Mallary Jean Tenore
As managing editor of The Poynter Institute’s website, Poynter.org, I report on the media news industry, edit the site’s How To section, and moderate the site's live chats. I also help handle the site's social media efforts, and teach social media sessions on the side.
I like to unpack media trends, and I’m especially interested in how technology is changing the way we tell stories. Other topics I like to cover include: social media, new tools for longform journalism, diversity in the media, women in technology, corrections, commenting on news sites, and writing tips and techniques.
I came to Poynter in June 2007 for the institute’s summer fellowship for young journalists and then stayed on for a year-long fellowship before being hired full-time in November 2008. I’ve written for The Dallas Morning News, The Tampa Bay Times, The Boston Globe and several other newspapers in Massachusetts.
I’m currently working on a memoir, which is coming along slowly but surely.
May 10, 2013
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May 2, 2013
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Apr. 30, 2013
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100 Percent Men | The Atlantic Wire
The new “100 Percent Men” Tumblr highlights “corners of the world where women have yet to tread" and aims to "shine a light" on the issue. New Republic reporter Lydia DePillis created the Tumblr earlier this month to show the gender disparity among higher-ups at news organizations, political groups, tech companies and more.
“[I] just wanted a place to collect the 100% men instances I'd noticed in a central place, and Tumblr’s generally acknowledged as the best platform to do that,” she told Poynter.
Many of the posts include photos that show how male (and white) the executives of some companies are. Other posts highlight media-related “Boys Clubs”:
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Apr. 25, 2013
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Apr. 20, 2013
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USA Today | Associated Press
Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today and former Gannett chairman,
died Friday. He was 89.
Gannett CEO Gracia Martore shared memories of Neuharth in
a USA Today piece:
"Al was many things — a journalist, a leader, a serial entrepreneur, and a pioneer in advancing opportunities for women and minorities. But above all, he was an innovator with a unique sense of the public taste. ... I will miss his counsel, and I will miss the man. But as with all great people, what Al built will live on."
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Apr. 19, 2013
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As journalists cover
the news unfolding in Boston, they've been searching for answers about the suspects. Some have reported information about the suspects' apparent social media accounts in hopes of finding out more about them and their motives.
The reports are a reminder to be careful when reporting on social media profiles and
to not read too deeply into them.
Some journalists and news outlets have been tweeting about one of the suspect's accounts on VKontake -- a Russian-language social media site.
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Apr. 16, 2013
11:57 am
Javier Manzano was "shocked" when he found out
he had won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography.
“To be honest, I am still having a bit of trouble processing the magnitude of the recognition,” Manzano, a freelancer for Agence France-Presse, said by email Tuesday morning. “I feel privileged to be [in] the company of my colleagues who also work as freelancers in some of the most challenging environments with little or no outside support.”
Freelancers have won Pulitzer prizes in the past, but not nearly as often as full-time journalists have. Pulitzer administrator Sig Gissler told Poynter that it's been 17 years since a freelance photographer won a Pulitzer. (Two freelance photographers -- Charles Porter IV and Stephanie Welsh -- won in 1996.)
Manzano won for a photo of two rebel soldiers guarding their sniper’s nest in Aleppo, as light streams through bullet holes in the wall behind them. Karmel Jabl, the neighborhood in which Manzano captured the photo, separates many of the major battlegrounds in Aleppo.
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Apr. 15, 2013
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Two explosions occurred near the Boston Marathon finish line today around 3 p.m. ET. Some people have reportedly lost limbs, while others are unconscious. There are mixed reports about how many people have been injured, but Boston Police say three people have died. Here's how journalists are covering the tragedy.
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Apr. 11, 2013
12:31 pm
Pamela Paul says one of her goals as
the incoming editor of The New York Times' Book Review is to make the section "unpredictable."
Some contend the Book Review has been too predictable, at least in terms of who's featured in its pages. Authors Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner
have argued for years that the section features far more male authors than female authors, and figures
from VIDA and
The Rumpus back up this claim.
When asked about VIDA's annual count of female authors, Paul said via email:
"Representing a diversity of authors and books is extremely important at the Book Review, and it will continue to be. And by diversity, I mean variety in every way: a diversity of author backgrounds and ideologies and arguments, a diversity of genre, a diversity of subject matter. While the VIDA numbers were indeed dismal overall, I was pleased to see that the Book Review has had a far better record than many other publications."
She didn't elaborate on how she would help diversify the section.
It's hard to compare the Times to other publications in the VIDA count because it reviews more books than many of those other publications. It's obvious, though, that there's a lot of room for improvement.
The latest VIDA count shows The New York Times Book Review featured more than twice as many male authors as female authors -- 488 to 237.
Here is my edited email exchange with Paul, who is serving as the features editor and children's book editor at the Times until she assumes her new role in May.
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Mar. 28, 2013
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Columbia Journalism Review | TVNewser | Media Matters
MSNBC’s Christopher Hayes acknowledges that the lack of diversity in the media is a problem. Instead of just talking about it, though, he’s doing something about it.
His weekend morning show "Up with Chris Hayes" has been praised in recent weeks for being “a beacon of diversity.” Hayes,
who is about to move into prime-time, tells Columbia Journalism Review's Ann Friedman that he and the show's producers rely on quotas and spend a lot of time discussing the diversity of the show’s guests.
"We just would look at the board and say, ‘We already have too many white men. We can’t have more.’ Really, that was it ... Always, constantly just counting," Hayes tells Friedman.
He has tried to look at diversity from a racial and gender standpoint. "Out of four panelists on every show, he and his booking producers ensured that at least two were women," Friedman writes.
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