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How J-schools are helping students develop entrepreneurial journalism skills

James Breiner — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:08:24 +0000

Universities around the world are teaching a relatively new subject – entrepreneurial journalism.

The revolutionary changes reshaping journalism have driven the industry to search for new financial models and respond to marketplace demands. Journalism schools are part of that search: … Read more

Police use Twitter to relay news, communicate with journalists more quickly

Andrew Beaujon — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:56:27 +0000

As protesters rioted in Seattle on May 1, Seattlepi.com reporter Casey McNerthney noticed that tweets from the police were hitting his phone almost at the same time officers in front of him were issuing orders to him and other … Read more

Why the Justice Department ‘better have a damned good explanation’ for seizing AP phone records

Al Tompkins — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:11:29 +0000

The Department of Justice’s seizure of two months’ worth of Associated Press phone records stinks. It smells like retribution against the AP for its May 2012 report about how the CIA foiled a bomb plot that targeted a U.S.-bound aircraft … Read more

Is Truth-O-Meter the real issue in Maddow’s latest blast at PolitiFact?

Eric Deggans — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:37:40 +0000

The Tampa Bay Times’ fact-checking site PolitiFact has drawn another heated rebuke from MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow, who accuses it of “ruining fact checking” and being “truly terrible.”

But at the risk of looking like a homer — the Times … Read more

Charles Ramsey interviews reveal risks of jumping on a good story too soon

Eric Deggans — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:00:30 +0000

What big media gives, it can take away just as quickly.

That’s the feeling in the air as some news outlets continue chewing over the story of Charles Ramsey, the struggling dishwasher who became a media hero and Internet sensation… Read more

What news organizations are learning from partnerships aimed at diversifying content, audiences

Taylor Miller Thomas — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:36:48 +0000

News organizations are approaching diversity from many angles — from increasing diversity in coverage and sourcing to reaching out to new audiences on new platforms.

Three efforts in particular have focused on partnerships and grants to achieve these ends. Digital … Read more

Daily newspaper circulation totals ‘do not capture the full story’ anymore

Rick Edmonds — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:52:18 +0000

On Tuesday, the Alliance for Audited Media (formerly ABC) will announce circulation totals for American newspapers, as it has done in regular six-month cycles for as long as I can remember.

I will hazard a guess about the results, but … Read more

Last rite of friendship: A journalist lobbies for an obit

Roy J. Harris Jr. — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:59:16 +0000

Mark Twain once called reports of his death exaggerated. But what can be done if the media doesn’t give a person’s actual passing the serious attention it deserves?

: Martyl Langsdorf (courtesy Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which published an appreciation

New AP interactive editor: Multimedia needs to be ‘central to developing the story,’ not an afterthought

Joshua Gillin — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:37:21 +0000

As the Associated Press’ new interactive editor, Troy Thibodeaux brings to the role the varied experience you’d expect of a former travel writer, English teacher and member of the NOLA.com and Times-Picayune team that won a Pulitzer for Hurricane Katrina … Read more

New ESPN ombud Robert Lipsyte talks about his role

Eric Deggans — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:14:58 +0000

Ask if Robert Lipsyte is going to be particularly critical as ESPN’s new ombudsman, and he mentions a little piece he penned for Slate magazine back in June 2011. The piece dismantles the 763-page oral history of ESPN, “Those … Read more