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Social journalism research helps explain how information is verified on Twitter

Craig Silverman — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:38:55 +0000

Alfred Hermida‘s research on social journalism can help journalists better understand verification and accuracy on Twitter. Two papers in particular caught my eye: “Tweets and Truth: Journalism as a Discipline of Collaborative Verification” and “Twittering the News: The… Read more

Los Angeles Times shuts down ‘LA’ magazine, lays off 7 staffers

Andrew Beaujon — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:14:09 +0000

LA Observed | Fishbowl LA | Los Angeles Times
A memo from Los Angeles Times President Kathy Thomson broke the news in an email to staffers Tuesday: “…the entire magazine industry has been faced with a very challenging… Read more

Rob Curley leaves Las Vegas Sun

Julie Moos — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:27:02 +0000

After four years at the Las Vegas Sun, Rob Curley is leaving the news organization. A memo from Brian Greenspun, the paper’s publisher and president, does not specify what Curley is doing next, just that “Rob has decided he… Read more

Google explains why Adweek ‘survey wall’ stopped Gawker editorial director

Steve Myers — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:12:26 +0000

Scott Kidder, director of editorial operations at Gawker Media, said it was “desperate” that Adweek’s website tried to get him to share a story on Facebook, Twitter or Google+ before he had read it.

Turns out, that was a… Read more

New USA Today publisher Larry Kramer gets to apply his theories about newsroom evolution

Andrew Beaujon — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:00:59 +0000

New USA Today Publisher Larry Kramer hasn’t had a newspaper job since 1991, when he left the San Francisco Examiner to found DataSport, and eventually MarketWatch. But he’s thought about newspapers ever since, and in his most recent gig as… Read more

Susanne Reber joins Center for Investigative Reporting after NPR departure

Steve Myers — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:04:25 +0000

Center for Investigative Reporting
Last week’s memo announcing Susanne Reber’s departure from NPR, where she was deputy managing editor for investigations, didn’t say where she was headed. Tuesday, the Center for Investigative Reporting announced that Reber has been named… Read more

U.K. paper apologizes for saying female musician slept with DJ

Craig Silverman — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:01:05 +0000

U.K. tabloid the Daily Mirror apologizes for saying that a female musician was one of many women who supposedly slept with a well known BBC DJ:

Following our article of 1 May 2012 in which it was reported that… Read more

Study: Facebook Timeline has increased user engagement by 13 percent

Mallary Jean Tenore — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:54:55 +0000

Sotrender
A new study shows that Facebook’s Timeline has extended the average lifetime of a post and led to more engagement.

The research company Sotrender analyzed about 5,000 Facebook posts from 130 of the biggest U.K. company profiles before… Read more

Journalism grad wishes she’d become a mortician instead

Andrew Beaujon — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:46:40 +0000

New American Media
Elizabeth Ireland is graduating from San Francisco State University with a degree in journalism. She wishes she’d pursued mortuary science instead, a field she says “is expecting an 18 percent growth rate. Although I could have had… Read more

Baltimore Sun celebrates anniversary with 1837-style website

Andrew Beaujon — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:17:05 +0000

The Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore Sun turns 175 on Thursday; to celebrate, Director of Interactive Design Adam Marton has reconfigured its website to present today’s news as it might have looked in the 19th century (one big… Read more