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Late last Saturday night, CNN producer Jennifer Hauser and her husband, on a whim, bought a $10 lottery ticket to mark their seventh wedding anniversary.
They scratched off the blue “50X The Money” ticket and couldn’t believe their eyes. They’d… Read more
Five and a half years ago, when Brian Tierney fronted a local group that bought the Philadelphia papers from McClatchy (which bought them temporarily from Knight Ridder), media watchers worried that his public relations perspective would constrict coverage of… Read more
Stacy Green couldn’t sleep last night. Her partner Drake Martinet had just proposed to her at a French restaurant in San Francisco, and said he had a special valentine for her that would be published on Mashable and
A couple of tweets, discovered well after we all learned that Whitney Houston had died Saturday, illustrate a challenge journalists face in a breaking news situation. How do we find key sources, particularly eyewitnesses, in those first minutes and hours… Read more
Salisbury Post Editor Elizabeth Cook felt compelled Wednesday to change the headline and lead of a story about an 11-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted.
The headline originally read, “Mother finds daughter performing sex act on man staying… Read more
The Republican presidential hopefuls were not the only ones in a race during the Nevada caucuses. The Associated Press and Google were also competing to see whether an innovative technology company or an established news outlet could report election results… Read more
CNN contributor Roland Martin released a second, more somber apology late Monday night after he was criticized for comments he posted on Twitter that many say were homophobic and promoted gay bashing.
Martin said he is “truly sorry” and… Read more
There were plenty of Super Bowl ads this year that featured fast cars, scantily-clad women and cute animals.
But Chrysler’s “Halftime in America” commercial stood out because of the writing and narration that drove it. The two-minute ad, narrated by Clint… Read more
People click on celebrity news stories, photo galleries, and videos of cute cats, but they say they’re craving something deeper: news about the economy.
The Project for Excellence in Journalism found that the economy was the top story… Read more
Reporter Jay Hamburger’s beat is county government in the 7,500-population hamlet of Park City, Utah – but anything goes when the Sundance Film Festival kicks in.
“How could I forget my story, ‘Lady Gaga-dressed man arrested at Occupy protest… Read more
