Julie Moos

Julie Moos (jmoos@poynter.org) has been Director of Poynter Online and Poynter Publications since 2009. Previously, she was Editor of Poynter Online (2007-2009) and Poynter Publications (2006-2009); Managing Editor of Poynter Online and Publications Manager (2004-2006); and News Editor of Poynter Online (2002-2004). Before joining Poynter in 2002, Julie worked for seven years at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, N.C., doing newscast graphics, producing, writing and finally as Managing Editor of WRAL.com. You can reach Julie by phone at 727-553-4336 or by email. You can also follow Julie on Twitter.

Media General explores sale of its newspapers

Julie Moos Feb. 22, 2012 5:30 pm

Media General
Just after the market closed Wednesday, Media General announced it is "exploring the potential sale of newspaper operations." The company, which owns 21 newspapers in five states, just two weeks ago got more time to ease a debt crunch it's been facing. It has also been reducing staff at The Tampa Tribune, where 165 positions were eliminated in December. Florida has been a particularly hard-hit market for the company, and the only one that did not report a profit in the third quarter of 2011. The Tampa Tribune, which some speculate will be one of the papers to be sold, competes with the Poynter-owned, recently-renamed Tampa Bay Times in the St. Petersburg-Tampa market. (more...)
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Feb. 22, 2012 5:00 pm

All Gannett papers, except USA Today, will be behind a paywall by the end of 2012

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Feb. 22, 2012 4:30 pm

Counterintuitive argument of the day: Storify iPad app was not hyped enough, says NBC Social Media Editor Craig Kanalley

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Federico on ESPN headline: ‘It was an awful editorial omission and it cost me my job’

Julie Moos Feb. 22, 2012 2:50 pm

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Anthony Federico released an extended statement today in which he reiterates that he was not attempting a racist pun when he wrote "Chink in the Armor" as the headline for an ESPN story about the New York Knicks and Jeremy Lin. Federico says:
I wrote thousands and thousands and thousands of headlines in my five years at ESPN. There never was a problem with any of them and I was consistently praised as an employee – both personally and professionally. Two weeks prior to the incident I had my first column published on espnW.com. My career was taking off. Why would I throw that all away with a racist pun? This was an honest mistake.

It is also crucial that people know that the writer of the column had nothing to do with the headline. I wrote it and now I take responsibility for it. (more...)
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Feb. 22, 2012 2:36 pm

Newspaper carrier rescues stranded online journalist after 2 tow trucks refuse:

At the last minute of desperation I flagged down a guy in a minivan, hoping he would rescue me.

He did.

While tossing the daily news that we take for granted, in the then-current arctic blast in Cincinnati, he helped me continue my route, while disrupting his own. …

I am re-upping my Enquirer subscription after 20 years because newsmen and women, from the top down, never die. And sometimes they make the difference in a guy’s life, which happened that day.

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Jon Allen, guest columnist for Cincinnati.com

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New tool determines whether a Twitter account is bot or not

Julie Moos Feb. 22, 2012 1:08 pm

Bot or Not
Enter a Twitter handle in the bot test to see whether it appears human or automated.
A journalism class at The New School in New York has created a tool that determines whether a Twitter account is curated by human or bot. Assistant journalism professor Heather Chaplin enlisted The New York Times' Aron Pilhofer and WYNC's John Keefe to work with students on analyzing the "botfestation of the Web" by isolating criteria that would predict whether Twitter accounts are automated or hand-curated. They tracked 179 stories from Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, and TechCrunch, tweeted across the Web over 79,000 times by more than 18,000 distinct Twitter users. (more...)
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Fake, real AP Stylebook make up

Julie Moos Feb. 22, 2012 12:30 pm

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Colvin was supposed to leave Syria Tuesday, but stayed for a story

Julie Moos Feb. 22, 2012 10:13 am

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Rosemarie Colvin says her daughter Marie was planning to leave Syria Tuesday but stayed to finish a story she was working on.
"She had a story she felt was very important," Rosemarie Colvin said, adding: "She would take one more day." ...

"She was absolutely dedicated to doing what she did at the highest level ... It's the way she always was. Even when she was young she marched to her own tune ... She was totally dedicated to getting the story straight and getting it out."
Colvin, who died overnight in Syria while reporting for The Sunday Times, graduated from Long Island's Oyster Bay High School and attended Yale.

Related: 6 journalists have been killed in Syria in the last few months | UK politicians pay tribute to Colvin | Is Syria targeting journalists? | Colvin's final story has been published by the Times (The Sunday Times) | Are foreign correspondents like Colvin & Shadid a vanishing breed? (Poynter) | Marie Colvin killed in Syria, other journalists wounded overnight (Poynter).
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Feb. 22, 2012 5:00 am

Storify launches iPad app overnight with “drag and drop social curation”

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Feb. 21, 2012 12:20 pm

Forbes’ Kashmir Hill wrote about reporting by Charles Duhigg in a piece that Nick O’Neill said “stole” its essence (and generated huge traffic). Jim Romenesko got comments from all of the writers involved.

Kashmir Hill: “I took a great piece by an excellent reporter and created a version of it that was better for an online audience. This is a big part of what I do as a ‘new journalist.’ ”

Charles Duhigg: “Complaining about someone re-writing reporting is kind of like kvetching about the rain: it’s pointless, because you’ll end up wet regardless of your protestations.”

Nick O’Neill: “…remixing content is an important part of creating content on the Web.”

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JimRomenesko.com

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