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 16, 2013
11:11 am
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Andrew Beaujon
May 16, 2013
9:56 am
The Associated Press held its story about a foiled underwear bombing for five days, Carol D. Leonnig and Julie Tate report in The Washington Post. But on Monday, May 7, "CIA officials reported that the national security concerns were 'no longer an issue,'" they write. Then the
government began jostling with AP over who would get to break the story.
When the journalists rejected a plea to hold off longer, the CIA then offered a compromise. Would they wait a day if AP could have the story exclusively for an hour, with no government officials confirming it for that time?
Then an administration official called, saying, "AP could have the story exclusively for five minutes before the White House made its own announcement. AP then rejected the request to postpone publication any longer."
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Andrew Beaujon
May 15, 2013
3:32 pm
Time |
USA Today |
CNN |
The Daily Caller
Angelina Jolie will appear on the cover of Time's new issue, out Friday, with a story by Alice Park and Jeffrey Kluger about how her revelation that
she had a double mastectomy "puts genetic testing in the spotlight."
The cover picture was taken before Jolie's surgery, Time spokesperson Kerri Chyka tells Poynter.
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Andrew Beaujon
May 15, 2013
1:33 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
May 15, 2013
11:30 am
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Andrew Beaujon
May 15, 2013
10:13 am
Columbia University announced Wednesday that Tampa Bay Times chairman and CEO Paul Tash will chair the Pulitzer Prize board. Tash became a member of the board in 2006. Chairmen serve for one year, while board members serve a maximum of nine years.
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- Tash in 2011. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Tash, a former editor of the Times, replaces Denver Post Editor Gregory Moore and New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, who served as co-chairs.
Poynter owns the Tampa Bay Times; Tash is also chairman of Poynter's board of trustees. The Tampa Bay Times' Tim Nickens and Daniel Ruth
won a Pulitzer last month for a series of editorials on fluoride in drinking water, and its writers Alexandra Zayas and Kelley Benham were finalists in two other categories. The paper has nine Pulitzers.
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Andrew Beaujon
May 15, 2013
10:03 am
The Department of Justice's
secret seizure of Associated Press phone records was a topic of two well-covered press conferences Tuesday, and it will certainly be
discussed again at Attorney General Eric Holder's
scheduled appearance before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday.
DOJ's legal justification for the move requires further scrutiny. While the government hasn't said what it's investigating, it has addressed some of the technical aspects of its remarkable incursion into a news organizations' records.
• Justice Department policy "provides that we should issue subpoenas for phone records associated with media organizations only in certain circumstances," Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole
wrote in a letter to AP CEO Gary Pruitt Tuesday.
"We are required to negotiate with the media organization in advance of issuing the subpoenas unless doing so would pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation." Justice, he wrote, "undertook a comprehensive investigation, including, among other investigative steps, conducting over 550 interviews and reviewing tens of thousands of documents, before seeking the toll records at issue."
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Andrew Beaujon
May 14, 2013
3:48 pm
AOL announced last week that Columbia Journalism Review Editor-in-Chief Cyndi Stivers had
accepted the editorship of AOL.com, the company's storied Web gateway. Wait a second, I asked the journalism-industry chronicler in a phone call Monday, aren't news consumers moving away from home pages?
"Not that one!" Stivers said of AOL.com. "That’s huge. It’s still huge, huge, huge." Under her watch, she said, AOL.com will help readers: "Save them time, make them smarter, entertain them a little." Media criticism, she said, would probably not be a huge part of the home page's offerings.
AOL readers hungry for meta-reporting can still visit
CJR's snazzy home page, whose flexibility Stivers cited as one of the accomplishments of her tenure.
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Andrew Beaujon
May 14, 2013
1:29 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
May 14, 2013
9:47 am
Reviews are in: Not many people are fans of the Department of Justice's
seizure of two months' worth of phone records from AP reporters. DOJ still isn't saying why it seized the records. Here are some important aspects of this story:
• Authorities don't need a warrant to request records of phone numbers called; they need only a subpoena. (Here's a handy guide from ProPublica on
what data the government can seize and how.) Watergate-era reforms require authorities to seek “alternative sources before considering issuing a subpoena to a member of the news media" unless "such negotiations would not pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation in connection with which the records are sought." Attorney David Schulz, who is representing the AP, "
got the notice from the Justice Department last Friday," Erik Wemple writes.
Another lawyer at his firm attempted to reach out to an assistant U.S. attorney to get more details on the matter, but the prosecutor wouldn’t go beyond the information in the Justice Department’s letter to the AP.
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Is there statutory justification for it? Yes, probably,” Carl Bernstein said Tuesday about the incursion. “Is there justification for it in terms of recognizing what the right to a free press is and what a free press means in this country? This is intimidation. It’s wrong. The president of the United States should’ve long ago put a stop to this.”
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