Steve Myers
Feb. 3, 2012
5:12 pm
A few additional links to read this afternoon:
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Steve Myers
Feb. 3, 2012
2:20 pm
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Steve Myers
Feb. 3, 2012
11:48 am
J-School Buzz | Student Press Law Center
J-School Buzz, an independent blog covering the Missouri School of Journalism, has found an ally in
its complaints about the Columbia Missourian's policy forbidding its student reporters to work for other media. Adam Goldstein of the Student Press Law Center believes the Missourian's policy violates the First Amendment, in part because the Missourian isn't a typical student-run newspaper. It's overseen by faculty members, who are state employees. He says the Missourian's conflict of interest policy boils down to this: "a public university imposing limitations on free speech." And he finds the policy ironic considering the more obvious conflicts present at Missourian:
It’s hard to see how an organization edited by people who are full-time paid agents of the entity it most frequently covers, who also happens to be the biggest employer in town, could ever have a conflicts policy that isn’t a joke. (more...)
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Steve Myers
Feb. 3, 2012
10:10 am
Yale Daily News
Diana Li and Christopher Peak compare the New Haven Register, the corporate-owned newspaper reinventing itself as "digital first," and the New Haven Independent, the upstart nonprofit news site. Editors at the newspaper describe how they're opening up the newsroom, hosting online chats, linking to blogs and asking for community input. "They’re doing everything we did, a few years after we started,” says Independent Editor Paul Bass. “It is a golden age in New Haven for journalism. Old media is finding new ways to do the job ... It’s a great time to be a reporter. At least until the money runs out.” ||
Earlier: Layoffs at New Haven Register continue Journal Register’s outsourcing of printing operations (Poynter)
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Steve Myers
Feb. 3, 2012
9:04 am
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Steve Myers
Feb. 2, 2012
5:03 pm
The Sacramento Bee has suspended an award-winning photographer
for combining two photos of an egret eating a frog into one image, an ethical violation that Sean Elliot, president of the National Press Photographers Association, called a "betrayal."
Elliot said cases of photo manipulation like this chip away at all photojournalists' credibility with the public.
"If this photographer in Sacramento can diddle around with a photograph of an egret, how can I know that any photograph I look at is trustworthy?" he asked. "It feels like a betrayal. ... It violates a feeling of trust I think we have with all of our members."
The Bee didn't identify the photographer in question; Community Affairs Director Pam Dinsmore told me that the paper wasn't able to do so, or discuss the paper's response, because “it's not yet resolved.”
However, a
local TV station said it was Bryan Patrick, which Elliot confirmed. Patrick took the other images in the
Bee's photo gallery of the Galt Winter Bird Festival. (I was unsuccessful in reaching Patrick by email and phone.)
Kenny Irby, Poynter's faculty for photojournalism and diversity, said after looking at the photo that it wasn't hard to tell that it had been Photoshopped. "The vegetation in the image is what's a giveaway."
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Steve Myers
Feb. 2, 2012
12:23 pm
The Huffington Post
A year after
AOL bought The Huffington Post for $315 million, Arianna Huffington has released figures showing how the site has performed in the last year. Monthly unique visits were at 36.2 million in December, an increase of 47 percent from a year earlier. Other figures:
- Comments in the last month: 6 million
- Comments on a single day: 253,331 (Jan 25, 2012)
- New commenters signing up per day: 5,500
- Social referrals in a month: 21.6 million (December 2011)
- Facebook referrals in a day: 1.4 million (January 4, 2012)
Huffington also announced the HuffPost Streaming Network, which "will live-stream 12 hours of original programming, 5 days a week, and repeating overnight. This will increase to 16 hours a day of original live programming by the end of 2013."
The network will be built around segments spotlighting the biggest, hottest, most engaging stories HuffPost is covering at any given moment and using them as the jumping-off points for conversations, commentary, and comedy. These segments will be as long -- or as short -- as they need to be. We won't be limited by the usual time constraints of TV. (more...)
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Steve Myers
Feb. 2, 2012
10:56 am
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Steve Myers
Feb. 2, 2012
10:37 am
Paul Isom, who was fired as East Carolina University's student media adviser after the
college paper published photos of a streaker, is appealing his termination on free speech grounds. The deadline to appeal is today, but Isom said he sent a letter Wednesday asking for an extension because he hasn't received all of the emails the university has unearthed related to his employment.
Contrary to a recent editorial in the local newspaper stating
that the school hasn't allowed him to review the documents, Isom said he gets about one batch of emails a week. "The last batch I got, I was told there were more, but they didn't tell me how much or when I'd get them," he said in a phone interview.
Isom said he won't decide whether he'll allow the documents to be released until he sees everything. So far, though, he hasn't come across anything that would cause him to withhold them.
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