March 2012
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QMI covers trial with branded Twitter account
Perhaps taking a page from our neighbours to the south, the London Free Press and QMI Agency have decided to cover the Michael Rafferty trial with a branded Twitter account (@RaffertyLFP) instead of using reporters’ personal Twitter accounts to live tweet the proceedings.
Many Florida-area newspapers and TV stations did the same thing when they covered the Casey Anthony trial last summer.
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February 2012
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Muck Rack: On Twitter, should journalists... →
muckrack:
In the wake of Sky News announcing it was clamping down on its social media policy, a lot of the Twitterati have publicly criticized the news broadcaster’s decision.
One of the main points to come out is that Twitter and other social media platforms are about working together with sources and…
January 2012
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Initials B.B.: An editor's advice to young... →
Young journos take note. This post is full of good advice. Read it, learn it, live it.
basemboshra:
I’ve been thinking a lot about young journalists lately. Maybe it’s simply because I’ve been invited to speak to some journalism classes in the past few months and have been impressed by how many bright, intelligent and ambitious young people still want to be part of an industry that few...
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Five resolutions for journalists in 2012
At the start of last year, I wrote a piece for the Toronto Star’s intern blog with some resolutions for journalists.
The resolutions were:
Journalists should be wary of what they tweet;
One should always spell check before clicking “publish;”
One should not just social media source, but also talk to people in the “real” world;
One should have a life outside of...
December 2011
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The accountability of online news
A piece in the Toronto Standard today this week demands more accountability for online news. Amelia Schonbek uses CBC’s Rob Ford called 911 and used the F-bomb story (from almost two months ago) as a way to illustrate her point that online news is not accountable enough to its readers.
(F)ew have discussed a potentially more serious issue: the manner in which CBC.ca published and revised...
September 2011
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“Most of us learned about the events of that day in one of four ways — by...”
– Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth on how 9/11 would have been “more horrific” if social media existed at that time. (via Poynter)
August 2011
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July 2011
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Amazing journalism. A must read piece. →
mrdirkadirka:
This is probably the saddest, yet well written pieces I’ve ever read. I hope to be able to produce something close to this caliber someday. Rocked me to the core. Long, but definitely worth the read.
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So about that Google+ thing...
Is Google+ the higher education of social networking?
That’s the thought that came to me tonight as I logged on to my Google+ account. I stared at my newsfeed stream for a few minutes when I noticed something.
Barring a few exceptions, a lot of the people I follow circle(?) are posting to Google+ ways the site can be used, what it’s good for, what makes it great.
That got me...
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Sun Media ditches press council, citing issues... →
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“What it really comes down to, I think, is that he was in a hurry and didn’t want...”
– Max Fawcett in response to Kai Nagata’s Why I Quit My Job blog post.
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“It’s a vicious cycle, and it creates things like the Kate and Will show....”
– 24-year-old Kai Nagata, who was CTV’s Quebec City Bureau Chief up until last Thursday when he quit. He posted a 3,000-word explanation as to why he on his blog yesterday. (A follow up post his here.)
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“If you happen to be reading this article online, you’ll notice that right...”
– From Neil Strauss’ article “The Insidious Evils of ‘Like’ Culture” in The Wall Street Journal. And yes, I’m aware how ironic it is that I am sharing that article with you, but he makes some good points. So go read it, just don’t like it.
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Why can't journalists spell? →
That’s the question 23-year-old Danielle Ryan asked in a recent blog post of hers, quoting an article in the Irish Times:
It is a sad day when journalism schools need to teach basic English grammar and spelling.
“When we talk about declining literary standards … what I mean is that in the context of everybody having a B in honours English, which is a high standard, there is a...
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Cameraman live-tweets the ITV Evening News
Interesting use of a Storify post if I ever saw one.
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June 2011
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WatchA behind-the-scenes look at being on-the-scene for the Rod Blagojevich verdict from the City Room blog of public radio station WBEZ in Chicago. And to think, before this I only knew WBEZ for giving us This American Life.
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Why I will no longer work for free →
This article is written by Bethany Horne, who just finished her bachelor of journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax.
She writes (emphasis mine):
I had to do an internship, to earn the right to graduate, so I didn’t fret over the ethical implications at the time.I do, now. Because my friends who had to do a short internship to graduate are now doing summer-long or...
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The shot that nearly killed me: War photographers... →
As a photographer, you feel helpless. Around you are medics, security personnel, people doing good work. It can be agonisingly painful to think that all you’re doing is taking pictures.
A breathtaking article from the Guardian. Make sure to also check out the photogallery — wow.
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Is 'checkbook journalism' the new normal? →
An interesting article in the New York Times about the so-called “checkbook journalism” that seems to be running rampant at U.S. television networks today. The article comes on the heels of ABC paying up to $15,000 to get photos from Meagan Broussard — one of the women who sent Anthony Weiner photos of herself (and ABC anchor Chris Cuomo defending the payout).
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“Of course I was in the wrong. I made a horrible decision at 1am when I was...”
– Paige Wiser, who was fired by the Chicago Sun-Times after fabricating facts in her review of Glee Live. Wiser had worked at the paper for 17 years.
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“There was a point we considered naming her or using her Twitter name because her...”
– St. Petersburg Times staff writer Ileana Morales to Poynter, about the paper’s decision to quote tweets by a woman who had allegedly been assaulted and tweeted about it, but did not name her or link to her Twitter account.
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Small Town Journo: STJ's Social Media Rule No. 1 →
Love this. Great advice.
mvhannigan-smalltownjournalist:
Rule 1: Never Tweet, Facebook or post anything that you wouldn’t put in the print edition.
I’m not talking about the AP Stylebook here and I am not talking about needing a complete story. Great social media - and great conversation starters on your network - can come from a single fact or…
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Julian Assange wins Martha Gellhorn Prize for... →
Does this make Julian Assange a journalist?
peoplesmovement:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been awarded the 2011 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.
The prize is awarded annually to a journalist whose work has “penetrated the established version of events and told and unpalatable truth that exposes establishment propaganda, or…
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“In a do-what-you-do-best-and-link-to-the-rest ecosystem, if someone else has...”
– Jeff Jarvis on the article as luxury or byproduct and the changing paradigms of journalism in the age of the social web. (via curiositycounts)
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“If we were a newspaper and someone threw a small bomb through the window,...”
– Judy Woodruff writes about this week’s hacking attacks on PBS websites and overcoming efforts to silence a free press. (via newshour)
May 2011
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What I Learned In Joplin
All of Brian Stetler’s Joplin coverage for the New York Times was really, really neat. This is a great wrap by Stetler on it.
thedeadline:
I’m going to write this in a stream of consciousness, the same way I experienced Joplin.
It was my first time covering — more accurately, trying to cover — a disaster. The National desk knows I am a weather geek, so I came close to covering the...
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“I am not a Twitter celebrity by any means. I barely had over 1,000 followers...”
– From Amber Karnes’ really smart and insightful blog post, Anatomy of a Trending Topic: How Twitter and the Crafting Community put a Smackdown on Urban Outfitters. A must-read about the Urban Outfitters brouhaha that occurred on Twitter yesterday.
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WatchMy colleague Jayme Poisson wrote a story last weekend about a couple that is raising their youngest child without a gender (only a handful of people know if Storm is a boy or girl). Jayme appeared on the Today show Thursday. Way to go Jayme!
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“In 2010, Web advertising in the United States surpassed print advertising for...”
– Five myths about the future of journalism - The Washington Post (via matthewhayles)
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“Many (Montreal) Gazette readers will have read or heard about the New York Times...”
– Montreal Gazette publisher Alan Allnutt announcing the paper’s new paywall, which starts today. (Fellow Postmedia paper the Victoria Times Colonist is also following suit.)
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