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BaltimoreSun.com A judge has banned "the use of any device to transmit information on Twitter, Facebook, Linked In or any other current or future form of social networking from any of the courthouses within the Circuit Court for Baltimore City." The Sun's Andy Green says the order is predicated on the assumption that posting to Twitter is effectively the same as having cameras broadcast court proceedings. "That analogy is false," he writes.
Posted at 4:15 PM on Feb. 9, 2010
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"Once again, the New York Times is dipping into our deep pool of talent"
Boston Phoenix Boston Globe arts editor Scott Heller is joining the Times as assistant arts editor, overseeing theater and books. "In taking a position in New York, Scott will be moving closer to his family, a goal of his for some time," says a memo to the Globe staff.
Posted at 2:56 PM on Feb. 9, 2010
WH reporters are whining? No story there!
SlateJack Shafer didn't think much of Howard Kurtz's Monday piece about White House reporters feeling bypassed by the Obama administration. "Here's the story Kurtz missed: The White House press corps is, always has been, and always will be a gang of miserable, whining whiners. Like other guilds, they excel at bellyaching when their privileges are canceled -- or even when they think their privileges are in the process of being canceled. .... They exist to be bypassed! > Obama makes surprise stop in WH briefing room
Posted at 2:13 PM on Feb. 9, 2010
Hoge to step down as Foreign Affairs editor at end of 2010
Romenesko Misc James F. Hoge Jr. is leaving Foreign Affairs after nearly two decades to pursue new opportunities in communications and international affairs. He'll chair Human Rights Watch, starting in October, work with an international consulting firm, and teach at New York University's Center for Global Affairs.
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Posted at 1:20 PM on Feb. 9, 2010
A lot of people claim they watch "NewsHour," but....
Daily Texan Online Newsweek editor Jon Meacham was asked at a Texas Monthly event how to get the news media to return to delivering intelligent news. He used PBS's "NewsHour" an example, and said if the number of people who claim to watch the program actually did watch it, the show would have much higher ratings. "It's fundamentally a supply-and-demand problem. There’s an infinite demand for something and a limited supply for intelligent something."
Posted at 12:02 PM on Feb. 9, 2010
"The Chronicle's not closing down anytime soon"
SFGate.com "I don't say that because I make the decisions, that's just my belief and my observation," says former San Francisco Chronicle executive editor Phil Bronstein. "I want to make that clear. And anything I tell you could be completely wrong or change tomorrow."
Posted at 11:03 AM on Feb. 9, 2010
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Why did Goldman Sachs use Huffington Post to respond to NYT?
True/Slant | Reuters.com"Why doesn't it tackle the Times on its home court [and] buy ads in the business section to tell its side of the story?" writes Claudia Deutsch. "A muddled PR response in the Huffington Post seems way below the fight-back level I've come to expect from the Bad Boys of Wall Street." || Felix Salmon: What Goldman did was very smart.
Posted at 10:39 AM on Feb. 9, 2010
Schieffer donates memorabilia to TCU's j-school
Daily Skiff Bob Schieffer's press passes that date back to the 1960s, and his reporting notebooks from Vietnam are among the items being displayed in the Schieffer School of Journalism Seminar Room at Texas Christian University. The CBS News veteran "really only had one condition about the memorabilia, and that was that we did not erect a museum," says j-school director John Lumpkin. || Star-Telegram: Schieffer talks about broadcast news changes.
Posted at 9:35 AM on Feb. 9, 2010
People prefer e-mailing articles with positive rather than negative themes
New York TimesThey also like to send long articles on intellectually challenging topics, according to two University of Pennsylvania researchers. "Perhaps most of all, readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated after noticing how many science articles made the list," writes John Tierney.
Posted at 8:01 AM on Feb. 9, 2010
Shafer finds more examples of plagiarism by Posner
Slate Daily Beast investigative reporter Gerald Posner lifted from Texas Lawyer, a Miami Herald blog, a Miami Herald editorial, a Miami Herald article, and a health care journalism blog, according to Jack Shafer. The Daily Beast has suspended Posner while it reviews his articles.
Posted at 7:39 AM on Feb. 9, 2010
Times-Picayune presses are still going, says editor
Editor & Publisher "We are trying to satisfy a demand which doesn't seem to slack," says Jim Amoss. A normal press run for single-copy sales is about 25,000; by noon Monday, the Times-Picayune had printed at least 200,000 copies over that, reports Mark Fitzgerald.
Posted at 3:00 PM on Feb. 8, 2010
Toyota dealers pull ads off ABC stations because of "excessive coverage"
ABC News The dealers in five southeast states shifted their commercial time buys to non-ABC stations in the same markets "as punishment for the reporting" done by ABC News and chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross, according to an ABC station manager.
Posted at 12:30 PM on Feb. 8, 2010
"We need the Baffler more now than ever," says editor
Chicago Tribune "That contrarian attitude toward culture, that scoffing attitude that people associated with us -- the plan now is to revive it," says Baffler founder Thomas Frank. A new issue of the magazine -- "a quarterly publication that only came out once a year" -- is slowly making its way to bookstores.
Posted at 11:54 AM on Feb. 8, 2010
Where's the next generation of media Richie Riches?
AdAge.com Are there any billionaires left who are willing to take losses on worthy media properties? asks Simon Dumenco. "For that matter, how much more patience does the current generation of Richie Riches have left?" Dumenco points out that "a lot of the loudest new players in media have no use at all for billionaire benefactors."
Posted at 8:55 AM on Feb. 8, 2010
Demand Media "has been as close to a safety net as anyone gets in this business"
New York Times That's what Nashville videographer Dimitri LaBarge tells David Carr. (Demand generally pays $15 to $20 per article and $30 per video.) Unpaid Glamour magazine intern and Demand contributor Heather Mayer says: "I wish I could say that I am doing the work for extra money, but right now, it is the only money I have coming in. I'm torn, because they make a pretty good business out of what we do and pay us not much." || Related video.
Posted at 8:41 AM on Feb. 8, 2010
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Stephanopoulos doesn't regret moving to "Good Morning America"
Los Angeles Times "I had real questions about taking this job," George Stephanopoulus tells Matea Gold. "I was wrong. I don't feel like I have really given up so much and I've gained so much more." || Washington Post: "News doctor" Frank Magid, who helped develop "Good Morning America," is dead at 78.
Posted at 8:29 AM on Feb. 8, 2010
Ombud: NYT Jerusalem bureau chief should be reassigned
New York TimesEthan Bronner (left) has a son in the Israeli military. "The Times sent a reporter overseas to provide disinterested coverage of one of the world's most intense and potentially explosive conflicts, and now his son has taken up arms for one side," writes ombudsman Clark Hoyt. "Even the most sympathetic reader could reasonably wonder how that would affect the father, especially if shooting broke out." || Executive editor Bill Keller responds. || Related from the Jerusalem Post. > Goldberg: I'm glad Keller is NYT editor, and not Hoyt
Posted at 8:02 AM on Feb. 8, 2010
WH press feels bypassed by Obama in favor of TV shows, YouTube
Washington Post "It's a source of great frustration here," says CBS White House correspondent Chip Reid. "It's important for us to hold the president's feet to the fire." President Obama hasn't held a full-scale news conference since July.
Posted at 7:32 AM on Feb. 8, 2010
Friday, February 05, 2010 Headlines
– Santa Barbara News-Press owner ordered to pay ex-editor nearly $750,000 in legal fees
– "I understand the shock and awe that some liberals feel about Fox News"
– Additional items for February 5, 2010
– Posner concedes he lifted from Miami Herald
– Two MediaNews papers to start charging in May
– Lois Smith: "I'm so glad I'm not doing publicity now"
– Study: Magazines that cut subscription prices still lose subscribers
– Seattle Times completes renegotiation of debt
– Palin: "Gossip crap" in Anchorage paper "bugs me"
– "George Packer's generally right about Twitter, but..."
– Hedge-fund creditors win round in Philly newspapers bankruptcy case
– Mutter says it again: Journalists should demand to be paid for their work
– Tribune Co.'s KTLA confuses viewers with its valentine to Ford Motor Co.
– "Sawyer has always been the Katharine Hepburn of the newsroom"
– Any journalist who cheerleads uncritically for Twitter is essentially asking for his own destruction
Thursday, February 04, 2010 Headlines
– An e-reader business model that just might work
– LAT loses Pulitzer-winning auto writer Neil to WSJ
– Additional items for February 4, 2010
– Pulitzer would have loved Enquirer's Edwards coverage
– "Breitbart doesn't even exist without the MSM"
– Google News: We'll be happy to work with papers that put up pay walls
– Ex-Detroit Free Press editor Andrews named visiting prof at UNR's Reynolds j-school
– Yahoo to sell HotJobs to rival Monster.com for $225M
– NPR criticized for airing Horowitz's remarks about Zinn
– NYT shouldn't wait until 2011 to launch meter system
– NYO, Las Vegas publisher to put out free weekly
– Why the National Enquirer won't win a Pulitzer
– Report: Blogging "lost its luster for many young users"
– Chicagoan rents an apartment to store her Playboys
– Tackett to take on expanded role in Bloomberg's Washington bureau
– Stewart uses O'Reilly appearance to blast Fox News's Obama coverage
– Murdoch has a new weapon for his battle against NYT
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 Headlines
– Job applications rolling in at eBay founder's Peer News
– "Five years ago, NYT could have bought the best local blogs for a song"
– Additional items for February 3, 2010
– Demand Media veep defends $15 per article pay
– Time Inc. subscription revenue down only 6% in Q4
– CBS News boss denies reports of Couric salary cut
– Can magazines really afford to give away iPads the way SI gave away sneakerphones?
– Kaplan out as Parade magazine editor-in-chief
– Minnesota Law & Politics folds after parent sells Super Lawyers guide to Thomson Reuters
– Mark Cuban to media execs: "Everybody wants to take your content"
– NYer's Packer needs to get over his fear of Twitter
– Critic's reviews of Sundance films lifted from festival guide
– NBC News boss blasts media treatment of Zucker
– Breitbart: "I'm sorry, mainstream media. It's over."
– CBS News cuts surprisingly deep, top producers axed
– See screen shots of Journalism Online's Press+
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