Great New York Times story about search engine optimization (snore!) and how web headline writers aren’t going for pith and wit anymore, but are loading up on search terms to score as many hits for stories as possible LINK.
NY Post Says Sorry
The New York Post apologized in an editorial for the political cartoon it ran that critics said showed Obama as a chimpanzee. LINK. The cartoon combined two news stories that were big last week: President Obama’s financial stimulus package and a chimpanzee who was shot and killed by police after it attacked a woman, severely mauling her face. LINK.The Post has been in this business long enough to know what the reaction would be to a depiction of Obama as a chimpanzee, even if the reference was an oblique one. So the paper either ran it with the intention of being racist. Or they didn’t believe it was racist and knew that some people might think it was, but ran it anyway. So why then apologize? My students had a theory: for the publicity.
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Reporters Working for Obama
Politico sotory about a number of reporters leaving to go work for Obama LINK.
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Got2BeGreen Looking for Aspiring Journalists
| Got2BeGreen, an environmental blog recently named on TIME magazine’s Top 25 Blogs list, is looking for “aspiring journalists” to contribute. Here’s the graph from the posting :
Got2BeGreen has taken on a new regional focus. Our Green2gether section is dedicated to this effort. We are looking for aspiring journalists for all of the U.S. states and as many countries as possible to post green news and events from their region. |
| Got2BeGreen has readers in over 100 different countries and our visitor count is growing every month. This is a great opportunity to bolster your resume or CV and all of our journalists will have the option of posting a bio page on the site. |
| If you are interested, please use our Feedback Form to contact us and tell us the region that you would like to contribute for. No experience is necessary, we providing training and support. Thank you! |
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Facebook Backs Down
After a firestorm of protest about its new Terms of Use policy, Facebook announces it will go back to its old policy LINK.
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Top Newspaper Websites
The New York Times tops the Neiman Lab’s list of top 15 newspaper websites for 2008 LINK.
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Tabloid Troubles
When journalism professors tell their students not to pay for stories it’s for good reason. Money makes people lie. Here is a case in point. The British tabloids have been all over a story about a 13-year-old boy who fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl. Now, it turns out the 13-year-old may not have been the father after all. But he stuck with the story for the cash LINK.
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Facebook’s New Terms of Service
Be warned: Facebook has changed it’s terms of service. Whatever you post is now theirs LINK.
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Blogs in Plain English
A great tutorial about blogging from Common Craft..
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Abraham Lincoln
Originally uploaded by George Eastman House
Check out the free Library of Congress pictures on Flickr.
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Phoenix New Times Falls for Hoax Tattoo Story
The Phoenix New Times was forced to run a retraction for its cover story about the NBA imposing a cap on the number of tattoos players can have. They based the story on information they learned in a BLOG! LINK.
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A-Rod Expecting Media Frenzy
Alex Rodriguez is due for training in Tampa on Tuesday and expected to face the media for the first time since he admitted using performance-enhancing drugs LINK.
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Charlie Rose and the Future of Newspapers
This just in from my new friend Fara Taye Warner: one show out of an occasional series on the future of newspapers LINK.
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You Tube White House Channel
Did you know there was a You Tube White House channel? Tune in for President Obama’s weekly address.
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Buffalo News Coverage of Plane Crash
The Buffalo News mobilized 75 people to cover the Thursday night plane crash, pulling people off features. The website has youtube footage, blogs. It’s a great showcase for multimedia journalism LINK.According to the Poynter Institute’s Al Tompkins, there’s also some social media coverage.
WNYMedia has a photo feed flowing photos online, and there is a Flickr feed. Witnesses quickly posted videos on YouTube, and Facebook groups began forming to support the victims’ families and share information. (Facebook login required).”
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