Andrew Beaujon
May 13, 2013
10:48 am
Quinnipiac University |
The Weekly Standard |
Associated Press
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We're getting the big stories wrong, over and over again," CBS Evening News anchor and Managing Editor Scott Pelley said at a Quinnipiac University lunch Friday. The first example he gave was one of his own mistakes: Reporting Nancy Lanza was a teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
After the Boston bombings last month, "amateur journalists became digital vigilantes," Pelley said.
Innocent people were marked as suspects, their pictures and their names ricocheted all over Twitter and Facebook and Reddit. That fire that started on the Internet spread to our more established newsrooms as well. In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today. We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea. When the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We have lived in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not. Twitter, Facebook and Reddit: That's not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.
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Craig Silverman
Jan. 30, 2012
12:37 pm
Near the end of her Thursday night show, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow issued an on-air correction for a mistake made the night before.
It seems that she mentioned a CBS poll about the State of the Union speech that indicated viewers … Read more
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Jim Romenesko
Aug. 11, 2011
4:22 pm
TVNewser
A CBS News promo that debuted today claims the network invented original reporting on TV. The ad, says Merrill Knox, "will surely irk the competition at ABC and NBC." Here's what its says:
What is original reporting? It's finding your own facts, seeing them first hand; telling the story no one else will -- or can.
It's not just reporting what others are reporting. It's substance over showmanship. It's what we do at CBS News every Sunday, and every day of the week. But hey, it's not like we invented original reporting on television. [Cut to an a black-and-white image of an old "60 Minutes" set] Oh wait; yes we did.
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Jim Romenesko
June 15, 2011
10:52 am
Romenesko Misc.
The partnership establishes a joint team of political reporters to follow presidential candidates throughout the 2012 election season, says a release. "The new team will report for CBS News, cbsnews.com, and nationaljournal.com, providing coverage from the field with online dispatches, video and social media updates. Reports will appear on both organizations' Web sites."
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Jim Romenesko
May 3, 2011
10:25 am
CBSNews.com
"CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley" debuts on June 6. CBS says he'll continue to report stories for "60 Minutes." The network's release says: "Few reporters have made as wide and as deep a mark on a news organization as Pelley has at CBS News, where he's covered everything from breaking national news stories to politics to wars and served as the network's chief White House correspondent." Since joining "60 Minutes" in 2004, half of all the major awards won by the show have been for stories reported by Pelley.
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March 24: Pelley is the leading candidate for Couric's job
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Dan Rather in 2008: Pelley would be a good Couric replacement
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Jim Romenesko
Apr. 26, 2011
2:52 pm
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Jim Romenesko
Apr. 26, 2011
1:07 pm
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Jim Romenesko
Apr. 11, 2011
2:24 pm
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Jim Romenesko
Apr. 11, 2011
8:50 am
Albany Times Union
Andy Rooney, who recently turned 92, still goes to his office Monday through Saturday. "He stopped driving into the city from his home in Connecticut and now takes a cab from a Manhattan apartment, a begrudging concession to being a nonagenarian," writes
Paul Grondahl.
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Jim Romenesko
Apr. 11, 2011
7:35 am
New York Times
“It still seems more likely NBC will keep Matt," says one of
Bill Carter's sources. "But it’s not out of the question.” The Times reporter says even if a reunion with Lauer doesn't happen,
Katie Couric is all but certain to commit to the syndicated talk show and leave CBS News. || The Wall Street Journal
is also reporting a possible Couric-Lauer show.
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