Andrew Beaujon reports on the media for Poynter Online. He was previously arts editor at TBD.com and managing editor of Washington City Paper. He's the author of the 2006 book "Body Piercing Saved My Life," about Christian rock and evangelical Christian culture. He lives in Alexandria, Va., with his family. His email is abeaujon@poynter.org, his phone number is 703-594-1103, and he tweets @abeaujon.
Andrew Beaujon
May 22, 2013
3:45 pm
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May 22, 2013
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May 22, 2013
12:52 pm
Gregory J. Millman writes about the IRS nabbing his phone records in 1991: “Outside the DOJ, any law-enforcement entity with subpoena power can obtain phone records without notice.”
To this date, I do not know how many of my phone records, covering what period of time, went to the investigator working on both the IRS and DOJ investigations of a tax story published in 1991. The government never told me and the telephone company refused to release the information. I never again phoned my sources on that story. Maybe that’s what people mean by “chilling effect.”
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Gregory J. Millman, The Wall Street Journal
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Andrew Beaujon
May 22, 2013
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Andrew Beaujon
May 22, 2013
9:13 am
Adam Cole is not an "Arrested Development" superfan: "I have friends who are much more into it than I am," the NPR reporter said in a phone interview. But Cole took a scientist's eye to the cult television series, which will be resurrected Sunday after its 2006 cancellation.
Cole's employer, NPR, presented his data Friday in an insanely complex news app called "
Previously, on Arrested Development." The app lets you delve into, say, how many times Tobias "giggles ambitiously," or do a deep dive into
Buster and missing limbs.
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Cole originally envisioned a static graphic, saying that "I didn’t think I would bring this to work. I thought it would be a fun thing." But he added that when Netflix announced it would revive the series, "I was like, 'Wow, this is as good a peg as I’m ever gonna get.' "
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May 21, 2013
10:40 am
AP photographer Sue Ogrocki talks about photographing children at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday.
In the 30 minutes that I was outside the destroyed school, I photographed about a dozen children pulled from the rubble.
I focused my lens on each one of them. Some looked dazed. Some cried. Others seemed terrified.
But they were alive.
I know that some students were among those who died in the tornado, but for a moment, there was hope in the devastation.
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Sue Ogrocki, Associated Press
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Andrew Beaujon
May 21, 2013
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Andrew Beaujon
May 20, 2013
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May 20, 2013
11:31 am
At Columbia Business School Sunday, New York Times Co. President and CEO Mark Thompson spoke to new MBAs about “conventional wisdom and all the apparently excellent advice that flows from it.”
Take my industry. The movies are finished. TV advertising is dead. Exactly what happened to music will happen to TV. Nobody wants news anymore. No one will ever pay for anything on the internet. Not just said, but said widely and widely believed. And – for the most part and within the time horizon which the prophets themselves were suggesting – just plain wrong.
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Jeff John Roberts, Paid Content
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Andrew Beaujon
May 20, 2013
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