Public fear and ‘an abundance of caution’
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October 31, 2014
Making Sense of News
Disputes over crime maps highlight challenge of outsourcing public data
Colin Drane is an unlikely warrior in the fight for open government. An inventor and…
May 22, 2013
Boston explosions a reminder of how breaking news reporting is changing
Terrible events such as yesterday's bombings at the Boston Marathon have always meant "all hands…
April 16, 2013
Gosnell story raises questions about when national media should cover local stories
The media question of the day is why the Philadelphia trial of Kermit Gosnell is…
April 12, 2013
Are you really willing to go to jail over your anonymous source?
When reporters want my advice about whether to grant a source anonymity, this is the…
April 10, 2013
Three lists about BuzzFeed’s serious journalism
A little more than a year ago, BuzzFeed made the leap into the realm of…
April 4, 2013
Why railing against CNN for the Steubenville coverage is a waste of time
Momentum is building against CNN for clumsy things anchors said about the teenagers convicted of rape…
March 19, 2013
Powerful photo essay on domestic violence stirs backlash
A photo essay vividly documenting domestic assault lit up the Internet this week after Time…
March 1, 2013
Fake news: Pig rescuing goat is really a dog
Dave Itzkoff of the NYTimes asked me last week to look at a 30-second video…
February 27, 2013
A tale of two cop-killer hunts shows shifting role of Twitter from Seattle to LA
Three and half years ago, the Seattle-Tacoma area was paralyzed as police searched for a…
February 15, 2013
As renegade cop support pages crop up, Facebook, journalists make choices
Facebook pages are springing up in support of Christopher Jordan Dorner, the former Los Angeles…
February 8, 2013
Would you snap a picture or pull the man to safety?
The Internet blew up with righteous criticism of the New York Post for publishing a…
December 5, 2012
NY newspapers follow story of cop, boots and barefoot man
(Updated Monday morning with NYT interview of the homeless man.) Some stories break. Others, as…
December 2, 2012
How a photo spread of NYPD officer helping homeless man
During a visit to New York's Times Square this week, tourist Jennifer Foster snapped a…
November 30, 2012
New website helps viewers see how news is skewed
With 60 percent of Americans saying they do not trust mainstream media to fully, accurately…
November 15, 2012
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