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Amateur MTV Journos to Cover Election

Hipsters aim to grab eyeballs lost to bloggers, Daily Show

Jan 12, 08 7:37 PM CST
(Newser) - MTV is banking on enthusiastic amateurs to make it the go-to source for hip election news. The "Street Team"—51 mostly-under-25 journos armed with laptops, digital cameras, and camcorders—have been deployed to recapture eyeballs and cachet lost to bloggers, Comedy Central, and YouTube, while "redefining journalism,... More »

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television • online media • MTV • journalism • blogger • Election 2008 • young voters

OPINION

Regan's Claim Reveals the
Real Fox

Suit could end Fox masquerade of  neutrality: Tomasky

Nov 20, 07 7:11 PM CST
(Newser) - After 11 years of “the rabbit hole fiction” that Fox News is unbiased, the  jig may be up, claims the Guardian’s American editor, Michael Tomasky. An admitted liberal journalist himself, Tomasky thinks it's time Fox stopped pretending not to be a conservative voice, as its audience clearly understands... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • OJ Simpson • journalism • Fox News • Judith Regan

Why Sam Zell
Is Still High
on Tribune

Ducati-riding magnate tells the New Yorker
his deal's golden

Nov 10, 07 6:24 PM CST
(Newser) - Billionaire real estate magnate Sam Zell, legendary for turning around distressed properties, is likely to have his riskiest play—the struggling media giant Tribune—in his hands by year’s end. The financials have only gotten worse since he made the deal, but the "extravagantly confident" Zell isn't showing... More »

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oil • real estate • Sam Zell • Chicago • Tribune Company • journalism • Los Angeles Times • print journalism

Senate Shield Law Would Cover Bloggers

Controversial new measure defines 'journalist' broadly

Oct 5, 07 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Senate bill that passed the Judiciary Committee yesterday would give bloggers the “reporter’s privilege” of protecting their sources. The federal shield law defines journalism broadly enough to include bloggers who write about public affairs. Critics, including US attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, say the bill would undermine national security,... More »

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Congress • online media • Senate • House of Representatives • journalism • blog • blogger

Couric in Iraq: Lousy Ratings, Good Journalism

Despite anchor's road trip, 'Evening News' ties record ratings low

Sep 12, 07 6:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Katie Couric's trip to Iraq and Syria was a failure as a ratings gimmick but pretty good journalism, say critics. The "CBS Evening News" tied a record low of 5.5 million viewers last week, which the network blames on US Open coverage. And Harvard journalism prof Marvin Kalb... More »

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Iraq • television • Syria • Katie Couric • CBS • journalism • reporter • Evening News • Sean McManus • news anchor

Paper Lacked 'Smoking Gun'

Past allegations were only printed after Minnesota bathroom incident came out

Aug 30, 07 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Howard Kurtz does a post-mortem of the Idaho Statesman's decision not to print the results of a major investigation into Larry Craig's past sexual misconduct until after the sentator's arrest for soliciting was made public this week. While the writer, Dan Popkey, admits to feeling Craig's pain, says he says... More »

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newspaper • journalism • Larry Craig • Idaho Statesman • Dan Popkey

Murdoch Sets Crosshairs
on Times

Billionaire Journal owner hopes to
poach business from Gray Lady

Aug 13, 07 5:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the ink still drying on his takeover of The Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch is already setting his sights on the New York Times—the current newspaper of choice for the Northeastern elite. The Australian tycoon is planning to challenge the Times by expanding the Journal's "coverage of... More »

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newspaper • Rupert Murdoch • New York Times • advertising • Wall Street Journal • journalism • price war

Army: New Republic
Scribe Lied

But magazine stands
by private's diary
from Iraq

Aug 8, 07 10:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - The military and the New Republic are at a standoff over the accuracy of a series of damaging diaries by an Army private in Iraq. Army investigators say they're fabricated, that no one in the unit corroborated his stories about petty cruelty among soldiers. But TNR Editor Franklin Foer told... More »

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Iraq • military • fiction • journalism • US Army • Weekly Standard • New Republic • Scott Thomas Beauchamp

Times Will Eliminate
Pay Access to TimesSelect

Op-ed columnists to burst out from behind firewall

Aug 7, 07 11:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The New York Times will shut down TimesSelect, the pay section of its website that keeps columnists such as Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich beyond the reach of the great unwashed. The fate of the $7.95-a-month subscription service sparked hot debate among publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and other Times ... More »

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Internet • newspaper • New York Times • news • journalism • TimesSelect • paid content • Maureen Dowd • Frank Rich • Arthur Sulzberger Jr.

Bloggers of the World, Unite?

Proposal to unionize provokes (surprise!) mixed reactions from online community

Aug 6, 07 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Some liberal bloggers are attempting to rally their keyboard-hammering brethren and form the first bloggers' union, an organization whose exact configuration is unclear. Some envision the group as a traditional labor faction that would fight for health benefits and recognition within the media, the AP reports, while others want a... More »

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media • blogosphere • labor • journalism • union • National Writers Union • blogger

Why the Whims of Matt Drudge Move the Media

And why the 'idiot
with a modem' now lives in a $1M condo

Aug 4, 07 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Every day journalists in newsrooms across the country hope, pray and scheme to enhance the chances that one man will notice their breaking news. That man, Matt Drudge, controls Internet traffic so vast that a mention drives hundreds of thousands of readers to a single story. The same MSM types... More »

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media • Internet • wealth • Matt Drudge • news • journalism

Husband Is Suspect in Disappearance

Case of missing Chicago woman embroiled
fired TV anchor

Jul 13, 07 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police named a suburban Chicago man a “person of interest” yesterday in the disappearance of his estranged wife, citing his lack of cooperation and their fears of foul play. Craig Stebic, who reported last seeing his wife on April 30, twice refused to let investigators talk to their children... More »

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divorce • journalism • Amy Jacobson • Lisa Stebic • Craig Stebic • disappearance • NBC5 Chicago • CBS2 Chicago • Plainfield, Illinois • missing person • journalistic ethics

Murdoch May Have Killed Story on Wife

Shafer ponders journalistic ethics
of Journal suitor

May 11, 07 9:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch may have muscled an Aussie mag into dropping a profile of his third wife, Slate's Jack Shafer speculates. Good Weekend suddenly jettisoned a 10,000-word piece on 38-year-old Wendi Deng last month, after paying writer Eric Ellis $25 grand for the heavily-researched story. More »

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ethics • Rupert Murdoch • Dow Jones • Wendi Deng • journalism • journalistic ethics

(Newser) - The looming Murdochization of the Wall Street Journal highlights what people should have realized long ago, writes Gary Weiss: just how disastrous public ownership is to the newspaper business. Every time that investors' bottom lines are matched against journalistic integrity, journalism gets tramped. "The only solution," he says,... More »

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newspaper • Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • journalism • privatization • pubic ownership • newspaper industry

Web Muckrakers Fight Corruption in China

Freelance journalists hired by citizens stay one step ahead of censors

May 2, 07 2:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new breed of journalist is evolving out of China’s censored media: the web-based hired gun. The Washington Post reports on freelance muckrakers who investigate corruption the mainstream press can't touch and post the results on their sites. They're paid—if meagerly—by the aggrieved parties. More »

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China • media • Internet • censorship • news • press • corruption • blogging • journalism • censor • blog

Local TV Pushes Fake Medical News

Hospital-produced promos are passed
off as news reports by local stations

Apr 25, 07 8:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - TV stations across America broadcast fake medical news stories that are really ads produced by providers to tout their new techniques and procedures, according to an investigation by the Columbia Journalism Review. “I kick, scream, and fight, and make them as journalistically ethical as possible," says one reporter.... More »

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advertising • hospitals • local news • news • journalism

Halberstam Dies in Car Crash

Prize-winning writer who blended journalism with history was 73

Apr 23, 07 10:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who wrote definitive annals of everything from the Vietnam War to pro football, was killed in a car crash in Menlo Park, Calif., today. Halberstam, who wrote 21 books, was on his way to interview former New York Giants quarterback Y.A. Tittle when... More »

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sports • Vietnam • David Halberstam • obituary • Pulitzer Prize • Menlo Park • journalism • car crash • journalists killed • traffic fatalities

Old News Rules in New China    

Communist propaganda is alive and well in world's fastest-growing economy

Mar 23, 07 2:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Just about the only Western consumer product the Chinese aren't buying these days is news:  they're clinging tenaciously to their stodgy, state-run nighty news program, where not even the hairstyles have changed in decades. More »

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China • television • communism • propaganda • consumer • news • journalism

News Wars

PBS takes on the future of news

Mar 19, 07 5:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - From “infosnacking” to “hyperlocal” news, there is a whole new terminology describing the evolution of news, particularly the move to online news.  The PBS show Frontline has developed a four-part series that examines the ‘News Wars’ taking place all around us.  More »

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television • media • radio • Internet • newspaper • news • Frontline • news distribution • online news • journalism

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