May 2011
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PBS NewsHour: Memorial Day Reads →
newshour: If you need something to read or watch you’re in luck: Reporter Molly Finnegan whipped up a list of some of our great Memorial Day related stories. ‘The Returning Dead’: “Each night I make a drink and wait for them/ They have become the day’s concluding news” -Wyatt Prunty wrote the “The…
May 30th
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May 30th
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18 of 26 Joplin Globe reporters lost their homes... →
rubenfeld: chels: The Globe Publisher Michael Beatty was quoted by the paper as saying employees began reporting for work minutes after the tornado hit, redoing Monday morning’s edition and making it to the press just one hour late. “It was amazing,” Beatty said in the story. “These people came in who had lost their homes completely. But they were just dedicated to their jobs, to getting the...
May 30th
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May 30th
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May 28th
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May 28th
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What I Learned In Joplin
thedeadline: I’m going to write this in a stream of consciousness, the same way I experienced Joplin. It was my first time covering — more accurately, trying to cover — a disaster. The National desk knows I am a weather geek, so I came close to covering the tornadoes in North Carolina in April, and then the tornadoes in Alabama earlier this month. But the timing wasn’t right. This time, it...
May 27th
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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“What
 you’re
 looking
 for,
 ultimately,
 are
 stories. 
Statistics,
 to
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– Nate Silver [The Man Who Made Me Less Afraid of Numbers], in a lecture to graduates of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.  (via hannahmiet)
May 22nd
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'Postcards From America' →
Magnum’s “documentary experiment” makes me want to drop everything and road trip across the country with my camera.
May 21st
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sportsnetny: “The world cannot end tomorrow. You know why? Because it can’t end at least until the Knicks win a championship again. We’ve got a long time to go!” - NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg A long time to go indeed lol
May 21st
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“Some people when they look for a job in journalism ask themselves, What do I...”
– Robert Krulwich’s commencement speech at Berkeley’s School of Journalism. (via nprfreshair)
May 19th
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I Know, It's Been Awhile
But it’s finals week. I’ll be back soon.
May 19th
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wnyc: How to blow your own mind: watch the trailer for Brooke Gladstone’s new graphic novel The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media! -A.P. Got this book over the weekend and I love it. Definitely recommend.
May 19th
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“Well, paint us Beliebers.”
– New York Mag’s Daily Intel, in learning President Obama can in fact keep a promise he made to a little girl, who had high hopes of meeting one Justin Bieber. (via newsweek)
May 13th
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All Your Love Are Belong to Me: Re: Rape Jokes →
allyourlovearebelongtome: I actually had a productive conversation about rape jokes the other day. This guy is a friend of a friend, and he’s constantly using the word “rape” instead of “own” or “destroy.” He always apologizes to me when he says it, because I usually give him a Look, but I knew he really just did not get…
May 13th
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May 12th
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May 12th
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The Cheat Sheet: From Andrew Sullivan’s blog: The... →
newsweek: cheatsheet: From Andrew Sullivan’s blog: The Dish is looking for two interns to help with editorial content, assist with remedial tasks, and work on larger projects. Interns will be full time (37.5 hours a week) and will be paid an hourly wage of $10.25. The position, unlike many internships, includes… …benefits! It includes benefits. Uh, WOW.
May 12th
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"In Tender Moments, a War’s High Cost" →
“I know that he’s doing his job,” Isaac says, “and I really like that he’s over there. But what I don’t like is that I don’t get to see him in person.” For an instant, it appears as though Isaac is about to cry. But he recovers his composure, exhibiting a grace and strength that few adults can command — and a skill that no 12-year-old ought to possess. An excellent multimedia piece by Marcus...
May 12th
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May 10th
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May 8th
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“So, you guys are the last graduating class from the CU J-school. And I’m the...”
– That’s ESPN’s Rick Reilly giving the graduation speech for Colorado University’s journalism school. It’s the last graduation from the school, which decided to close in order to re-work the curriculum to better prepare graduates for this changing journo world. Reilly dubbed his speech more of a...
May 7th
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May 7th
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On the Road with Invisible Children's Tri-state... →
“Learning how to drive in New York City in a 15-passenger van, I feel like I can do anything,” said Meagan Shorey, one of the van’s four daily passengers. “But driving around the van is funny because you are so huge, and yet you somehow have to zip around. I think we really work on our finesse.” Check out my latest audio slideshow, about a group of young adults who live out of van for 10...
May 6th
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Because I wasn’t already bummed about missing next semester’s digital SLR videography class, they showed us this video in class today. I love it. Love it, love it, love it, love it. I want to do this for the rest of my life. (Not the wedding video part, but the storytelling with beautiful imagery part)
May 6th
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May 6th
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Hidden Workshops Add to Libyan Rebels’ Arsenal in... →
Check out pics of some of the weapons mentioned at Chivers’ blog.
May 5th
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live… We look for the sermon in the...”
– JOAN DIDION, “The White Album” (via judydark)
May 4th
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May 4th
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thedeadline: Yes, the theatrical trailer is out for “Page One.” I can’t believe it. June 17! donohoe: Page One: Inside The New York Times Synopsis Andrew Rossi’s riveting documentary Page One: Inside The New York Times had its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, and was acquired by Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media for theatrical release this June. In the tradition of...
May 3rd
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May 3rd
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“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via memegan) ^ Apparently, this is fake (LA)
May 3rd
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“Live is not ‘yet another thing’ for a working journalist to understand, it is...”
– —Emily Bell. I like this. (via thedeadline) Yes. Absolutely.
May 3rd
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May 2nd
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May 2nd
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“I feel a great deal of satisfaction that justice has been done, and I admire the...”
– Former NYC Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, in a Politico post. (via joshsternberg)
May 2nd
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May 2nd
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STATEMENT BY FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH →
nationaljournal: Earlier this evening, President Obama called to inform me that American forces killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of the al Qaeda network that attacked America on September 11, 2001. I congratulated him and the men and women of our military and intelligence communities who…
May 2nd
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May 2nd
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May 2nd
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“I believe the journalism education industry needs to massively take a look at...”
–  Will Sullivan, on a problem at many institutions: profs who turn their nose up at digital tools.
May 2nd
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Love this. I’m a big believer in using design to attract and engage audiences. In the long run, changing how newspapers look probably won’t do much to keep circulation numbers from declining, but that’s not the point - as the talk shows, people respond well to things that look pretty, that work and that are easy to use. It’s a concept that applies to print and electronic...
May 2nd
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May 1st
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Pencil vs. Camera.
May 1st
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