Archive for September, 2011
Fox News Fox Newser Judith Miller took Poynter’s free online course titled “Covering Islam in America,” then graded it “mediocre.” She complains that “the implicit message” of the course is that the 3,000 9/11 deaths have been over-covered, and… Read more
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Google News UK has had a makeover. The site today (Friday, 30 September) launched a new Editors’ Picks feature, enabling publishers to highlight content within Google News; and several new features, including increased personalisation of the site. Editors’ Picks is a new section of the Google News homepage, displaying original content that publishers have selected as highlights from their publications.
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Huffington Post UK Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger said Friday that social media does not substitute for professional reporting: I think Twitter is a wonderful medium, but in the end there are people represented in this audience tonight and they are … Read more
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Over on Journalism.co.uk’s event site for news:rewired , technology correspondent Sarah Marshall runs through ten free collaboration tools for journalists, to enable journalists to work with each other creatively. Tools on the list include online video editing platform Stroome, data social network BuzzData and sharing document platform DocumentCloud. See the post in full here
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1. Orwell Prize will not pursue Hari over failure to return money 2.
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Who? Ruud Elmendorp Where
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Media Matters In an interview with Joe Strupp about the Times’ political coverage, Executive Editor Jill Abramson criticizes some news outlets’ — she doesn’t say which ones — emphasis on campaign minutiae: “My word for some of that news is ‘scooplets.’ … Read more
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Committee to Protect Journalists The Committee to Protect Journalists says the killing of a Mexican journalist in Nuevo Laredo on Saturday marks the first documented case of murder “in direct retaliation for journalism posted on social media.” María Elizabeth Macías Castro’s… Read more
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The Boston Globe The Globe has decided to extend the free trial period for its new paid site, BostonGlobe.com, until mid-October.
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Falls Church News-Press Delegates at this week’s Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) convention in New Orleans voted 85-71 to uphold the national board’s decision to retire the Helen Thomas Award. The SPJ move was in reaction to Thomas Read more
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