Steve Myers
May 1, 2012
11:13 am
Georgia Institute of Technology | Poynter
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new research paper says celebrities played an important role in spreading the news of Osama bin Laden's death one year ago tonight. Researchers tracked which accounts were mentioned in tweets about bin Laden and found that there were three distinct patterns. Mentions of "media people" spiked first, but they were soon outpaced by official media accounts. Celebrity mentions grew more slowly, but those figures became dominant as time went on and media mentions declined. "While media people and the mass media compete to be the first to report the news, celebrities use their social influence to help spread the news and stimulate discussions," researchers conclude.
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- This graph shows mentions of three user types as news spread of bin Laden's death on the night of May 1, 2011. ("Breaking News on Twitter," Mengdie Hu et. al.)
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Steve Myers
May 1, 2012
6:51 am
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Jim Romenesko
June 1, 2011
8:24 am
Washington Post
The agreement was hammered out quietly last week between the White House’s press office and the White House Correspondents’ Association, reports
Paul Farhi.
News photographers will now be permitted to designate a single representative to act as a “pool” for the entire press corps. The photos taken by the pool representative will be made available to all news organizations. Reporters use a similar pool system for presidential events in which space is limited.
New York Times photographer
Doug Mills, who negotiated on behalf of journalists, calls this "an excellent solution" because "we will have still photos taken during the actual address by a news photographer."
Kenny Irby, Poynter’s visual journalism faculty,
said two weeks ago that the easiest option would be to move to a single-camera pool. Some photojournalists who spoke with Poynter.org in mid-May said they opposed that approach for still images because it limits photographers’ storytelling options and creativity. The White House decided to stop re-enacting photos for still photographers after
AP and Reuters photographers described how the president made his speech about Osama bin Laden's death to a single TV camera, then pretended to speak for the still cameras.
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Adam Hochberg
May 18, 2011
11:19 am
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Adam Hochberg
May 16, 2011
6:49 am
President Obama had not yet officially announced the death of Osama bin Laden before bloggers and pundits began speculating about its impact on the 2012 election.
“The news that Osama bin Laden has been killed — on Obama’s watch — … Read more
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Steve Myers
May 13, 2011
5:28 am
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Jim Romenesko
May 11, 2011
11:27 am
Romenesko Misc.
AP senior managing editor
Michael Oreskes says "the scene was like something from a Hollywood blockbuster."
Two ace reporters huddle in a taxi cab, racing off to mine separate sources for details of this most extraordinary of stories. A cell phone rings. On the other end is yet another source, calling back with an exceptional detail -- the name of the courier who inadvertently led the U.S. to the world’s most-wanted man. This is huge. But it’s not quite enough confirmation. So the reporters split up and call more sources. And they nail it. They head to a public Wi-Fi spot to file.
Oreskes says "for their outstanding journalism and helping the AP shine on this remarkable story,"
Matt Apuzzo,
Kim Dozier,
Adam Goldman,
Eileen Sullivan,
Abdul Rehman Achakzai and
Julie Pace win this week’s AP "Beat of the Week" award and its $500 prize. || Read the memo.
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Jim Romenesko
May 10, 2011
10:23 am
The Atlantic Wire |
National Press Photographers Association
The Associated Press
has filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the photographic and video evidence taken during the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, explaining that it would like to see the material and compare it with other things that the public is being told about the raid both by U.S. officials and officials in other countries. AP senior managing editor
Michael Oreskes says:
We're not deciding in advance to publish this material. We would like our journalists, who are working very hard, to see this material and then we'll decide what's publishable and what's not publishable based on the possibly that it's inflammatory.
In the week since the raid there's been a whole series of story-lines about what happened in this raid. At this point, anything that might shed more light on what occurred is potentially quite newsworthy. So we would like this imagery to fully understand what happened during this event.
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Al Tompkins
May 9, 2011
3:21 pm
When Steve Kroft interviewed President Obama last week about the raid on Osama bin Laden’s headquarters in Pakistan, the “60 Minutes” veteran violated many of the guidelines that we teach about how to conduct an interview. And it worked.
Why? … Read more
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Julie Moos
May 6, 2011
6:37 am
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