Mallary Jean Tenore
As associate editor of Poynter.org (mtenore@poynter.org), I report on the media news industry and edit the site's How To section. I like to unpack media trends and am especially interested in the ways that technology is changing how we tell stories. Other topics I like to cover include: corrections, commenting, new tools for narrative journalism, diversity in the media and women in technology.
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 Boston Globe, The St. Petersburg Times, The Worcester Telegram & Gazette, The Lowell Sun, The MetroWest Daily News and Rhode Island Monthly magazine. I also served as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper at Providence College, my alma mater. I grew up in Massachusetts and still consider myself to be a Bostonian at heart.
In my free time, I like: Exploring new places, speaking Spanish, meeting people, laughter that makes you cry, and listening to people tell their stories.
You can read about my adventures on my blog at www.mallaryjeantenore.wordpress.com, or find me on Twitter @mallarytenore.
Mallary Jean Tenore
Apr. 16, 2012
3:03 pm
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Apr. 12, 2012
12:45 pm
A Huffington Post story about George Zimmerman’s second-degree murder charge had generated more than 15,000 comments by Wednesday evening. By noon today, the story had more than 25,000 comments.
Editors at smaller news organizations say their sites and social media… Read more
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Apr. 11, 2012
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Apr. 11, 2012
8:01 am
Before he ever stepped foot in Iraq, Washington Post reporter Ed O’Keefe had already navigated his way through landmines, used a tourniquet to help an injured person, and been ambushed.
He did all this and more in a hostile environment… Read more
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Apr. 5, 2012
7:43 am
Covering gas prices and energy can be especially challenging during a presidential election year. Journalists must relay the candidates’ stances on the energy debate, and also clarify their rhetoric and fact check their statements.
In a live chat, Columbia Journalism… Read more
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Apr. 4, 2012
10:57 am
Reynolds Journalism Institute | ASNE
The number of minorities in the U.S.
is growing, but in newspaper newsrooms it continues to creep downward.
New ASNE figures show that the percentage of minorities in newsrooms
is now 12.32 percent. The share has dropped about a percentage point since ASNE's 2010 census.
Minority newsroom employment has no doubt increased since ASNE started its survey in 1978, when the percentage of minorities in newsrooms was just below 4 percent. The percentage peaked during ASNE's 2006 census (at 13.73 percent), but it has fallen almost every year since.
Figures from the past three years show that the decline of minorities has been significantly higher compared to the overall decline of newsroom employees.
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Apr. 3, 2012
8:52 am
Read it Later
Apps like
Read it Later have
made it easier for people to save not just longform articles, but longform videos. New data released this morning show that video saves on Read it Later increased by more than 138 percent from January 2011 to January 2012.
The median length of Read It Later’s top 1,000 saved videos was nearly 30 minutes. Of the top 1,000 videos, 32 percent were more than five minutes long.
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Mar. 28, 2012
10:50 am
Reuters | ESPN.com
Earlier this week, editors and publishers at several Gannett papers said staffers who signed a petition calling for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s recall
violated the company’s ethics code and would be disciplined. ESPN, meanwhile,
dropped a ban on staff posting photos of themselves wearing hoodies in solidarity with Trayvon Martin.
Both instances raise the question: What rights should journalists be free to exercise?
Reuters’ Jack Shafer said
Gannett staffers should be free to sign recall petitions, and he criticized the company’s response. “I suspect that what really irritates the Gannett bosses," he said, "is not the deed but the visibility of the deed.” He went on to ask: “Instead of suppressing the political lives of journalists, why not allow that which is now covert to become overt and give readers more information to assess coverage?”
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Mar. 28, 2012
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