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Blog Post Archive
Untangling Obamacare: Rate shock!?
Covering Obamacare poses big challenges for journalists, from piercing government spin and deciphering GOP rhetoric to unraveling and simplifying the complexities of insurance. Today we begin a series of posts that aims to help reporters, editors, and the public understand what this law is really about and how it is being implemented. Will insurance premiums go...
More of Jessica Lum's work
Jessica Lum's life and career were cut short, but she left a lot behind. Here's a sampling of some of her work: Her website, JessicaLum.com (click the photo below to go to the site): Her work for Mission Local, one of UC Berkeley j-school's hyperlocal news sites (click the photo below to go to...
Opening Shot
I'm not you, babe When Thatcher passed away, some tweeters who opposed her politics celebrated using the hashtag #nowthatchersdead. However, the unfortunate lack of capitalization led many to mistakenly think that pop star Cher had died--they read the hashtag as "Now that Cher's dead." The campaign originated at the site IsThatcherDeadYet, whose final answer, YES,...
Empty calories
(Illustration by Daniel Chang) If you've spent time with anyone under 25 recently, you will have noticed that they get their news from their friends on their phones--much of it from social-media feeds. At the same time, more and more journalism shops that underwrite enterprise reporting are starting to lock their wares behind paywalls....
Letters to the editor
Editor in chief's note 'The journalism community deserves diversity, but why aren't we getting it?" asked Farai Chideya, moderator of CJR's April 3 panel about race, class, and social mobility at the Newseum in Washington, DC. Many thanks to the ACLU for supporting the event, and to Farai and her fellow panelists Raquel Cepeda, Gene Policinski, Richard Prince, and...
An ink-stained stretch
Betting man Kushner bought the Register cheap and is investing in it heavily, including one of the biggest hiring sprees in newspaper history. Will it pay off? (Jeb Harris / Orange County Register) Rob Curley, one of the more prominent digital journalists of the last decade, had just about had it with newspapers. Tired of laying people...
Sticking with the truth
The damage done A study by Andrew Wakefield, right, helped fuel media attention to the vaccine-autism story, until Brian Deer exposed his work as deeply flawed. (Left: Courtesy of Brian Deer; Right: Anthony Devlin / Associated Press) In 1998, The Lancet, one of the most respected medical journals, published a study by lead author Andrew Wakefield,...
On the job
Ground war Following a raid in Ramadi in 2006, a US soldier watches over an Iraqi man who collapsed after being arrested. (Guy Calaf) Michael Kamber's new book, Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq, is a vital record of a conflict that will shape America, and Iraq, for decades to come. Kamber, who...
'See you on the other side'
Her time Jessica Lum was a journalist for the new century, an empathic reporter who told timeless stories with digital-age tools. (Courtesy of the Lum family) On September 22, 2012, Jessica Ann Lum took the stage to accept her award for Best Feature in the student-journalist category from the Online News Association. As the lights in the...
Sree Tips
Q: There seem to be new social media platforms released every week. How do you decide which ones, if any, are worth using? A: There are already too many social media platforms, and we're just getting started. There's no need to be among the first to join any of them. My policy is not to join any of these right...
The back page
Bonjour, cherie, get me rewrite On a good night, as deadline neared in the bullpen on the rue de Berri, an editor would bark, 'We need a back page. Half an hour.' (International Herald Tribune Archive) They're going to bury my newspaper. The International Herald Tribune is dead. Once upon a time, this wonderful, irreverent, and forever-iconic,...
Steams of consciousness
(Daniel Chang) My first encounters with journalism were the same as most American males: through the sports pages. Sometime in middle school I started picking up The New York Times on my parents' dining table during breakfast and reading the Sports section to catch up on the Yankees and Knicks. West Coast games were...
Hard numbers
72 percent of all US adults who say the most common way they hear about news from family and friends is through "word of mouth" 23 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds who say they primarily get news from family and friends via social media 43 percent of tablet users who say they are consuming more news since getting...
Old news
(Daniel Chang) Ben: Tell me about your media diet when you were young. Jerry:?As a kid, I read the newspapers that my father brought home: The New York Times and his evening papers of choice, the World-Telegram and the New York Post. There were seven papers in New York back then, segmented somewhat by...
Cause and affect
(Data courtesy of DoSomething.org) Who says kids are apathetic and don't care about the news? Well, kids do--but their behavior suggests otherwise. A 2012 TBWA Worldwide survey found that 56 percent of all young adults described themselves as "activists." Last year in the US, 2.4 million teens participated in campaigns organized by DoSomething.org,...
That's incredible
"A lot of students believe all news is created equal," says Alan Miller of the News Literacy Project, which helps kids learn to assess the information they encounter. "At a younger age, they sometimes believe that if someone put it online, it must be true." Older high-school students grow more wary of "bias, whether personal, commercial, or ideological."...
Open Bar
Sabra Ayres Gandamack Lodge Kabul, Afghanistan Although the bar's official name is the Hare and Hound Watering Hole, most people know it as The Gandamack. Year opened?2001. The founder of the lodge, Peter Jouvenal, was a cameraman working with the BBC's John Simpson when the Taliban were ousted from Kabul. Hordes...
Language Corner
The witness, according to the news story, said the robbers were "plum crazy." Not unless they were robbing a green grocer. (It was a McDonald's.) A "plum" is a fruit, usually of a deep purple color, also called "plum." When dried, "plums" used to be known as "prunes" until prunes got a marketing department and became known as "dried plums."...
The importance of counting stories
One of the cold, hard facts of media punditry is that no one can read everything—or should be expected to—so any assertion about a publication or any group of them is going to be just that, an assertion. Is BusinessWeek better now that it's Bloomberg BusinessWeek? Probably, but that's just an impression, even if commonly held....
Honey, I shrank the IRS
Last week, we pointed to a piece of news that we have yet to read or hear from most major news organizations: The federal budget deficit is going to take a hit, because Congress included the government's fundraising arm, the Internal Revenue Service, in the sequester. Put in proper context, meanwhile, that story is a bigger...