Caitlin Johnston
Apr. 23, 2013
12:44 pm
Newspaper reporters can
add CareerCast.com to the list of sources telling them to flee journalism.
The group took 200 jobs and ranked them in order from most to least desirable, based on factors such as environment, income, outcome and stress. Add all that together and newspaper reporter rings in at a dismal 200 out of 200 – the worst job on CareerCast's list, below lumberjack, janitor, garbage collector and bus driver.
“We look at a wide range of criteria, as analytical as we can be,” said Tony Lee, CareerCast’s publisher. “There are some subjective pieces but, frankly, it’s really driven by the data.”
The data come from sources such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration and trade associations.
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Caitlin Johnston
Dec. 2, 2012
7:00 am
Aaron Kushner's 2100 Trust investment group is
selling The Colorado Springs Gazette just four months after buying the paper.
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The company, led by former greeting-card entrepreneur Kushner, acquired the Gazette and six other papers when it
bought Freedom Communications in July.
But the sale to billionaire Philip Anschutz's Clarity Media Group isn't a sign that Kushner is losing interest in newspapers.
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Caitlin Johnston
Nov. 21, 2012
5:49 am
Many of America’s school buildings are in disarray, with leaking roofs, toxic air and termite-infested walls. Parade Magazine decided to tackle this issue in a 2,000-word story, but one that editors and freelancer Barry Yeoman chose to tell through … Read more
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Caitlin Johnston
Nov. 12, 2012
7:25 am
Wired | "Reliable Sources" | "Meet the Press" | The Guardian | BuzzFeed
Since Gen. David Petraeus' resignation as CIA director, after admitting to an extramarital affair, many journalists are asking, "Were we too easy on him all along?"
"Like many in the press, nearly every national politician, and lots of members of Petraeus’ brain trust over the years, I played a role in the creation of the legend around David Petraeus," writes national security reporter Spencer Ackerman in a Wired piece published Sunday entitled,
"How I Was Drawn Into the Cult of David Petraeus."
Ackerman uses his own relationship with the general to highlight how easily the press was swayed by Petraeus' intellect, personality and willingness to engage with reporters. "I bought into it, especially after I found Petraeus to be the rare general who didn’t mind responding to the occasional follow-up request," he writes.
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Caitlin Johnston
Nov. 10, 2012
5:16 pm
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Caitlin Johnston
Nov. 4, 2012
8:41 pm
Shooting in the dark, with a handheld camera, in a vibrating helicopter, 5,000 feet above land sounds like a photographer’s nightmare. But Iwan Baan made it look easy.
The Dutch photographer’s image of a
half-illuminated, half-powerless New York City in the wake of Hurricane Sandy captured the nation’s attention on the cover of New York magazine.
"It was the only way to show that New York was two cities, almost," Baan said on the phone Sunday evening from Haiti. "One was almost like a third world country where everything was becoming scarce. Everything was complicated. And then another was a completely vibrant, alive New York."
Baan made the image Wednesday night after the storm, using the new Canon 1D X with the new 24-70mm lens on full open aperture. The camera was set at 25,000 ISO, with a 1/40
th of a second shutter speed.
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Caitlin Johnston
Oct. 29, 2012
6:03 am
As people across the East Coast hunker down in preparation for
Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey's Newark-based Star-Ledger is focused on staying close to its audience and providing around-the-clock information through the next few days.
“Readers want to have a direct line to us,” Editor Kevin Whitmer says. “And on something like this, having been through Irene last year, we’re in a little bit better position to learn from what we did there, what worked, what we need to do a little bit better.”
When Hurricane Irene hit the East Coast last August, it turned into a week and a half of non-stop reporting for The Star-Ledger staff. One big lesson from that was learning how best to deploy people and making sure the staff manages to still get rest, Whitmer says by phone Sunday night after putting the print edition of the paper to bed.
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Caitlin Johnston
Oct. 27, 2012
4:37 pm
The Des Moines Register endorsed Mitt Romney Saturday night for the presidency. Breaking from 40 years of Democratic endorsements, the Register cited the economy, job creation and an ability to work across party lines as reasons for their support of Romney.
"The former governor and business executive has a strong record of achievement in both the private and the public sectors," the paper wrote in its endorsement. "He was an accomplished governor in a liberal state. He founded and ran a successful business that turned around failing companies."
The endorsement breaks the pre-existing tie in
endorsements from major papers in Swing States. The Register joins five other papers -- including the Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel -- to flip its support from Obama in 2008 to Romney in 2012, giving the GOP nominee the lead in Swing State newspaper endorsements.
"Our support for Republican Mitt Romney may surprise, it may anger, it may please,"
the Register's Editorial Board acknowledges. "Opinions expressed by this board in no way affect news coverage, except to the extent than an endorsement itself becomes news."
The New York Times underscored its editorial independence as well Saturday when it
announced its endorsement of Obama, citing the economy, health care and women's issues as key reasons behind its decision. The Times also backed Obama in 2008.
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Caitlin Johnston
Oct. 3, 2012
9:57 am
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