the private, kicking off with a panel on oversharing.The panel brings together Feona Attwood, Middlesex University (UK), David Rosen, author and Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard University, moderated by Nick Montfort.Montfort introduces oversharing by talking about how people are voluntarily divulging information online that makes other people uncomfortable.He asks why are people willing to share in this way, but also why we usually don’t think that we are the…

• State of the Media 2013 report finds social media ‘indispensable’

  Alfred Hermida

  17 Mar 2013 | 10:02 pm

  Social media has become “indispensable” for journalists, says the latest State of the Media report.The annual report by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism highlights the importance of social media to news organisations. At the time of publication, 184 news organisations had designated social media editors.“In 2012, social media continued to expand its role in the news ecosystem, establishing itself as an indispensable tool for distributing content and attracting new readers, as well as for building deeper engagement with current ones,”…

• BBC College of Journalism introduction to social media

  Alfred Hermida

  24 Jan 2013 | 4:09 pm

  The BBC College of Journalism is a treasure trove of advice, lessons and tips for any budding or experienced journalist.Outside of the UK, it is only available on a subscription basis.The College of Journalism tends to post videos from events on its Youtube channel.But I recently discovered that some of the lessons available through a dedicated website on the main BBC website.Among the videos are various of the use of social media by journalists. The one below provides a good introduction into how BBC journalists are incorporating social media, changing how they report the news.

• 50 essential blogs for journalists

  Alfred Hermida

  23 Jan 2013 | 11:16 am

  The UK journalism site, journalism.co.uk, has put together a list of 50 blogs on journalism.The list  covers “blogging reporters who share their tips and experiences of mobile journalism, blogging journalism educators, and blogging photojournalist.”It is required reading for anyone interested in gaining insight and perpectives on the changing  of journalism.I’m honoured that this blog, Reportr.net, is included on a list. Among the other blogs by journalism educators are Mindy McAdams’ Teaching Online Journalism, Paul Bradshaw’s Online Journalism Blog, Jay…

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  Round Valley Fishing

• 2nd Annual Steve Welgoss Memorial Trout Tournament is this Saturday

  Robert Ivan

  14 May 2013 | 6:59 am

  Last week’s tournament at Round Valley produced some nice sized RVTA Rainbow Trout. If you’re looking to take another crack at winning some money or just bragging rights, the 2nd Annual Steve Welgoss Memorial Trout Tournament will be held this Saturday, May 18th. Visit the RVTA website for more details about the tournament and the RVTA. Tournament starts at 5:30 AM and ends at 3:00 PM Entry $50 per person The post 2nd Annual Steve Welgoss Memorial Trout Tournament is this Saturday appeared first on Round Valley Fishing.

• May 2013 RVTA Fishing Tournament Report

  Zach Merchant

  13 May 2013 | 8:49 pm

  May 2013 RVTA Trout Fishing Tournament Report. This past Saturday, both Rob and I fished the May 11th RVTA trout tournament together in his boat. The day started out cloudy, but warm, and the forecast called for severe thunderstorms. We got a bit of a late start and got onto the water around 6:00 AM, only a half an hour after the start of the tournament, which was at 5:30 AM. We started out trolling lures around the boat launch area for some Brown Trout and Rainbow Trout. Both our lures were about 200 feet behind the boat. Rob was using a YoZuri Pins Minnow in Rainbow Trout colors and I was…

• Reminder: Round Valley Trout Association Tournament Tomorrow Morning

  Robert Ivan

  10 May 2013 | 7:39 pm

  This will be contest 2 of 8. Results from the first Round Valley Trout Association tournament of 2013 in April are here. From the RVTA Website: RVTA runs 8 contests per year. All (including non-members) may participate. Members will accrue Fisher Person of the Year (FPOY) points for each of the contests. You may register the morning of each contest at the top of the concrete ramp. A table will be set up and manned by RVTA members. C’mon out and try it! April 2013 RVTA Tournament Winner John Y. with a 22 3/4″ and 6.44lbs. Rainbow Trout. 2013 Contest Dates April 14- RVTA Fishing…

• May 7, 2013 – Shore Fishing Report

  Zach Merchant

  10 May 2013 | 1:00 pm

  Started off the day yesterday, May 7, 2013 shore fishing with Chris M. at the Millstone River for Pickerel and Bass, nothing except for one follow I got on an F-7 Rapala, Perch pattern, from a decent sized Pickerel.  After about a half an hour or so of fishing there, we headed off to our usual Carp spot to meet Matt for another day of Carp fishing.  After getting our poles into the water, Chris was the first to hook into a fish.  It was definitely a Carp, but got snagged up and lost it before he could get it in.  We were using the same oat and creamed corn mixture as last time we were…

• Carp Fishing Report – April 30, 2013

  Zach Merchant

  2 May 2013 | 7:47 am

  Fished for Carp from about 5:30 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. yesterday, April 30, 2013 with Chris Moran.  We both are very new to Carp fishing to say the least, but we were lucky enough to be able to tag along with a buddy, Matt, for the day. Matt’s been Carp fishing for roughly 7-8 years, so he definitely has the experience and know-how that Chris and I lack in Carp fishing right now.  With that said, I’m not able to disclose the location we were fishing as a request from Matt.  But it was definitely a great spot and gave us an amazing day of fishing.   Chris Moran holds a monster carp…

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  Kirk LaPointe's themediamanager.com:  journalism change, ethics, standards and the public - Media Notes

• media notes 05.17.13

  17 May 2013 | 2:15 pm

  Some media stories of note for Friday, May 17, 2013:Margaret Talbot, writing for The New Yorker online, examines the recent spate of incidents involving the Obama Administration and the press. She argues that they have damaged the credibility of the government and threatened the freedom of the press. An effect, she fears, is the chilling of sources of information who fear their anonymity cannot be protected. The result of that will be fewer stories that explore significant secretive information and a reduction in civil liberties.BBC reports on a new British study of 35,000 young people that…

• media notes 05.16.13

  16 May 2013 | 8:27 am

  Some media stories of note for Thursday, May 16, 2013:It may seem incongruent, but as the White House deals with criticism of the Department of Justice's seizure of phone records for reporters at The Associated Press, it is reviving its efforts to create legislation that would shield reporters' sources and communications from disclosure. The New York Times reports that the President's Senate liaison called Wednesday to ask a Democratic Senator to reintroduce a version of a 2009 bill that didn't make it through Congress.The New Republic explores the context of the DOJ/AP phone-seizure issue by…

• media notes 5.15.13

  15 May 2013 | 9:30 am

  Some media stories of note for Wednesday, May 15, 2013:The Guardian is reporting that China is attempting to curtail the blogging activities of writers and intellectuals by closing their social media accounts. In recent weeks notable social justice critics have been silenced in social media. There were other recent efforts to curtail mainstream media's use of western-based content.The U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, has defended the seizure of telephone records of The Associated Press. The New York Times reports he says the article that prompted the seizure arose from a serious leak of…

• media notes 05.14.13

  14 May 2013 | 8:29 am

  Media stories of note for Tuesday, May 14, 2013:The Associated Press revealed Monday that the U.S. Department of Justice had secretly obtained two months of telephone records for its journalists at several of its operations. AP decried the move as an unprecedented intrusion into the rights of a free press. Details of the probe are not known, but it was believed to be in connection with AP's reporting on a foiled terrorist plot. The New Yorker's John Cassidy looks at the wider political implications of the issue for the Obama Administration.The Bloomberg terminal controversy continues to draw…

• media notes 05.13.13

  13 May 2013 | 10:12 am

  Media stories of note for Monday, May 13, 2013:Bloomberg has found itself in the middle of a controversy in recent days. Its reporters are able to see some, but not vast, information about a client's use of its vaunted terminals. And a complaint was launched that suggested this access was inappropriate and infringed on privacy --- or worse, that reporters might have benefited from the access. The New York Times reported that Bloomberg journalists were trained in how to use the login activity to advance news coverage. Bloomberg's editor-in-chief today responded. Matthew Winkler indicated that,…

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  Nieman Journalism Lab

• The “death” of “tech blogging”?

  Joshua Benton

  17 May 2013 | 12:08 pm

  Robinson Meyer is tweeting up an interesting storm about the “death” of “tech blogging” — tied to Gizmodo’s announcement of some impressive new hires today. To get past the scarequotes, here’s Rob. With @gizmodo’s massive refresh, this feels obvious but worth saying:“Tech blogging”—as the genre was long defined—no longer exists. — Robinson Meyer (@yayitsrob) May 17, 2013 TechCrunch established the “tech blogging” form, when—after going with ~any~ start-up news—it launched a whole blog about phones in ~2006. — Robinson Meyer…

• How is algorithmic objectivity related to journalistic objectivity?

  Joshua Benton

  17 May 2013 | 11:28 am

  Today at New York University, a bunch of smart people are gathered at the Governing Algorithms conference. Algorithms are increasingly invoked as powerful entities that control, govern, sort, regulate, and shape everything from financial trades to news media. Nevertheless, the nature and implications of such orderings are far from clear. What exactly is it that algorithms “do”? What is the role attributed to “algorithms” in these arguments? How can we turn the “problem of algorithms” into an object of productive inquiry? This conference sets out to explore the recent rise of…

• Using the Raspberry Pi to get around newsroom IT

  Joshua Benton

  17 May 2013 | 11:07 am

  Matt Waite — ex-Tampa Bay Times and Politifact, currently professing at the University of Nebraska — promotes the Raspberry Pi as a Trojan horse for newsroom IT. (Trojan horse in the sneaky-way-to-get-around-obstacles sense, not in the malware sense.) Unfamiliar with the Pi? The Model B Pi is a $35 computer that’s about the size of a deck of cards. It’s got an ethernet port, and you supply the hard drive in the form of an SD card, the keyboard, mouse and monitor. Now, for $35, you’re not getting a ton of horsepower, but for simple repetitive tasks it works great. What kind of…

• The value of starting your own news brand — and sponsored content done right

  Joshua Benton

  17 May 2013 | 9:29 am

  This piece at Forbes about Boston journalist Justin Rice is interesting for a few reasons: — It describes how Justin, a few years back, started an independent, no-revenue site called BPSsports that covered high school sports in the urban Boston public schools — something local media wasn’t particularly interested in covering. After building it up, it was scooped up by The Boston Globe, where it lives on as BPS Sports Blog at Boston.com, with Justin still serving as lead writer. It’s a nice example of the value of just starting something and of the opportunities that can open…

• This Week in Review, Spy vs. Spy edition: Backlash against snooping by DOJ and Bloomberg

  Mark Coddington

  17 May 2013 | 7:28 am

  Outrage at seizure of AP records: The journalism and media world was collectively seething in a way you don’t often see this week after the Associated Press revealed that the U.S. Department of Justice had secretly obtained more than two months of phone records from more than 20 of its journalists’ work and home lines. The government hasn’t publicly said what they’re looking for, but it’s widely believed to be part of their investigation into the leaker behind the AP’s story last year about a foiled Yemeni bomb plot. The two best explanations of the…

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  Failure Magazine's Feature Articles

• The Great Flood of 1913

  jzasky@aol.com

  28 Apr 2013 | 2:33 pm

  On March 23, 1913, a series of tornadoes struck the American Midwest. But the twisters were a mere prelude to a greater disaster, one caused by torrential rains.

• Trash Dance

  jzasky@aol.com

  12 Mar 2013 | 3:49 am

  Trash Dance, a critically-acclaimed “trash truck ballet,” illustrates how workers in unenviable low-income jobs have something more to offer — given the opportunity to rise above the drudgery of their daily routines.

• Leonardo and the Last Supper

  jzasky@aol.com

  27 Feb 2013 | 6:19 pm

  At the time of da Vinci’s death in 1519 the Mona Lisa and most of his other paintings were unknown to the world at large — and Leonardo considered himself to have been a failure.

• The Mill River Flood, Disaster

  jzasky@aol.com

  12 Feb 2013 | 4:17 pm

  Silk industry magnate William Skinner lost everything when an inland tidal wave destroyed the company village that bore his name. In “American Phoenix,” author Sarah S. Kilborne recounts the disaster, and how it propelled Skinner to his greatest success.

• When North Carolina was Klansville, USA

  jzasky@aol.com

  1 Feb 2013 | 8:08 am

  In the mid-1960s the United Klans of America had more members in North Carolina than all other southern states combined. But the UKA’s fall was precipitous, thanks to a coordinated policing effort that hindered its ability to organize.

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  Pacific Standard. Smart Journalism. Real Solutions.

• Rural Talent Migration

  Jim Russell

  19 May 2013 | 6:57 am

  Rural America is dying. Rural America is in good company. Half of the countries of the world are experiencing demographic decline. The typical reaction is to plug the brain drain. That doesn’t work. Also, such policies are anti-economic development. Restricting geographic mobility does more harm than good (if it does any good at all). Some communities embrace attraction. Rural Kansas is dangling carrots in front of prospective residents. Such schemes have a poor track record. Luring immigrants, as Iowa has done, is more effective. But what happens if the source country of those…

• Gentrification in Buffalo

  Jim Russell

  18 May 2013 | 9:35 am

  Portland is dying. Buffalo is gentrifying. We live in interesting times: “This is much more though a forced migration that is coming and I think that is the tone that has really upset the neighborhood,” said Ricardo Herrera, executive director of the Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers. The Rust Belt is full of Detroits. The Sun Belt is full of Houstons. What is wrong with the Rust Belt? What is right with the Sun Belt? That’s about the extent of our policy geography. The scale of analysis is too coarse. Mesofacts muddle the picture. I advocate for pulling apart the…

• Portland Is Dying

  Jim Russell

  17 May 2013 | 10:46 am

  What does a dying city look like? Brains are draining. The population is shrinking or aging, or both. Vibrant, creative class cool Portland is the antithesis of dying. Yesterday, journalist Annalyn Kurtz tweets: “See! The Portland labor force lost 25,000 workers in the last year. http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LAUMT41389006.” What in the name of Richard Florida is going on here? The link will take you to the Bureau of Labor page with a bunch of employment data for Portland (select data recreated below). You can see the boom, the fuel for Portlandia. More recently, the labor force…

• Why Everyone Should Have Access to Plan B

  Tamar Krishnamurti and Baruch Fischhoff

  17 May 2013 | 10:00 am

  Last month, Judge Edward Korman ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make the emergency contraceptive, Plan B, available over the counter to people of all ages, rather than requiring prescriptions for those under 17. Last week, he stood by that decision. In his harshly worded ruling, Korman rejected the claim that easier access to Plan B would allow adolescents to make decisions that were beyond their capabilities. The scientific evidence supports his ruling. Indeed, it shows adolescents to be more competent in thinking about their decisions than many people suspect. However, the…

• What Can’t It Do? European Austerity Policies Now Giving the World Anti-Matter, Clones

  Marc Herman

  17 May 2013 | 9:58 am

  Most people associate brain drain with developing nations. The idea being: a country that can’t support its most talented minds will lose them to places that can. Most don’t come back. That’s now happening in southern Europe. Two cases just this week showed how the need to save five figures in salaries now could cost cash-strapped nations nine or 10 figures in valuable research down the line. Earlier this week we heard the ridiculous story of 30-year-old Diego Martinez Santos, a modest genius from Galicia, Spain, who has been doing research in Holland. Santos had just been…

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• Transcript: What’s Going on at Gitmo?

  ProPublica

  17 May 2013 | 3:54 pm

  by Christie Thompson The current hunger strike at Guantanamo has entered its fourth month, with resistance growing to involve 100 detainees. More medics have been flown in to assist with force-feeding 29 inmates, and five are currently hospitalized. The strike began after searches of inmates’ Korans, but has grown into a protest of indefinite detention. “The situation is desperate now. People are fainting with exhaustion every day,” wrote detainee Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel in a recent New York Times op-ed. We’ve covered the details of detainees’ cases, and the…

• How the IRS’s Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional

  ProPublica

  17 May 2013 | 3:14 pm

  by Kim Barker and Justin Elliott May 18: This post has been corrected. The IRS division responsible for flagging Tea Party groups has long been an agency afterthought, beset by mismanagement, financial constraints and an unwillingness to spell out just what it expects from social welfare nonprofits, former officials and experts say. The controversy that erupted in the past week, leading to the ousting of the acting Internal Revenue Service commissioner, an investigation by the FBI, and congressional hearings that kicked off Friday, comes against a backdrop of dysfunction brewing for years.

• Your Hospital May Be Hazardous To Your Health

  ProPublica

  17 May 2013 | 11:15 am

  As part of our ongoing investigation into patient safety, ProPublica reporters Marshall Allen and Olga Pierce produced this interactive story in collaboration with PBS Frontline and Ocupop during a May 11-16 hackathon.

• The Story Behind Our Hospital Interactive

  ProPublica

  17 May 2013 | 11:15 am

  by Tom Detzel Here at ProPublica, we love to find new ways to tell stories. We’ve built data-driven news apps, commissioned our own news songs and crafted narratives with a novelist’s touch, all to enrich our investigative reporting. “Your Hospital May Be Hazardous To Your Health,” co-published today with PBS Frontline, is our newest try at innovation. And it had an unusual gestation – as part of a five-day hackathon that brought together teams of journalists, filmmakers, developers and designers to produce interactive stories for the Web. The piece draws from…

• The Most Important #Muckreads on Rape in the Military

  ProPublica

  16 May 2013 | 7:00 am

  by Christie Thompson May 17: This post has been updated to include the number of men in the military who reported suffering from military sexual trauma. The Pentagon announced this week that a sergeant working in the military’s sexual assault prevention office had been charged with — you guessed it — sexual assault. This news came just a week after the officer in charge of the Air Force’s rape prevention program was arrested for sexual battery.  An estimated 26,000 service members were sexually assaulted in 2012, according to the latest government…

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• Some Native Americans could lose coverage under Affordable Care Act

  susan

  17 May 2013 | 11:26 am

• End-of-Life Bill Sparks Anger, Accusations

  becca_aa

  17 May 2013 | 11:16 am

• Florida's Child Health Care Law Leaves Thousands in Limbo

  osmosis613

  17 May 2013 | 9:40 am

  As the Medicaid expansion became a higher priority for lawmakers, two state bills that would eliminate a five-year waiting period to access a public health insurance program for at least 20,000 lawfully residing poor children failed to pass this year.

• Slap: University of Kentucky Has Threatened A Reporter Before

  William Heisel

  17 May 2013 | 6:00 am

  After Kentucky Kernel reporter Aaron Smith directly called two other students to confirm a rumor and reported their status as new walk-on basketball players in the newspaper, the University of Kentucky barred Smith from covering the school’s annual event where reporters interview team members.

• National Instant Recess Honors Fitness Activist Antronette Yancey

  robwaters

  17 May 2013 | 5:00 am

  What happens when you get up and move 10 minutes each day? Here's a look at how people across the country stopped what they were doing and collectively took Instant Recess to honor Antronette Yancey—physician, scientist, advocate—by exercising in a way she inspired.

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• Interservice rivalry costs taxpayers millions just on uniforms

  Isaac Cubillos

  11 May 2013 | 6:32 am

  The Marines call it pride. Others would say they are so vain and cost taxpayers money, and could cost other American warriors their lives. David A. Fahrenthold of The Washington Post does an excellent job of connecting the dots on how interservice rivalry costs millions of taxpayer dollars to outfit troops with camouflage uniforms. Stories [...]

• CNN doesn’t know the difference between a sailor from a soldier

  Isaac Cubillos

  7 May 2013 | 8:12 pm

  I try to keep a professional approach to my writing on this site, but sometimes, the “argh” just comes out. The other day, I slammed CNN for their coverage of the Air Force aircraft that crashed in Kyrgyzstan. This is the third time in as many days that CNN is just plain stupid to read [...]

• Did something go wrong at CNN, or not?

  Isaac Cubillos

  3 May 2013 | 7:30 pm

  What’s going on at CNN? You would think after their train-wreck coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, that management would be breathing fire down on the on-air personalities to get their acts together. Here’s another example of a TV mouth moving without thinking. CNN’s Erin Burnett is seen questioning an aviation expert about the crash [...]

• The Associated Press jumps the shark; no longer credible

  Isaac Cubillos

  3 May 2013 | 2:45 pm

  This one is a tough one to write; but I’ve been saying it for a long time. The Associated Press no longer can be regarded as a credible news source when it comes to reporting on the military.  Now I’m shouting it out — minus the expletives going through my mind — the AP can [...]

• Sebastian Junger offers reporting course online

  Isaac Cubillos

  30 Apr 2013 | 7:43 am

  Combat correspondent, Sebastian Junger, taught a writing class last fall that is now available online at www.jungervideo.com. He said it’s  a two-hour class that covers pretty much everything he’s learned about writing in the past 20 years.

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• Taking a Newsroom Approach to Content Marketing

  Jeremy Porter

  5 May 2013 | 10:01 pm

  Brands have never cared more about content marketing. It is the hot topic for 2013, as brands look to leverage great content to expand their reach, drive more engagement or improve their search engine rankings – to name a few. Don’t believe me? Search any content marketing related keyword in Google Trends and you’ll find a spike in conversation this year around the topic (the graph to the right is for “content marketing” news headlines). The problem facing most organizations is how to create great content that will get noticed and shared as information volumes…

• Apologies From Journalistics

  Jeremy Porter

  24 Apr 2013 | 11:05 am

  For those of you Journalistics readers who subscribe to our RSS feed, you will have noticed a random headline and spam text was accidentally sent to you yesterday. Our technical resources are looking into the problem – please know that we do not intend to start posting Viagra content on the blog anytime soon. Journalistics will remain committed to bringing you great content about public relations and journalism topics. As always, thank you for reading the blog and let us know if you have any suggestions for content. All the best! where can i buy viagra in canada Related Posts:Making the…

• Your Brand As Media

  Jeremy Porter

  17 Apr 2013 | 9:15 am

  Three years ago, using the “earned, owned and paid” organization for media strategy sounded cool. The earned-owned-paid slide in my presentations generated eyebrow raises, versus the eye rolls that are more common today. Like any good marketing catch phrases, this one has probably run its course. I’m not saying the underlying principles aren’t still incredibly relevant – in fact, they’re probably more relevant today. That’s not the point of this post though… When I first started talking about earned, owned and paid (and no, I was far from the…

• Let Me Ask You a Question

  Jeremy Porter

  5 Apr 2013 | 7:45 am

  It’s much easier to answer questions when you have time to prepare. When you’re being interviewed by a journalist, grilled on the stand a trial, or trying to convince an HR manager to put you through to the next round, it helps to know the questions in advance. More often than not, you won’t have the questions in advance… or will you? As a continuation of my series on messaging and positioning development from earlier this year, I wanted to make my next installment about how you can prepare for interview questions journalists might ask – but this advice could…

• Skills Entry-Level PR Hires Should Have

  Jeremy Porter

  2 Mar 2013 | 4:02 pm

  Three months from now, the class of 2013 will walk across the stage to collect their diplomas and immediately have a panic attack when they realize it’s time to look for that first job out of college. First, let me give you a piece of advice – you have the rest of your life to work, take the summer and explore the world if you have that luxury. That’s something I wish I had done (I started my first job the day after graduation). For those of you that need to get a job – you know, like yesterday – I thought it would be helpful to share my perspective on the skills…

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• The Transferable Skills of a Master

  Pat Hartman

  16 May 2013 | 4:00 am

  When you reason together with a reader, hoping to win that person to your political side, it’s a lot like explaining why your product is superior, in hopes that a sale will result, or like trying to talk someone into an overnight visit, in hope that, well, you know. Persuasive rhetoric is what it’s all about. The ancient Greeks and Romans knew a thing or two about planting ideas in other people’s heads, and throughout the ages, some principles have remained constant. In 1998, a very present-adaptable “how-to” piece was published (and can be downloaded.) At the time, the…

• Mid-Year Review: SEO 2013

  George Williams

  13 May 2013 | 8:33 am

  SEO is a field that experiences a lot of sudden changes. Despite the fact that they often sport cute animal names like Panda, these search-engine algorithm changes can throw strategies into a tailspin. As we prepare to hit the midpoint of 2013, it behooves us to take a look at the current state of SEO. Search Engine Journal asks, Why Does SEO Take So Long? This is an especially good starting point as it addresses some of the more common techniques and why the most common quick fixes can land you in Google’s penalty box rather than on page one of the search results. First Stop:…

• The Unique Charms of Newsblogging

  Pat Hartman

  9 May 2013 | 4:00 am

  For a Social Media Marketing podcast, Michael Stelzner interviewed Joe Pulizzi, founder of the Content Marketing Institute, who reminds us that content marketing has been around for a long time. One of his favorite examples is The Furrow Magazine, published by the John Deere company as a resource and educational tool for farmers. The company’s product, farm machinery, would do its owner no good if rodents ate all the seeds before they could be planted. Pest control and a thousand other subjects could be addressed in The Furrow for the benefit of agricultural entrepreneurs, helping them…

• Who Will Benefit From the “Louisiana Newspaper War”?

  Tatyana Meshcheryakova

  8 May 2013 | 4:00 am

  Although it’s been almost a year since The Times-Picayune started publishing three times a week, you can still see these signs on people’s front lawns in New Orleans. The (Some)Times-Picayune of New Orleans and its digital version, NOLA.com, were in the spotlight last week after their publisher NOLA Media Group announced the launch of a new tabloid that will fill the gap on the days the TP doesn’t publish. At the same time, The Advocate, a Baton Rouge daily, has been bought by a New Orleans businessman who apparently plans to grow the paper’s presence in New Orleans.

• Google Glass: Next Segway or Smartphone?

  George Williams

  6 May 2013 | 4:00 am

  Google Glass, the wearable computer I have written about in some recent posts, has strong potential for both success and failure. I like to think of it as the “Segway vs. Smartphone” issue. Much like the Segway, Google Glass has geek appeal. Like with the Segway, that could well come with the high price tag to create an aura of a “toy of the affluent,” which could kill its widespread adoption. On the other hand, people felt that way about the first cell phones and then the first smartphones. The “elitist” handsets that used to weigh up to 10 pounds were an…

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  Joe Gullo

• White House Releases Benghazi Emails

  Joe Gullo

  15 May 2013 | 2:25 pm

  The Obama Administration has released 100 pages of Benghazi emails. You can read them below: All redactions are from the White House. White House Benghazi Emails by margafret Photo by: Seansie

• Pew: Why People Are Leaving News Organizations

  Joe Gullo

  14 May 2013 | 4:28 pm

  The reason some people leave news organizations is not all that surprising . According to Pew Research Center: “Nearly one-third of Americans abandoned a particular news outlet because it no longer provides the same level of news and information.” In these tough economic times, news organizations have been forced to layoff reporters and other staff members vital to producing quality news content. Without them, there are noticeable holes and gaps in our news reporting. It’s not surprising that another reason people are leaving news organizations is because they are not…

• Blogging Platforms For World’s Top 100 Blogs

  Joe Gullo

  13 May 2013 | 5:29 pm

  According to Pingdom, the most used blogging/CMS platform for the world’s top 100 blogs is WordPress. And that’s up from last year. The list of blogs was gathered from Technorati. Pingdom then identified the blogging platform or CMS the site is using. Their findings show that WordPress is growing popularity with content producers. Last year, according to Pindom, 48% of the top 100 blogs on Technorati used WordPress. I use WordPress for this website. I find its ease of use and the ability to configure and add functionality are excellent features for a CMS. I love the ability to…

• 24 is Coming Back in May 2014

  Joe Gullo

  13 May 2013 | 4:24 pm

  One of my favorite television shows is coming back. According to USAToday, 24 is returning next May with 12 episodes. I’m curious to see how they’re going to write the show in 12 episodes. The first 8 seasons had 24 episodes. Photo by: Jack Bauer Merchandise  

• Waterfront in Burlington, VT

  Joe Gullo

  12 May 2013 | 4:28 pm

  The weather has changed over the past couple day. It went from winter straight to summer and now it feels “fall-like.” We were a little spoiled having temperatures in the middle to upper 70s and sun for almost 2 weeks. I tested out my new telephoto lens for my iPhone today down by the waterfront in Burlington, Vt. I’m very impressed to say the least!

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  Simba Russeau

• Life’s Symphony: The Sufi Message of Multimedia Storytellers

  Simba Russeau

  9 May 2013 | 1:11 am

  Photo Credit: haglundc “Our work is not only to speak to you, to lecture for you, to bring you the Sufi message in the form of books and lectures, but to bring it to you also in music: to play for you, to sing for you, to bring you the truth in the realm of [...]

• Zen and the Sacred Art of Journalism

  Simba Russeau

  29 Jan 2013 | 6:54 am

  Zen Buddhism, Sufism and Hinduism all encourage practitioners to seek out the wisdom of trained mystics and healers to really taste life's pearls. Journalism offers a similar wisdom.

• Believe It or Not, Your Maid is a Healer

  Simba Russeau

  4 Jul 2012 | 1:00 am

  Mistreatment of migrant domestic workers, who play a key role in maintaining your home's melodious note, can lead to dire consequences.

• Migrant Stories Magazine – NATO Issue

  Simba Russeau

  2 Jul 2012 | 8:46 am

  The sample edition of Migrant Stories Magazine went live today. It's about the impact of NATO's Libya intervention on migrant workers, refugees and asylum seekers.

• LEBANON: Memoirs of an Algerian Transsexual

  Simba Russeau

  21 Jun 2012 | 11:23 am

  Threats or prison couldn't dissuade Randa, a pioneer in the Arab world's gay and transsexual movement, from sharing her life story.

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• Icelandic Incest Prevention App Is A Hit

  Kevin Wild

  24 Apr 2013 | 6:32 am

  Incest prevention? There’s an app for that. It seems like there is an app for everything these days — but Iceland has taken it to a whole new level with the introduction of an incest prevention app” created by a group of students at the University of Iceland. “The idea for the incest-prevention feature comes from our culture,” he said. “Accidentally sleeping with a relative has been a running joke in Icelandic culture for a while.” This new app contains a large online genealogical database about the inhabitants of Iceland. Users can bump their phones together to find…

• Elysium, District 9 Sequel Trailer

  Kevin Wild

  16 Apr 2013 | 5:39 am

  It’s been 4 years since fan-favorite movie District 9 hit box offices. Fans have been begging for hints of a sequel since then and today, they got their wish. The new trailer hit YouTube yesterday and outlines the plot of the new movie: Set in the year 2159, where the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds. Unfortunately for fans, prawns weren’t highlighted in the trailer and the producers have yet to confirm if they will be included in the…

• How-To Cure A Hangover .. With An Infographic

  Kevin Wild

  14 Apr 2013 | 6:56 am

  Woke up with a little headache this morning? You don’t have to explain yourself to me, I know just what you need: a cure for your hangover. If you had a little too much fun last night, check out this infographic on hangovers: The post How-To Cure A Hangover .. With An Infographic appeared first on The Hungry and Foolish.

• 15 Random Happy Facts To Get Through Today

  Kevin Wild

  11 Apr 2013 | 5:53 am

  Monkey’s can and have smoked cigarettes (and have been arrested for it too). Someone, somewhere is getting lucky at this very moment. At one point, everyone was the youngest person alive. There’s always a new kind of food that you haven’t tried before. Yawning IS contagious. .. and so is smiling. Most children born this year will see the year 2100. Only 10 percent of your happiness comes from external circumstances. The dot that appears over this “i” is called a tittle. The average person laughs more than 15 times everyday. There are coffee flavoured PEZ. Blind…

• Roger Ebert Has Passed Away At The Age of 70

  Kevin Wild

  5 Apr 2013 | 6:05 am

  “What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: curious and teachable.” - Robert Ebert, Rest in peace. The post Roger Ebert Has Passed Away At The Age of 70 appeared first on The Hungry and Foolish.