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 YouTube Launches
Citizen Journo Channel

YouTube Direct service aims to connect editors with video

Nov 17, 09 6:35 AM CST
(Newser) - A new YouTube service aims to make it easier for citizen journalists filming everything from celebrity antics to natural disasters to connect with news outlets. The YouTube Direct service allows news outlets to request, verify, and rebroadcast video from YouTube users. NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Politico were among... More »

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YouTube • online videos • journalism • Citizen journalism • YouTube Direct

Student Journos in Court Over Murder Investigation

Northwestern's acclaimed Innocence Project under fire

Nov 11, 09 10:40 AM CST
(Newser) - A group of Illinois journalism students found themselves in court yesterday, accused of flirting with and paying off sources during a 2003-2006 investigation for the Medill Innocence Project. The Northwestern students claim to have uncovered evidence exonerating Anthony McKinney, convicted in 1982 of murdering a security guard. Both sides went... More »

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murder • journalism • Illinois • wrongful conviction • journalist • Innocence Project • Northwestern University • Anthony McKinney

Times Star Sorkin: Too Cozy With
Wall Street?

Colleagues clash with Too Big to Fail author

Nov 9, 09 12:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Andrew Ross Sorkin isn't the only entrepreneurial writer in the New York Times stable, but he might be the most successful, with his DealBook blog and newsletter, his Times column, and now his bestseller, Too Big to Fail making him ubiquitous in the media these days. “It’s hard... More »

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Wall Street • New York Times • journalism • Graydon Carter • financial crisis • Andrew Ross Sorkin • Too Big to Fail • business reporting

NYT Cozied Up
to Spitzer Staff Amid Scandal

Emails reveal friendly exchanges between reporters, sources

Nov 4, 09 1:53 PM CST
(Newser) - The New York Times may have broken the news that Eliot Spitzer had a prostitute problem, but it was awfully nice to Spitzer’s staff amid the scandal. Gawker used New York’s open records law to snag a huge number of emails between reporters and Spitzer’s people,... More »

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journalism • Eliot Spitzer • public relations • Gawker • journalistic ethics • David Paterson • source

Clarence Page

Actually, Fox Is
a Legit News Operation

Obama must start following through on campaign promises

Oct 25, 09 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Risking his wife's wrath, Clarence Page has to admit he agrees with Sean Hannity. The Fox News host has correctly called President Obama on the disconnect between campaign rhetoric and the attempted boycott of Hannity's employer. "It is disingenuous for right-wing pundits to accuse Obama of dividing the country,... More »

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television • media • cable TV • White House • journalism • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • Obama administration • President Obama

New York Times to Cut 100 Newsroom Jobs

Newspaper forced to reduce journalistic staff by 8%

Oct 19, 09 4:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - In an effort to continue cutting costs, the New York Times will eliminate 100 jobs from its 1,300-person newsroom. The paper will offer buyouts before instituting layoffs if necessary, executive editor Bill Keller said in an email to his staff. The move comes on the heels of an across-the-board... More »

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New York Times • journalism • buyout • revenue • newsrooms • newsroom cuts

media rare

Logical, Ethical Lapses Beset Washington Post

Op-ed page woes spread to editorial on Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 16, 09 4:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - The next-to-last straw was the Washington Post editorial saying Neda Agha Soltan should have won the Nobel Peace Prize, which isn't awarded posthumously. The last straw was today's op-ed raising—but not bothering to answer—the question of whether President Obama can even accept the honor without violating the Constitution.... More »

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Iran • Washington Post • journalism • Constitution • George Will • Nobel Peace Prize • President Obama • William Kristol • Neda • Neda Agha Soltan • Fred Hiatt • Anne Applebaum

OPINION

 Fox Ain't News, It's 
 'the Opposition Party' 

Other media outlets need to highlight 'propaganda:' Boehlert

Oct 13, 09 1:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - “Fox News has exited the journalism community this year,” Eric Boehlert writes. “It's a purely political player,” which would be all well and good if other media outlets would just report that. As it stands, Fox goes happily about its “propaganda” while hiding behind... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • propaganda • journalism • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • health care reform • town hall meeting • right wingers • Obama administration • birther • teabaggers • opposition party

OPINION

Once-Great Politico Sinks Into Sensationalism

Polanski piece shows site's 'clicks are king' mentality

Oct 9, 09 5:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - For a while there, Politico seemed to be the best new media journalism had to offer—hard-nosed investigations with a smart, web-centric approach. But lately, it’s been falling prey to the anything-for-a-click mentality you’d normally associate with the Drudge Report or Huffington Post, writes Andrew Sargus Klein. A... More »

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Barack Obama • media • journalism • Roman Polanski • DNC • Politico

OPINION

 How to Keep Gourmet Alive 


Oct 5, 09 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cookie and Modern Bride are getting the ax, but it's Conde Nast's shuttering of Gourmet that has floored and disappointed readers and non-readers alike. That includes Fast Company's Kate Rockwood, who shares a few ideas for keeping America's oldest food magazine alive—in some form.
  • Move to television: One
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television • media • travel • Whole Foods • magazine • journalism • PBS • Conde Nast • Gourmet

OPINION

 New Safires 
 and Cronkites 
 Needed, Not 
 Ranters: Noonan  

Time for the next generation of media elders to put the national debate on an even keel

Oct 2, 09 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Elder statesmen of the media like Walter Cronkite and William Safire are dropping at an alarming rate, and their replacements need to step up, writes Peggy Noonan. Ranters on the right and the left—like MSNBC's Ed Schultz, who says Republicans "want to see you dead"—are proliferating,... More »

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journalism • journalist • Walter Cronkite • Irving Kristol • William Safire

APPRECIATION

Safire Was No 'Nattering Nabob of Negativism': Dowd

They don't make 'em like Safire anymore, writes Times colleague Dowd

Sep 30, 09 7:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bill Safire, to use the phrase he coined, was anything but a "nattering nabob of negativity," writes his New York Times "colleague in columny" Maureen Dowd. The former Nixon speechwriter—who once told Dowd he had been frozen out by the Times' liberal writers until he... More »

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New York Times • conservative • journalism • columnists • William Safire

obituary

Times Columnist William Safire Dead at 79

Ex-Nixon speechwriter, Pulitzer winner was forceful voice on right

Sep 27, 09 1:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist William Safire died today outside Washington, the paper reports. He was 79 and suffered from cancer. A onetime speechwriter for Richard Nixon, Safire, a self-described "libertarian conservative," used his background as a reporter and love for English usage to punch up his... More »

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cancer • New York Times • obituary • Pulitzer Prize • Richard Nixon • journalism • death • grammar • political coverage • word usage • William Safire • New York Times Magazine • wordplay

OPINION

 Stossel: Yeah, I'm Biased. So? 

Every reporter is, latest Fox hire opines

Sep 25, 09 3:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - When John Stossel announced he was leaving ABC for Fox News, many complained he was “biased.” His response? “Every reporter has political beliefs,” he writes for Reason Online. “The difference is that I am upfront about mine.” For example, most media outlets call President... More »

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journalism • Fox News • libertarian • ABC News • media bias • President Obama • John Stossel

 Fox Reminds DC Staff 
 They're Journalists 

Workers warned against creating news  after producer pumps up tea party crowd

Sep 22, 09 1:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fox News reminded its staff to follow journalistic standards after a producer was caught on camera whipping up a crowd at a tea party protest, Mediaite reports. Bill Sammon, the channel's vice-president of news, sent staff at Fox's DC bureau an email warning: "We do not cheerlead for one... More »

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protests • journalism • Fox News • cable news • tea parties • Griff Jenkins

 Meet This Year's 
 MacArthur 'Geniuses' 

Journalists, scientists, artists among 24 awarded $500K grants

Sep 21, 09 9:07 PM CDT
(AP) - A newspaper reporter who refuses to forget decades-old murders is among 24 recipients of this year's $500,000 MacArthur Foundation "genius grants." As in previous years, a wide variety of fields are represented on the list of recipients: There is a novelist and an applied physicist, a photojournalist... More »

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journalism • civil rights • MacArthur Foundation • MacArthur Grant • geniuses • artists • Jerry Mitchell

(Newser) - Who says journalism is dead? Sure, newspapers are slashing newsroom staff and shutting down bureaus, Simon Dumenco writes in Advertising Age, but there’s still one booming sector: hate. “Everything is a hate beat these days, because everybody is consumed with hating on everybody else.” And you... More »

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media • Michael Vick • journalism • reporter • Richard Fuld • newspaper industry • Jon and Kate Plus 8 • Jon Gosselin • Kate Gosselin • old media • hate • beat

'Worst Sports Column Ever' Author Sorry, Sort Of

Calif. scribe used Jaycee as news peg

Sep 10, 09 2:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Orange County Register sports columnist is the talk of the blogosphere and the Twitterverse—and not in the good way. Mark Whicker used his Tuesday column to reminisce about the sports events of the past 18 years under the guise of catching Jaycee Dugard up on "what you've... More »

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social networking • Google • kidnapping • rape • abduction • journalism • Twitter • child abduction • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Mark Whicker • Orange County Register • sports columnist

OPINION

 Dear Diane, 
 Save the News— 
 Nix the Anchor Job 

Sawyer shouldn't take post with 'marginal' journalistic worth

Sep 4, 09 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nightly network news is fading into irrelevance—and if Diane Sawyer wants to make a difference in the media, she should turn down Charlie Gibson’s job so ABC can pay for some real reporting, writes Jack Shafer for Slate. The broadcasts have essentially become infotainment, an expert says, “... More »

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media • journalism • ABC News • Diane Sawyer • news anchor • reporters • Charlie Gibson

OPINION

 Can the Catty Remarks
 on Clinton's Weight

Focus on appearance is dragging down both politics and journalism

Sep 1, 09 8:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Remarks like Tina Brown's recent crack on MSNBC that Hillary Clinton "needs to get back in the gym," are dragging public debate down to a high-school level, Chloe Angyal writes at SpliceToday. Nobody's looking too hard at the waistline of male politicians or diplomats, Angyal notes, but... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Michelle Obama • women • Tina Brown • sexism • journalism • journalist • female politicians • Laura Ingraham • Meghan McCain

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