http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/08/npr-executives-caught-on-tape-bashing-conservatives-and-tea-party-touting-liberals/
Interesting article about how NPR executive was caught "bashing" the Tea Party and Conservatives.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
What is Journalism? By the LA Times
What is journalism? As a jour major, I'm interested to see how you'd define the term in an era where the news scene seems to evolve by the second. Thanks!
It’s a great (if philosophical) question.
Journalism is evolving — you are right about that. The technology is more complicated and some of the technologies make the content come at us faster and sometimes in greater amounts. And yet, in the end, people have always sought good stories to read and to write, so that’s the same as it ever was.
In short, pageview, pixel or paper — it’s good storytelling.
Lots and lots of tips! How to submit an op-ed
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/duke_community/oped.html
Ignore the last tip - "Here's a wild guess: You're hoping to publish your article in The New York Times, with The Washington Post andThe Wall Street Journal as backups. Well, welcome to the club. These and other national publications, such as Newsweek and USA Today, receive a staggering number of submissions, the overwhelming majority of which are rejected. You have a better shot at regional newspapers and, especially, at local papers, which almost always give preference to writers from the local area."
Go big or go home, CMC.
Ignore the last tip - "Here's a wild guess: You're hoping to publish your article in The New York Times, with The Washington Post andThe Wall Street Journal as backups. Well, welcome to the club. These and other national publications, such as Newsweek and USA Today, receive a staggering number of submissions, the overwhelming majority of which are rejected. You have a better shot at regional newspapers and, especially, at local papers, which almost always give preference to writers from the local area."
Go big or go home, CMC.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Local and State Coverage
Newspapers
- A large metropolitan daily: The Los Angeles Times
- No longer a locally-owned paper
- Times suburban inserts
- Other dailies
Local broadcast
Non-English sources
- Newspapers
- Television KMEX (Univision), KVEA (Telemundo)
Statehouse exodus
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
The Staffer We Discussed
At Politico, Jake Sherman and Marin Cogan report:
Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of the powerful Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has launched an inquiry into whether spokesman Kurt Bardella improperly shared e-mails from other reporters with a New York Times reporter writing a book on Washington’s political culture, POLITICO has learned.
Bardella has been cooperating extensively with the Times’s Mark Leibovich on the book, and Issa told POLITICO Monday that he would “get to the bottom” of exactly what Bardella shared with Leibovich.
On Tuesday morning, Issa fired Bardella as a result of his investigation.
...Bardella has been of particular interest to reporters and Capitol Hill aides in recent months, after a New Yorker piece quoted him taking credit for his boss’s increased prominence in national politics and making somewhat impolitic remarks about reporters and women.
In his comments to POLITICO, Issa said that Bardella had been "about one nanosecond from not working on Capitol Hill anymore" after the New Yorker piece. Issa said Bardella "would have been fired" if he was not otherwise an exceptional young person.
Bardella also recently had an episode with former Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, now a contributor at The Daily Beast, in which Kurtz published an interview thinking he had been speaking to Issa when he had really been speaking to Bardella.
Kurtz, who later ran a correction for the mix-up, told POLITICO that he remains puzzled as to why Bardella did not correct him when he was addressing him as “Congressman” or when he sent an e-mail after the interview saying “thanks for getting me the congressman so quickly.”
At The New Yorker, Ryan Lizza recalls a key passage from his earlier article:
This long back and forth was the lead-in to a Bardella quote I used in the piece:
[R]eporters e-mail me saying, “Hey, I’m writing this story on this thing. Do you think you guys might want to investigate it? If so, if you get some documents, can you give them to me?” I’m, like, “You guys are going to write that we’re the ones wanting to do all the investigating, but you guys are literally the ones trying to egg us on to do that!”To me that last quote was one of the most important things Bardella told me. The rest of it—that offices clash over how to leak info and that bookers and reporters are competitive—is interesting but relatively well known, and not very relevant to a piece about Darrell Issa. But that Bardella accused reporters of offering to collaborate with Issa as he launches what will inevitably be partisan investigations of the Obama Administration seemed jaw-dropping. This is exactly the dysfunctional investigator/reporter dynamic that in the nineteen-nineties fed frenzies over every minor Clinton scandal. In his short-lived career, Bardella was witness to the fact that it was all starting over in 2011, now that there was again a Republican House and a Democratic President. From what I know of what Bardella shared, the beat reporters who cover Issa and engaged in this kind of game with Bardella will be the ones most embarrassed by the e-mails that Leibovich possesses.
Washington Politics
Bob Novak:
"Humor" that is not so funny when you know the rest of the story:
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Niche journalism
Health care coverageGoing around the MSM
Palin and Death Panels
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Reinventing News
Engage, a DC-based GOP new media firm, has a cool new product that allows users to balance the volume of news content with the wisdom crowds can provide.
It is, "a cheat sheet for the web’s most important news, curated by Facebook." They've integrated news feeds and Facebook like to produce Newsbook--The Big Stories. Sorted. Filtered. Liked.
The web version can be accessed here. It's worth looking at both as an example of how news consumption is changing, and because it's a pretty useful tool.
The blog post about it's release can be read in full here.
It is, "a cheat sheet for the web’s most important news, curated by Facebook." They've integrated news feeds and Facebook like to produce Newsbook--The Big Stories. Sorted. Filtered. Liked.
The web version can be accessed here. It's worth looking at both as an example of how news consumption is changing, and because it's a pretty useful tool.The blog post about it's release can be read in full here.
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