Julie Moos
Feb. 22, 2012
5:30 pm
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Jake Heller
Feb. 22, 2012
3:00 pm
Social Media Week in New York ended last Friday night at Columbia University’s Journalism School, as social media editors, journalism students and social media aficionados continued conversations about guidelines and best practices that had occurred during a previous Social… Read more
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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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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 22, 2012
1:09 pm
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Julie Moos
Feb. 22, 2012
1:08 pm
Bot or Not
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- 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.
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Julie Moos
Feb. 22, 2012
12:30 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 22, 2012
11:33 am
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Fort Worth police screwed up mightily during an investigation of
drug dealing and drug use at Texas Christian University. Eighteen people, 15 of them students, four of them -- gasp -- members of the Horned Frogs football team got popped on various charges, and the police released photos, which were run in local media.
While the original reports were somewhat breathless, a bigger problem was that one of those photos was of the wrong man. Austin Carpenter was named as a suspect at large because one undercover officer bought drugs in a parking lot from a guy named Austin, who drove off in a vehicle registered to someone with the last name Carpenter.
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