Taylor Miller Thomas
May 21, 2013
12:03 pm
The San Francisco Chronicle changed its style on “illegal immigrant” Monday. It’s the latest of several publications to reconsider the term.
The newspaper’s new style will “essentially match” the Associated Press’
style on the term, David Steinberg, copy desk chief at the Chronicle, said in an email to Poynter.
Chronicle journalists are now advised not to refer to a person as “illegal” or as an “alien;” instead, “illegal” should only be used in describing the means by which they entered the country, and only with proper attribution.
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Andrew Beaujon
May 7, 2013
9:59 am
The New York Times
William Yardley's
May 3 obituary for Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman now sports a correction that will make many metalheads happy:
An obituary on Saturday about the guitarist Jeff Hanneman, a founder of the band Slayer, misspelled the name of one of the bands with which Slayer has toured. It is Megadeth, not Megadeath.
Times obituaries editor Bill McDonald says in an email that he wasn't aware of any outcry from metalheads over the goof -- Yardley realized his mistake and alerted the desk, he writes.
Correction: This post originally said the Facebook page for the book "Louder Than Hell" took partial credit for getting the typo corrected; "We took credit for setting the record straight re: the fact that Hanneman is NOT a Nazi sympathizer," co-author Katherine Turman tells Poynter in an email.
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Andrew Beaujon
May 6, 2013
1:11 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
May 2, 2013
11:37 am
Maynard Institute
Ginger Thompson's April 29 story about a
former a drug war informer includes a button marked
"Leer en Español". That's not new, Times spokesperson Stephanie Yera tells Poynter: "Stories are published in the Spanish language via The New York Times News Service & Syndicate or translated into Spanish, and translators are credited at the end of our articles," she writes in an email. "This practice is not experimental, and it's something we've also done in Portuguese and Chinese."
"The New York Times has published stories in Spanish on NYTimes.com for some time, either in conjunction with special projects or because it has simply made sense editorially," Yera writes. This past February, Yera notes,
another story carrying Thompson's byline was
available in Spanish as well.
The presentation of Thompson's article appears to take advantage of the Times'
planned redesign of its article pages.
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 25, 2013
8:52 am
The New York Times Co. |
The New York Times Co. |
The New York Times
The New York Times Co.
unveiled "a series of strategic initiatives" Thursday morning concurrent with its first-quarter earnings report.
Among the planned initiatives are the next phase in The Times’s digital subscription/paid products strategy; an international expansion under the new unified brand; and a renewed emphasis on both video production and brand extensions.
Among the new products, to be introduced at the end of this year and the start of 2014: a "lower-priced paid product designed to allow access to The Times’s most important and interesting stories" and an "enhanced tier that would offer extras at a higher price point to 'all digital access' and print subscribers."
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 24, 2013
5:18 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 24, 2013
9:13 am
Dylan Byers'
big "Turbulence at The Times" story, about the news organization under Executive Editor Jill Abramson's leadership, has the look and feel of world-beating Politico scoop.
It mixes anonymously voiced insider accounts with a few protesting on-the-record sources to paint a picture of a newsroom so buffeted by personality conflicts that it just barely won four Pulitzer Prizes and calmly and accurately guided readers through the Boston bombings.
The festering conflict at the heart of all this triumph? Executive Editor Jill Abramson.
In recent months, Abramson has become a source of widespread frustration and anxiety within the Times newsroom. More than a dozen current and former members of the editorial staff, all of whom spoke to POLITICO on the condition of anonymity, described her as stubborn and condescending, saying they found her difficult to work with.
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Andrew Beaujon
Apr. 22, 2013
3:45 pm
The New York Times
The New York Times' Lede Blog published a call for help last Wednesday: "Are you visible in any part of
this image recorded on Monday afternoon or do you know someone who was there?"
"We got about 10-15 responses from the public call-out," says Times Sports Editor Jason Stallman via email.
The resulting piece, "4:09:43," lets readers click on a name of someone who was at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, and in some cases hear their stories. They couldn't use some of the responses: "We committed to featuring only those individuals who were in the specific 4:09:43 image," he writes. "Some people who reached out to us were just outside the frame."
- The project features photos of people from the image, along with audio.
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