May 2013
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Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting: Press Freedom... →
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This week the Associated Press announced that the Justice Department had seized phone records for over twenty AP lines over a two-month period, sparking outrage from journalists across the nation.
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“There’s never anything on my table except the newspapers. I am addicted to them...”
– Hilary Mantel (via frontofbook)
Well, that’s one way of putting it.
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Research notes: A new way for data journalists to... →
mattwaite:
One of my old jokes is that newsroom IT puts the No in Innovation, so I’m always on the lookout for ways to get around them. And I’ve been playing around with a good one: The Raspberry Pi.
This looks like a really interesting tool. Data journalists, take note.
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“Who in the newsroom will speak up the next time there’s a story that produces...”
– Farai Chideya, “How to Fix Journalism’s Class and Color Crisis” (via thenationmagazine)
A problem many newsrooms need to fix.
Longreads: Students, Professors: We Want Your Best... →
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Throughout May and June, a new generation of reporters, writers, editors, and essayists make their way out of school and into the professional world. They come bearing clips, work samples produced for class or during an internship. Hundreds of media outlets at colleges and universities across…
Here’s some Work for the Weekend, now in its third installment!
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Lessons From Amy's Baking Company: Six Things You... →
Whether you’re representing a company, cause or just yourself, it’s probably best to learn from others’ mistakes rather than mess up as badly as these people did.
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“Groups with the same membership fall into patterns and habits that can...”
– Jill Geisler, with tips on how to foster creativity in newsrooms - read more on Poynter.
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Encouraging Financial Literacy at a Young Age →
On Tuesday, Dr. Jeanette Betancourt, Sesame Workshop’s Senior Vice President, Outreach and Educational Practices, had the opportunity to participate in the Financial Literacy and Education Commission Public meeting at the Department of the Treasury in Washington, D.C.
Here’s an awesome thing Sesame Street is doing. This isn’t journalism, per se, but it’s useful information to...
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“But guidelines aren’t laws — the Justice Department’s guidelines, like North...”
– Al Tompkins, in “Why the Justice Department ‘better have a damned good explanation’ for seizing AP phone records,” on Poynter today.
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“At Bloomberg, reporters could sit at their desks and use a keyboard function to...”
– David Carr, Snooping and the news media: it’s a two way street (via soupsoup)
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New research finds 92 percent of time spent on... →
So, uh, maybe Poynter should publish a newspaper and not focus solely on online news?
(Oh wait - we do.)
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What journalists need to know about the Justice... →
Here’s a rundown of what we know so far.
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So who's making money publishing on the web? -... →
New media companies — from Gawker to Buzzfeed — have sprung up to feed every niche (and then some). Which are actually profitable?
Good question.
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“We have reporters around the world who are willing to go anywhere to find a good...”
– Welcome to ‘Parallels,’ NPR’s International News Blog (via npr)
This looks very exciting!
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“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the...”
– Gary Pruitt, President and CEO of the Associated Press, in a letter (PDF) to US Attorney General Eric Holder.
The News, via the AP:
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top...
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“We thought, ‘Hell, we can do that,’ ” Dan Zedek, assistant managing editor at...”
– Want to know more about ebooks? Read all about them at Poynter (and then go read a few, for fun.)
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Reading List: Mother's Day
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Emily Perper is a freelance editor and reporter, currently completing a service year in Baltimore with the Episcopal Service Corps.
With Mother’s Day on the horizon, I chose “mothers/relationship with moms” as the theme of my list this week:
1. My Mom (Mary H. K. Choi, Aeon, April 2013)
A deceptively simple title belies a gorgeous, funny, sometimes dark essay in which Choi attempts...
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The Pittsburgh Press - French Voting of Giscard,... →
Today’s Historical Headline: May 10, 1981: Mitterrand elected as the first Socialist President of the Fifth French Republic.
Today’s headline comes from the Pittsburgh Press - Mitterrand was elected on this day in 1981, but the newspapers from that day that were printed in the morning spoke of the election before it happened. That’s a bit different from how news outlets can...
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“Arguing that the muscle of daily newspapers would let the Kochs deal unions and...”
– Andrew Beaujon (@abeaujon), writing in “Why news will survive the Koch Brothers,” at Poynter today. For those who fear the Koch Brothers’ entry into media: all is not lost. For those who aren’t worried: good call.
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7 Things That Kill Your Productivity at Work →
Read more about productivity at Forbes.
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“You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You...”
– Warren Buffett, on why productive people have empty schedules (via fastcompany)
The next installment on our (brief) series in productivity.
“At 10:30 Darwin returned to his study and did more work until noon or a quarter...”
– Darwin’s daily routine (via explore-blog)
Expect some advice on productivity today.
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Fast Company: We're looking for an intern! →
fastcompany:
Fast Company seeks a paid intern for the Summer 2013 session. Responsibilities include fact-checking all areas of the magazine, contributing supplementary reporting to features, pitching and writing for front of book sections, with opportunities to contribute to Fast Company web properties…
Want to work for Fast Company? Here’s another application!
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Ducklings saved after crossing turns deadly →
A sad start to this story, but the ending is happy. And we figure there should be something nice to read about on a Thursday evening.
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“It is in our nature to need stories. … Any story we tell of our species, any...”
– Jag Bhalla considers the evolutionary basis of storytelling. Also see The Storytelling Animal and complement with Kurt Vonnegut on the shapes of stories. (via explore-blog)
An interesting look at why we like storytelling; here’s what Roy Peter Clark had to say on the art in a live chat at... 