Julie Moos
Feb. 22, 2012
5:30 pm
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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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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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Jeff Sonderman
Feb. 22, 2012
11:08 am
The New York Times |
9to5 Google
Nick Bilton reports
Google will be selling eyeglasses with an embedded digital display by the end of the year. What kinds of new news products and sources will emerge to fit this new class of devices?
Bilton's sources say the Android-powered headsets will cost "around the price of current smartphones." They'll have a small screen on the side of the viewing area, wireless Internet access, and sensors like GPS, an accelerometer and a front-facing camera to "monitor the world in real time and overlay information about locations, surrounding buildings and friends who might be nearby." This description sounds similar to the glasses envisioned by Matt Thompson and Robin Sloan in "The Storm Collection," their vision of
a future when digital information overlays every part of the real world.
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Julie Moos
Feb. 22, 2012
10:13 am
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Jeff Sonderman
Feb. 22, 2012
9:39 am
Storify | iTunes Store | The Next Web
Storify's brand-new iPad app unveiled this morning should extend the curation tool to new, more-casual users and increase the live-blogging of conferences and events.
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In general, the app offers the same service the Web version of Storify does. But its touch-based interface is more intuitive for drag-and-drop story building. And the availability on a portable device now means more people can Storify an event live. There's also a new feature to tweet from within the app, so you can quickly post your own updates while curating others'.
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 22, 2012
8:04 am
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 22, 2012
7:10 am
Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times and French photographer
Remi Ochlik have been killed in Homs, Syria. A Reuters story says
two other journalists have been wounded:
Paul Conroy, a British photographer, and "a female American journalist." A New York Times story says there are
three wounded journalists. The killed and injured were in a house in use as a media center that was hit with rockets, activists in Homs say.
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The Editor of the Sunday Times: "Marie was an extraordinary figure in the life of The Sunday Times, driven by a passion to cover wars in the belief that what she did mattered."
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Colvin was interviewed by
Anderson Cooper Tuesday, Brian Stelter
tweets.
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Colvin on war reporting: "We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado?" |
Colvin last week: "Shocked by the news of the death of Anthony Shadid, a brilliant journalist and writer whose work glowed with his humanity and was always so kind and gentle."
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Andy Carvin has been tweeting about the deaths from Tripoli: "These reporters and citizen journos muster more bravery in a day than I ever will in a lifetime. I am forever in their debt. #syria #homs"
>>"The best memorial to her would be to renew and expand our commitment to ‘conflict journalism,' "
writes Charlie Beckett.
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was a memorial yesterday in Beirut for
Anthony Shadid, who died last week in Syria. Family, friends and journalists spoke. “It’s going to be so much emptier without him,” the Washington Post
quotes Steve Fainaru saying. “I really will miss him so, so much.” A
tribute to Shadid in Oklahoma City is planned for March 3.
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