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| Archived Since: | January 30, 2012 | |
Blog Post Archive
Emilio Garcia-Ruiz named managing editor of The Washington Post
Emilio Garcia-Ruiz is The Washington Post’s new managing editor in charge of “digital initiatives and operations, video, the presentation departments of photo, graphics, and design, and the multiplatform editing desk.” Executive Editor Marty Baron made the announcmement to staffers today. … Read more
Readership, alliances up at other New Orleans news outlets in last year
Friday morning The Lens ran a photo essay looking at print habits of New Orleanians in the year since The Times-Picayune announced it was reducing staff and print frequency. I decided to check in on some of the city’s … Read more
Article pages should ‘be as captivating as the front page’: Polygon developer on new design
Head to Polygon’s home page, and you’ll be greeted with an image-heavy front page. Click on any of the articles, and you’ll experience a redesigned website meant to focus on speed and accessibility. The new interface allows readers to … Read more
Anti-Koch protesters rally in Beverly Hills
Los Angeles Times | Baltimore Brew | Huffington Post | Bloomberg People upset by the possibility of Charles and David Koch buying Tribune’s newspapers held a rally in Beverly Hills, Calif., Thursday, marching to Tribune Chairman Bruce Karsh’s home. … Read more
On 1-year anniversary of Times-Picayune announcement, photographer looks at print readership
The Lens | Media of Birmingham One year ago today, spurred by a New York Times story, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune announced it would reduce staff and print frequency. Photographer Bevil Knapp took a look last June at … Read mor...
Pennsylvania’s governor will write column for Philly.com
The Philadelphia Inquirer | Philly.com Pa. Gov. Tom Corbett will have a regular space on Philly.com’s “New Voices” platform, the company announced Thursday. He’ll produce “photo essays, videos and columns, highlighting the Governor’s perspective in addressing state issues of … Read more
Report: Attorney general signed off on warrant for Fox News reporter’s records
Report: Attorney general signed off on warrant for Fox News reporter’s records… Read more
Twitter can now target viewers of specific TV shows with ads
Twitter | All Things D | The Wall Street Journal Twitter will use “video fingerprinting technology” to track who was tweeting about a show, then direct ads to that person. Whenever a commercial airs during a TV show, … Read more
Anthony Weiner’s website apparently shows Pittsburgh skyline
The Washington Post | NBC New York | Capital New York Times political reporter Michael Barbaro made a compelling observation about New York mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner’s website on Thursday: It seems the banner image isn’t of New York, but … Read more
Online campaign raises $15,000 for reporter who was shot in New Orleans
An online fundraising effort for New Orleans freelancer Deborah Cotton met its $15,000 goal within four days. While some of the donations came from her friends and family, others came from people who have never met Cotton. Cotton was shot … Read more
Knight grants $1 million to expand library of TV news broadcasts
Knight Foundation The Knight Foundation has given $1 million to the Internet Archive so it can expand its TV News Search & Borrow project, a library of television news broadcasts. The expansion will help Internet Archive make the library more … Read more
Denver Fox affiliate, Examiner.com hoaxed by story of man being mistaken for a terrorist
TVSpy | Perazzi | KDVR | KUSA | Examiner.com Denver TV station KDVR, a Fox affiliate, broadcast a story Saturday that claimed an Italian shotgun-company executive “was taken in for questioning by law enforcement” after a taxi driver mistook him … Read more
T Magazine photos held to a different standard, New York Times says
New York Times New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan has followed up on her May 13 post about photo standards in T Magazine following editor Deborah Needleman’s Photoshopping comments. In the May 13 post, Needleman said she thought a … Read more
Baltimore police reporter Dick Irwin dies
The Baltimore Sun | The Real Muck Former Baltimore Sun police reporter Dick Irwin died Wednesday. He was 76 and had complications from diabetes. Irwin retired in 2010. Peter Hermann, now a reporter at The Washington Post, marked the … Read more
Oakland thieves hit another news van
SFGate | Oakland Tribune Thieves busted into a KGO-TV news van Tuesday in Oakland, Calif. They also hit the car of a security guard hired to protect the crew. “No cameras or expensive gear was taken, just personal items including … Read more
What it’s like to get your phone records seized by the government
Gregory J. Millman writes about the IRS nabbing his phone records in 1991: “Outside the DOJ, any law-enforcement entity with subpoena power can obtain phone records without notice.” To this date, I do not know how many of my phone … Read more
NYT: Scroll Kit developer ‘is bragging’ about copyright infringement
Cody Brown | TechCrunch Cody Brown received a takedown request from The New York Times’ legal department after he posted a video showing how to replicate the “Snow Fall” experience using his tool Scroll Kit. After he answered that … Read more
How NPR made its ‘Arrested Development’ graphic: ‘We like to build useful stuff’
Adam Cole is not an “Arrested Development” superfan: “I have friends who are much more into it than I am,” the NPR reporter said in a phone interview. But Cole took a scientist’s eye to the cult television series, which … Read more
San Francisco Chronicle changes style on ‘illegal immigrant’
The San Francisco Chronicle changed its style on “illegal immigrant” Monday. It’s the latest of several publications to reconsider the term. The newspaper’s new style will “essentially match” the Associated Press’ style on the term, David Steinberg, copy desk … Read more
AP photographer: ‘For a moment, there was hope in the devastation’
AP photographer Sue Ogrocki talks about photographing children at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday. In the 30 minutes that I was outside the destroyed school, I photographed about a dozen children pulled from the rubble. I focused … Read more