"Nobody should condone the behaviour of parts of the press that led to the Leveson inquiry," said an editorial in yesterday's Sunday Times. But the point is that virtually all of the non-hacking press, including the Sunday Times, did condone it. They did not investigate the widespread claims of hacking when the story first […]
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The Huffington Post has compiled and mapped news reports of gun-related homicides and accidental deaths in the U.S. since the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. For 98 days, a team of Huffington Post researchers scanned news reports from around the country and added them to a spreadsheet to be sorted by date, city and […]
Back in January, media types blogged and tweeted their witticisms when a memo sent by Quincy Patriot Ledger and Brockton Enterprise Publisher Chazy Dowaliby leaked. “We will no longer be able to supply coffee service in our newsrooms,” Dowaliby told her employees. “We will not be able to provide paper plates, plastic cutlery, cups […]
The lineup of characters ran in the left column of the Playbill, one name after another of people from my younger life in the city’s tabloid newspapers. Mike McAlary and Michael Daly, columnists. John Cotter and Hap Hairston, editors. Bob Drury, reporter. Also, me, a member of the standing army of columnists. Down the […]
This week, Apple finally announced support for two-step verification for both the iCloud and AppleID. Now, users must use a second device to input a special code in order to access account specifics and iTunes purchases. It may seem like a small, or even unnecessary step, but type as fast as you can to […]
It’s no secret that one of the keys to being a successful journalist these days is mastering the art of combing the Internet. And, a large portion of finding great stuff on the Internet relies on properly and efficiently utilizing clever tools that elevates your online skills from “great” to “practically superhuman.” Chrome is […]
You’ve run spell-check and closely studied your story. Your editors have done the same and the copy desk — the last line of defense against mistakes — has scrutinized every word and line to ensure error-free copy. And then the worst happens. You pick up the newspaper or open your online story. A mistake, […]
Pfc. Bradley Manning is charged with espionage. Why not Julian Assange? It looks as if Pfc. Bradley Manning and Julian Assange will go down in history as outliers, not trend setters. There have been no copycat leaks of massive quantities of diplomatic and intelligence documents, despite how easy the Internet makes it to leak […]
ONE of the largest agencies on Madison Avenue, McCann Erickson New York, is ramping up its efforts in social media to reflect the rapidly growing interest among marketers in reaching consumers through platforms like Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter and blogs. A division of McCann Erickson New York that specializes in social media, which was […]
There is light and shade in a successful paid content business model. It's not as simple as turning on the paywall and counting the cash – the New York Times' hybrid model is constantly evolving, based on science and market evidence. With 640,000 digital subscriptions, it's doing something right. As Paul Smurl, VP of […]
If you’ve been following the media industry over the past year, you probably don’t need anyone to tell you the waves of disruption continue to increase in both height and frequency. The news that widespread cutbacks have caused dissatisfied readers to flee shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. But while those waves have […]
Last week, I examined why news organizations aren’t using plagiarism detection services to root out literary thieves. Technology has a role in helping prevent and detect plagiarism, but it’s by no means a panacea. Good habits and best practices can help avoid and detect plagiarism (and fabrication). The challenge is that, to my knowledge, […]
Staff members at NBC’s “Today” show huddled for a performance review last month, 10 months after the longtime morning show leader first fell behind ABC’s “Good Morning America” in the ratings. The mood was anxious, according to several attendees, as network executives discussed the findings from focus groups with hundreds of viewers. The employees […]
That future is coming into focus. While many publishers’ vision is still quite blurry, it’s the Financial Times that is clearest-eyed about its roadmap and its future. The FT’s clarity first struck me when I sat down for an introductory talk with FT.com managing director Rob Grimshaw in London in fall 2009. His office, […]
Pope Francis gives his first press conference today but he will not give interviews. He does not like the press. "Journalists", he said once "risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia". In case your Greek is deficient, this means that we love shit and encourage others to consume it. So are we […]
It was the kind of reaction usually reserved for when the presses at a venerable newspaper are switched off or a much-loved television series is scrapped. Outrage reverberated across the internet and twittersphere on Wednesday after Google announced that Google Reader, its influential service collating feeds from news sites and blogs, would be shut […]
For the past week Washington has found itself debating Bob Woodward. The occasion: his very public argument with White House senior official Gene Sperling, in which Woodward left the impression that Sperling had somehow tried to intimidate him—only to see this accusation undermined by the release of an email exchange in which the pair […]
Kenneth Cukier, coauthor of “Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think,” applies his findings to his position as data editor of The Economist Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier published their joint tome on big data this week, Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work […]
In early 2010, Pfc. Bradley Manning methodically uploaded a digital mother lode of classified United States military and diplomatic documents to the Internet insurgents of WikiLeaks. As everyone knows, WikiLeaks made these secret archives available to a few major news outlets, including this one. Many illuminating and troubling stories were published, and Washington has […]
Journalism DEADLINE ARTISTS Scandals, Tragedies, and Triumphs: More of America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns Edited by John Avlon, Jesse Angelo & Errol Louis Overlook. 399 pp. $29.95 In 2011, Overlook Press came out with “Deadline Artists,” one of the greatest collections of newspaper articles ever compiled. The volume included Bob Considine’s breathless account of Joe […]