As the candidates for president debate in the press over weighty topics like taxes and health care, their wives are waging their own campaigns in women’s and celebrity magazines to show voters their spouses’ softer sides. “Election time, they really want coverage,” said Ellen Levine, editorial director at Hearst Magazines, who has edited Woman’s Day, […]
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As fall semester 2012 moves toward mid-term, journalism education is gathering its defenses against assaults on its relevance. Emory College announced last month that it is closing its program because journalism falls outside the school’s emphasis on liberal education, according to Arts & Sciences College Dean Robin Forman. “It’s not our job, […]
It is exactly a year since the launch of Apple's iOS 5 and with it came Newsstand, an in-built app for the iPad and iPhone giving consumers empty shelves reminiscent of the real-world newsstand, to be filled with their selection of magazines and newspapers. Publishers had been creating iPad editions for some time, but the […]
The BBC's news coverage of religion, immigration and Europe is to be scrutinised in an independent review following accusations of liberal bias. Lord Patten, the BBC Trust chairman, said the review was an acknowledgment of "real and interesting" concerns from some quarters about the impartiality of the BBC's news coverage. The corporation has long […]
In 2012, it is not enough for candidates to shake some hands, kiss a baby or two and run some TV ads. They also need to be posting funny little animations on the blogging site Tumblr. If the presidential campaigns of 2008 were dipping a toe into social media like Facebook and Twitter, their 2012 […]
Consider this the second of three installments in what I’m calling The False (And True) Dilemmas In Finding Your News Industry Business Model. Last time it was the question of B2B vs. B2C. Next time it will be paid vs. free. For this post, my true-and-false dilemma is content quality vs. content quantity From corporate […]
The first presidential debate was the most tweeted US political event in history. Does it matter According to Twitter, more tweets were sent about the first US presidential debate between Republican nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama than any other political event in the United States. That's not saying much, considering that Twitter didn't […]
THE arrest of a senior executive rarely brings helpful headlines. But when Brazilian authorities briefly detained Google's country boss on September 26th-for refusing to remove videos from its YouTube subsidiary that appeared to breach electoral laws-they helped the firm repair its image as a defender of free speech. Two weeks earlier those credentials looked […]
Today's PBS NewsHour– the offspring of Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer's evening offering of reasoned appraisals of events here and abroad, dating in its earliest incarnation to the mid-1970s — is one of journalism's most respected institutions. Attracting a nightly audience of about a million viewers, and with an increasingly active presence on the Internet, […]
Multiple news organizations have recently found themselves in the middle of plagiarism and fabrication scandals – NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Wired and The Boston Globe to name a few. Last week, Penn State's student newspaper The Daily Collegian suspended a writer for plagiarizing and fabricating quotes by Sue Paterno, the widow of former coach […]
Multiple news organizations have recently found themselves in the middle of plagiarism and fabrication scandals – NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Wired and The Boston Globe to name a few. Last week, Penn State's student newspaper The Daily Collegian suspended a writer for plagiarizing and fabricating quotes by Sue Paterno, the widow of former coach […]
The Boston Globe is looking to borrow some of MIT’s toys to change the way it reaches readers and reports on the community. Thanks to $250,000 in funding from the Knight Foundation, the two Boston-area institutions will be working closely on practical ways to innovate within the newsroom. What the Globe gets is access to […]
This election season has continued online news' march toward video – particularly video produced by news organizations that haven't historically been known for it. Here's a look at how three major U.S. newspapers treated the political conventions as an opportunity to produce video that isn't television. "None of the things we're doing now even existed […]
Is there a quality argument to support the digital ads-only model? Pretty soon, proponents of free digital news will have to own up to the implications of their model. The structure is flawed. To rely on online ads as the sole source of revenue is both unsound in theory, and in practice it's having disastrous […]
The many tributes to Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who died Saturday, have prominently included his defense of the nation's First Amendment freedoms and the Jeffersonian ideal of a free and independent press, and rightly so. Saving The New York Times from near-collapse in the 1970s by strengthening its financial base and diversifying its content was […]
I received an intriguing email alert last week from ProPublica – the nonprofit organization that, according to its mission statement, does "journalism in the public interest." The email announced that ProPublica's "nursing home inspection" tool now has a completely searchable database of "140,000-plus" reports from government inspections of these facilities for seniors, many of […]
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams acknowledged Monday that available metrics like follower counts are not great measures of success. At a panel discussion in New York hosted by BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti, Williams said the follower count "doesn't capture your distribution. … The dream metric is how many people saw your tweet." And coming from Williams, […]
Arthur Brisbane’s New York Times email address has been shut off, and he sounds pretty happy about it. “I’m trying to decompress,” he told me two days after his stint as the fourth public editor of The New York Times came to an end. “…Yesterday and today are the first two working days that I […]
On Saturday night at the Howlin’ Wolf club in downtown New Orleans, they gathered to say goodbye. There were newspaper hats, brass instruments, toasts, rants, old friends who had not seen one another in years and recent co-workers who might not be seeing one another for a while. New Orleans is famous for marking […]
Federal regulators are about to take the biggest steps in more than a decade to protect children online. The moves come at a time when major corporations, app developers and data miners appear to be collecting information about the online activities of millions of young Internet users without their parents' awareness, children's advocates say. Some […]