Andrew Beaujon
June 17, 2013
11:26 am
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Andrew Beaujon
June 17, 2013
10:45 am
Keeping up with security disclosures is practically a part-time job these days. Here's some of what came out this weekend:
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Britain, U.S. spied on diplomats: Another leak from Edward Snowden says the U.K.'s Government Communications Headquarters established a fake Internet cafe at G20 meetings in London in 2009
to spy on diplomats' phones and computers, Ewen MacAskill, Nick Davies, Nick Hopkins, Julian Borger and James Ball report in the Guardian. During those meetings, the reporters write, NSA was
spying on then Russian president Dmitry Medvedev from a Royal Air Force base in Britain.
"This is just what intelligence agencies do — spy on friends and enemies alike,” intelligence historian Matthew M. Aid
told The New York Times' Scott Shane and Ravi Somaiya. “Only because the shroud of secrecy that covers all of N.S.A. operations is so thick does a glimpse like this come as a shock.”
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Andrew Beaujon
June 17, 2013
12:05 am
Pew Research Center
About half the news coverage of the Supreme Court's deliberations on two same-sex marriage cases this spring focused on support for gay marriage, while only 9 percent focused on opposition. 44 percent of coverage was neutral. Those are among the findings of a new study by Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, out today.
The Supreme Court may rule on one or both of those cases Monday.
That trend continued across "nearly all media sectors studied," the report says. "All three of the major cable networks, for instance, had more stories with significantly more supportive statements than opposing, including Fox News."
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Andrew Beaujon
June 14, 2013
5:02 pm
Southern Maryland Newspapers
The Washington Post Comapny's Southern Maryland Newspapers -- which include the Maryland Independent, The (St. Mary's County) Enterprise and The Calvert Recorder --
will launch a paywall June 17. An article published Friday tells current subscribers they'll see no change other than a request they register on somdnews.com.
Others will be able to view three stories a month before hitting the gate. Breaking news will still be free, "in keeping with the responsibility we have to inform the communities we serve when something happens," the article says, as will classified and legal ads.
A one-year
subscription to the Independent or The Enterprise costs $44 (plus you get a $20 gas card); 12 months of the Recorder costs $29 (you get a $10 gas card). Post Co. spokesperson Rima Calderon says via email no other
Post Co.-owned community papers are installing paywalls at this time, and that digital-only packages will be available. The Washington Post Co.
shuttered two of its Maryland papers last month.
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Andrew Beaujon
June 14, 2013
3:20 pm
Newtown Bee
Friday is the six-month anniversary of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Former U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords and Roxanna Green -- whose daughter was killed in the same 2011 Tucson, Ariz., mass shooting
where Giffords was wounded -- mark the occasion with an
op-ed piece in the Newtown Bee.
They write:
"Today, we send our love to the families of Newtown – the dads who won’t have their children with them on Father’s Day this weekend, the siblings who play catch and soccer alone. We know that the attention paid to anniversaries can feel surreal, as life without our loved ones is measured in moments and hours, not public markers."
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Andrew Beaujon
June 14, 2013
1:14 pm
Business Wired
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requirements for a press release have changed since 2007, when Business Wire estimated a good press release
would run $5,000, Fred Godlash writes. "The biggest change, in just 6 years, is the focus from pitching to media outlets to making a press release that is written for everybody."
In today’s world the press release may be picked up by anyone that will write about your company – not just traditional media outlets, but bloggers, consumer groups, advocacy groups, social media users and more.
A press release today would take about "150 hours of collective work," including "Hiring staff for keyword optimization, content creation, research, analytics, multimedia, embed codes for tracking, and legal fees for regulatory compliance," Godlash writes. The total cost, he figures, would be up to $7,500.
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Andrew Beaujon
June 14, 2013
11:40 am
WHO-TV |
Des Moines Register
The Des Moines Register
will move to new office space Friday. "We'll fill up about 2,100 boxes, and about midnight on Friday night, we'll head up to Capital Square down Locust Street, and we'll be there Saturday morning," Register Editor Rick Green tells WHO-TV's Andy Fales.
"It's been Iowa's epicenter of 'What's up,'" Fales says of the old digs, which the paper has occupied since 1918. "But now it's a testament to the 'Has-been.'"
Register political columnist Kathie Obradovich on Tuesday
posted photos of things she won't have room for in the new space: An "Oversized button from the Democrats’ 1992 Fall Fest with Bill Clinton"; some utensils that double as pens ("I hear we won’t be eating at our new desks," Obradovich writes).
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Andrew Beaujon
June 14, 2013
10:42 am
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Andrew Beaujon
June 14, 2013
8:58 am
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Andrew Beaujon
June 14, 2013
6:41 am
Chicago Tribune |
Boston Magazine |
Bostinno
"Hang in there, Boston": That was the big-hearted message the Chicago Tribune's sports page sent with
an extraordinary tribute the day after the Boston Marathon bombings. "We are Chicago Celtics," the front page of April 16's sports section read in part. "We are Chicago Bruins."
Those good feelings have apparently evaporated with the Stanley Cup finals, in which the Chicago Blackhawks face the Boston Bruins. An image in a supplemental section Wednesday called "Hawkeytown" shows a hand tearing out the Bruins logo from that page with the legend "
Yeah, not right now we're not."
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Andrew Beaujon
June 13, 2013
4:23 pm
The New York Times |
ProPublica
Former New Yorker intern Matthew Leib and former W Magazine intern Lauren Ballinger
are suing Conde Nast, saying they weren't paid minimum wage. Their suit says Leib "was paid $300 to $500 for each summer he worked," Christine Haughney reports.
Ballinger tells Haughney she "was paid $12 a day to work in W’s accessories department."
She said that even one of the editors at W marveled how poor their work conditions were.
The editor said the job was reminiscent of Anne Hathaway’s job in “The Devil Wears Prada,” but worse, “because we don’t get any makeover in the end,” Ms. Ballinger said in the interview.
Leib and Ballinger asked for class action status for their suit, which like several other high-profile lawsuits regarding internships is being handled by the law firm Outten & Golden. The firm represented two interns who sued Fox Searchlight Pictures for their work on the 2010 film "The Black Swan"; a judge ruled Tuesday that
Fox Searchlight violated labor laws.
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Andrew Beaujon
June 13, 2013
2:25 pm
PBS MediaShift |
Student Press Law Center |
Report Schick
University of Virginia graduate Matthew Cameron wrote a thesis
suggesting ways university newspapers can survive and thrive, Dan Reimold writes. Student journalists who are paid "shouldn’t expect the same compensation they did in the past," Reimold says, nor should they fight a migration away from print.
Cameron was editor-in-chief at U.Va.'s Cavalier Daily, where “We found that people were becoming less interested in the print paper,” Cameron told Reimold.
“Then when we looked at our pick-up rates [the amount of copies grabbed from newsstands around campus], the numbers we found confirmed the papers weren’t being picked up as much as they used to.”
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Andrew Beaujon
June 13, 2013
11:34 am
Pew
39 percent of news nonprofits Pew surveyed "said they favor “some form of government subsidies” to help fund organizations like theirs," Jodi Enda writes. 30 percent opposed taking public money.
"In fact, the notion that the government would subsidize the news business is not new," Enda writes.
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Andrew Beaujon
June 13, 2013
10:57 am
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