Al Tompkins
May 22, 2013
11:55 am
In 42 years of Oklahoma City weathercasting, KWTV’s Gary England estimates he has tracked more than 1,000 tornadoes, and without a doubt, that estimate is “on the low end.” When he started his TV career in 1972, he wrote on … Read more
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Julie Moos
Feb. 10, 2013
5:25 pm
Brian Snyder had no idea his storm photo appeared on
the front pages of four major newspapers this weekend until people started sending him links about it, he said by phone Sunday afternoon.
- These four papers (and a few more) featured Snyder's photo on Saturday's front page.
A senior photographer for Thomson Reuters,
Snyder has covered five presidential campaigns, the Super Bowl, and most recently a snowball fight between students at Harvard and MIT.
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Julie Moos
Feb. 9, 2013
8:44 am
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Andrew Beaujon and Julie Moos
Feb. 8, 2013
4:01 pm
The New York Times will drop its paywall tonight to provide unlimited, free access as readers seek information about
the massive winter storm hitting New York and the northeast.
"We're planning to drop the meter at 6 tonight & re-evaluate the situation tomorrow evening," said Vice President of Corporate Communications Eileen Murphy by email.
The Wall Street Journal is dropping its paywall as well, it says in an email:
Due to anticipated delivery disruptions because of the winter storm, The Wall Street Journal will be dropping its paywall beginning tonight at midnight through the weekend.
The Times plans to reinstate its paywall at 6 p.m. Saturday, Murphy said by email.
The WSJ and Times
dropped their paywalls during Hurricane Sandy too.
The Times remained free for five days due to the storm.
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Andrew Beaujon
Feb. 8, 2013
11:28 am
The New York Times
As a massive winter storm begins to hammer New York and New England, a line of defense is forming: meteorologists who won't call the storm "Nemo," the Weather Channel's name for it.
"Not on your life," says WJLA-TV meteorologist Bob Ryan. "We're not using that arbitrary name for the storm. It's meaningless," says Washington Post weather editor Jason Samenow (resolve at the paper's Capital Weather Gang
did not prove as strong). "No, we will not be using that," said a person who answered the phone on the assignment desk at Boston's WCVB. "I won't do it. LOL," David Epstein, who writes
a weather blog for The Boston Globe, tells Poynter in an email.
The airwaves, printways and CMSes of affected areas may remain Nemo-free, but there's one sphere where the name is bandied about freely:
Social media.
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Jeff Sonderman
Oct. 29, 2012
3:14 pm
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom tells us via a spokeswoman: "There are now 10 pictures per second being posted with the hashtag #sandy -- most are images of people prepping for the storm and images of scenes outdoors."
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total photos posted as of now:
PandoDaily's Sara Lacy asks whether "Hurricane Sandy ... could be
Instagram’s big citizen journalism moment."
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Craig Silverman
Oct. 29, 2012
3:10 pm
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Jeff Sonderman
Oct. 29, 2012
11:02 am
As Hurricane Sandy barrels up the East Coast Monday, news organizations are creating special online coverage.
Here are some of the creative ways journalists are trying to help the public get through the storm.
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Andrew Beaujon
Aug. 22, 2012
11:42 am
Miami New Times |
Society for News Design |
Miami Herald
Hurricane Andrew made landfall in Florida 20 years ago this week. Chuck Strouse
talks with fellow former Miami Herald reporters about how they covered the big storm. That coverage won them the 1993 Public Service Pulitzer, a high point in the newspaper's history. Lizette Alvarez remembers being in a hotel in Florida City where guests had to "dash from room to room as the roof flipped off in chunks." Ileana Oroza remembers an interaction with a subscriber the next day:
It was about 8 a.m. when the phone rang. One of the editors answered, and after a few seconds, said in a pleading voice: "Sir, we just had a hurricane." The caller was an annoyed reader asking why his newspaper hadn't been delivered.
Here are some visual highlights from the Herald's coverage, from the Society for News Design :
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Jeff Sonderman
Apr. 17, 2012
3:45 pm
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