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“@JeffSmithABC7Cloud-to-ground lightning over Manhattan via one of our roof cams! @eyewitnessnyc”
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Naval Academy graduates listen to President Obama, then throw hats
(GIF video via Jim Long / NBC News)
In a speech to the graduating class...
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Anonymous asked: What are your thoughts on Libertarians?
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“The kids want to know why the Boy Scouts have this policy. We talk about how people have a variety of beliefs and values. We also talk about how...”
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Three great Tumblrs: Reporthers, Journos of Color, and Flip the News
Here are three great Tumblrs that focus on women and people of color in the...
Hat tip to this headline writer.
[the entire article]
We shouldn’t publish full articles unless we have to (say, if the article gets taken down). A couple of key paragraphs is fine. People can click to read the rest. And the folks that don’t want to will just miss out.
You like Ezra Klein as a writer? Don’t take away his traffic. I don’t mean to pick on anyone, and this isn’t directed at anyone in particular, but it happens far too often on Tumblr. We have to start somewhere, right? So why not here? — Ernie @ SFB
“Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.” - Scott Pelley
On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, we’re revisiting this video, which we first posted several months ago — it’s NBC News’ Chief Foreign Correspondent, Richard Engel, detailing to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow the horrifying tale of how he was abducted by pro-Assad forces within Syria, and how he came to be freed. Engel is one of the lucky ones (extremely lucky, considering the content of his story) — 23 professional journalists have been killed covering the civil war, the majority of them Syrian, on top of dozens more slain citizen journalists.
Whoa!
“The conventional media approach is, ‘We do our thing, and you consume it’—it’s one-way,” says Mark Coatney, who launched Newsweek’s highly regarded Tumblr account when he was a Web editor there in 2008. “Effective media organizations on Tumblr interact with the audience as equals.”
This new form of engagement can pose some challenges. On Newsweek’s Tumblr site, Coatney cultivated a punchy, irreverent tone and often discussed controversies swirling around Newsweek itself, such as the news that the magazine had been put up for sale. That kind of personal, informal voice might clash with the sensibilities of a straitlaced newspaper, wire service, or network news program.
My quote isn’t all that great, but there’s some really smart things said by others in Ben Adler’s nice CJR piece.
(via markcoatney)(via markcoatney)
Cover, Boston Magazine, May edition.
… Part of the reason that we still want CNN to be great is that at a moment when information and news seem to have done a jailbreak — bursting forth everywhere in all sorts of ways — it would be nice to have a village common where a reliable provider of news held the megaphone. By marketing itself as the most trusted name in news, CNN is and should be held to a higher standard.
Read: NYTimes
“Like a lot of writers, I get my hate mail, but this doozy still managed to surprise me.” - @carr2n (David Carr - NY Times)
