Blown Covers. Pulitzer Prizes: Unlikely Los Angeles Times duo wins Pulitzer Prize for Bell coverage - Page 2. When the city of Maywood's finances and staffing started to come unglued, the call went out for a veteran to team with Vives, who had been assigned just months before to cover the working-class cities of Southeast Los Angeles County — cities filled with a lot of people with backgrounds just like his. The match was made. Last July, Vives and Gottlieb walked into Bell City Hall. The city administrator, Robert Rizzo, wouldn't see them, which seemed a bit odd. They instead met with City Clerk Rebecca Valdez. Gottlieb whipped through a list of documents the duo demanded to see. Valdez talked about taking the full 10 days to fulfill the request.
Gottlieb talked about suing and making the city pay court costs, when it lost. Rizzo finally relented and agreed to a meeting. When Gottlieb asked Rizzo how much he made per year, the answer came out with a cough: "$700,000" (actually closer to $800,000). James.rainey@latimes.com. Barry Michels, Therapist for Blocked Screenwriters. The writer was in despair. For a year and a half, he had been trying to write a script that he owed to a studio, and had been unable to produce anything. Finally, he started seeing a therapist. The therapist, Barry Michels, told him to close his eyes and focus on the things he was grateful for.
The first time he did this, in the therapist’s office, there was a long silence. Michels also told the writer to get an egg timer. A few weeks later, the writer was startled from his sleep by a voice: it sounded like a woman talking at a dinner party. Michels, in the words of a former patient, is an “open secret” in Hollywood. Michels is fifty-seven and trim, with a clipped beard surrounding his mouth and silver hair that ripples back in waves from a high forehead. As he finished his training, Michels, already disenchanted with what he felt was the passivity of traditional therapy, met Stutz, who became his supervisor. But simply being a Stutz patient confers status. 10 bonnes résolutions journalistiques. Pour arrêter de regarder passer la révolution numérique qui emporte les médias, tonton Van Achter a listé pour 2012 dix points qui pourraient changer notre manière de faire du journalisme à mettre sous les sapins de toutes les rédactions !
La recommandation par les pairs est l’un des phénomènes les plus puissants révélé par la “démocratisation de la diffusion”. En 2012, pour les journalistes, et ceux qui aspirent à le devenir, justifier sa place de médiateur de l’information passe donc immanquablement par une plongée en apnée dans le grand bain des réseaux sociaux. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Soundcloud, Storify… sont donc AUSSI le terrain. Je n’ai pas de baguette magique mais voici 10 pistes qui me semblent intéressantes à creuser. 1) Trouvez-vous un binôme, un partenaire, un homme/femme de confiance avec qui le courant passe bien. 2) Partagez et donnez à voir de vous tout ce qui permettra aux internautes de sentir de quel bois vous vous chauffez. 4) Testez, expérimentez, bidouillez.
Quoi ressemble l’internet en 2012 - Summify. Voilà 20 ans que le web existe. Conçu par Tim Berners-Lee à la fin des années 80, les premiers sites web sont apparus en 1992. Vingt ans plus tard, Internet est devenu l’un des canaux de communication les plus utilisé, et très certainement le média de référence du XXIème siècle. Je pars du principe que vous avez tous une bonne connaissance du web et de ce que l’on peut en faire, par contre avez-vous à votre disposition des données chiffrées récentes ?
C’est justement ce que je me propose de faire avec cette compilation de nombreuses études statistiques et sociologiques publiées en fin d’année. La France compte près de 49 millions d’internautes, soit 75% de sa population. Une étude Insee publiée en novembre 2011 nous en apprend un peu plus sur les temps de connexion : Les Français passent en moyenne 2h30 par jour devant un écran, majoritairement la télévision pour les tranches d’âge supérieures, mais majoritairement devant un ordinateur pour les 15-24 ans. Steve Jobs’s Real Genius. Not long after Steve Jobs got married, in 1991, he moved with his wife to a nineteen-thirties, Cotswolds-style house in old Palo Alto. Jobs always found it difficult to furnish the places where he lived. His previous house had only a mattress, a table, and chairs. He needed things to be perfect, and it took time to figure out what perfect was. This time, he had a wife and family in tow, but it made little difference.
“We spoke about furniture in theory for eight years,” his wife, Laurene Powell, tells Walter Isaacson, in “Steve Jobs,” Isaacson’s enthralling new biography of the Apple founder. It was the choice of a washing machine, however, that proved most vexing. Steve Jobs, Isaacson’s biography makes clear, was a complicated and exhausting man. Isaacson begins with Jobs’s humble origins in Silicon Valley, the early triumph at Apple, and the humiliating ouster from the firm he created.
Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused to wear it.