Source: j-source.ca Kim Covert remembers the “dead silence,” broken by muffled crying. She and two dozen other copy editors were clumped around the large central table in Postmedia Network Inc.’s newswire office in Ottawa. The group, which gathered national and international news and copy edited it for use in Postmedia newspapers across the country, gaped at the company’s vice-president of editorial …
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Source: ifj.org The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today said that 2012 has been one of the bloodiest years for journalists and media workers after recording 121 killings in targeted attacks and cross fire incidents. The IFJ warned that these terrible numbers are the result of systematic failure by governments and the United Nations to fulfill their international obligations to protect …
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Source: poynter.org You may have heard the story of Rhonda Lee, a meteorologist at Shreveport, La., TV station KTBS who was fired for responding to viewer criticism on Facebook. The firing raises some old and new questions about how journalists should (or shouldn’t) engage online with caustic critics and troublesome trolls. Click the link to read the entire story @ poynter.org
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Source: ocregister.com By FRANK MICKADEIT COLUMNIST / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER This is the Thanksgiving column I never thought I’d write. You’ve seen what’s happened to newspapers. As we’ve struggled for relevancy in the digital age with one hand and fought off the recession with the other, we became something less. At the Register, our Web presence grew and we got the most-important …
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Source: poynter.org An accusation is often more newsworthy than the recantation. So should a news organization make an effort to ensure the new information is given the same prominence as the original? It’s a question that arose this week after the unnamed man who leveled underage sex allegations against Kevin Clash, the voice and puppeteer of Elmo on “Sesame Street,” recanted …
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Source: thetyee.ca Eight pager formatted much like news, but Stead offers slim explanation. By: By Jonathan Sas, 22 October 2012, TheTyee.ca View full article and comments: http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2012/10/22/Globe-Oil-Sands-Advertorial/ “Journalism, commercial interests should be kept separate.” So ran the headline of a post written by the Globe and Mail’s public editor Sylvia Stead on Sept. 27. In the midst of the uproar over Margaret Wente’s …
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Source: niemanlab.org After being sold over the summer, the newspaper is hiring about 50 editorial staffers and adding new print sections — because print’s where the money is. Why did the Orange County Register send reporters and photogs to cover 40 — yes, four-zero, 40 — high-school sporting events in one weekend? No, it’s not another news mob. Nor is it a one-time thing. At …
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Source: cnn.com Every woman who’s worked in an office has her story about discrimination or, as they say in the HR confabs, “inappropriate behavior.” Mine is the day I was chatting with colleagues in a newsroom some years back when I suddenly felt two meaty hands massaging my shoulders. Read entire story
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Source: fogcityjournal.com When longtime reporter Bill Snyder joined a panel of fellow labor journalists during Laborfest, he brought along a copy of Moby Dick. When it was his turn to speak about the issues journalists face today, Snyder opened the book to an earmarked passage and began to read. “Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a …
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Source: editorandpublisher.com by: Jeff Fleming Local news continues to be the mainstay when it comes to solving newspapers’ 21st century challenges. The newest report by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and Internet & American Life Project revealed that “72 percent of adults are quite attached to following local news and information, and local newspapers are by far the …
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