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Money Sports • Iowa Caucus Preview; Media Mob Invades Iowa; Rise in Negative Coverage of Ron Paul; Rise in Negative Coverage of Ron Paul; Life on the Campaign Trail • Romney Mounts Media Blitz; Christiane Amanpour Exits "This Week"; Media Reaction to Tebow's Open Display of Faith; TIME Person of the Year • Newt Draws Anger on Airwaves; Hyping the Budget Drama; Interview with Andrew Sullivan; Interview With HuffingtonPost Canada's Danielle Crittenden
Media Access Project
Please join MAP on Tuesday, February 7th, 9:30 am-12:30 pm at the Pew DC Conference Center for part two of MAP’s fifth annual Forum Series. The entire series is free and open to the public. Continental breakfast will be available. Please RSVP to Mera Szendro Bok at mera@mediaaccess.org Ben Scott, Policy Advisor for Innovation at the Office of the Secretary of State, US Department of State Bob Boorstin, Director, Corporate and Policy Communications...
SourceWatch
Here's what they're saying about SourceWatch: "The folks at the Center for Media and Democracy have done incredible work documenting fake grassroots ("astroturf") groups . Here, they're helping protect the rights of all Americans to exercise their right to vote . They are completely non-partisan. These guys are the real deal."Media Alliance : Index
Eritrea leads the world in imposing censorship on the media, followed closely by North Korea, Syria and Iran, according to a journalism group.
Media Watch
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Jan. 31 A young journalist for the Tribune Company becomes a product manager and money maker by acting entrepreneurially inside a large organization. Her big idea: Teaching the Web to the people formerly known as the advertisers.
Pressthink
Media | The New York Observer
For the first time since 1977, no Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction at the 96th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music, announced at Columbia University Monday afternoon. The unworthy finalists were Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams , Karen Russell’s Swamplandia, and the late David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King . The fiction jurors nominating the books were former Times-Picayune book editor Susan Larson, “Fresh Air” book critic Maureen Corrigan and Michael Cunningham, author of the Pulitzer-winning novel The Hours . It was the board’s decision not to award the prize.
Online Journalism Review | Knight Digital Media Center
Great reader comments, tips and blogs can help elevate a news website into a true community, one where people come together to learn from each other, enjoy each others' company and maybe even help address some of the "real-world" problems that any community faces. Of course, on the flip side, trolls and know-it-alls can make reading the comments on a website a visit to virtual hell. So when some of your readers begin to tick you off - either for what they do, or what they don't - here are 10 things to remember... after you've taken a deep breath. You can't force readers to care No matter how much work you put into a piece, no matter how much news you thought you broke in it, no matter well you think told the story, you simply cannot force readers to care. The best you can do is to think about your readers' needs and interests and then craft an engaging narrative or presentation that rewards whomever pays attention.
Left I on the News
Two weeks ago, Abel Gutierrez, suffering from (and showing obvious signs of) PTSD as a result of multiple tours of duty in Iraq, killed his mother, his sister, and then himself. Today's San Jose Mercury News notes the following interesting observations: "He didn't join the Army because he wanted to kill people," Ramon Bustamante said. "He wanted to do something with his life and help take care of his mom and sister."
How does supporting warlords help create a stable government? Why are we counting the money spent instead of the good achieved? A scholar who has done extensive field research in Afghanistan on the intended and unintended effects of foreign aid writes that reporters are missing some of the key dynamics at play there. For reporters and editors, is there a more important story for democracy in America than the laws making it harder, sometimes almost impossible, for millions of people to vote?
Nieman Watchdog
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Columbia Journalism Review
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
Dan Balz, the Washington Post's chief correspondent ( 5/20/12 ), complains that President Barack Obama hasn't solved America's fiscal problems: Obama has drawn criticism for failing to offer more forceful leadership. He established the Simpson-Bowles commission but declined opportunities at key moments to push and prod for its consideration and enactment. There's an odd syntax here that reflects some slippery thinking. Grammatically, "its" in the second sentence seems like it would refer to the Simpson-Bowles commission, but that would be nonsensical.FactCheck.org
March 30 The misleading assault on the president’s energy policies continues. A conservative group’s TV ad claims “we will all pay more at the pump” because the administration “blocked” the Keystone XL pipeline. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell claims that the pipeline “could have brought 700,000 barrels of oil to the market …Inside the Meter We've created a new page so you can see Truth-O-Meter items that have a correction or update. The page will include articles or Truth-O-Meter ... For tips or comments on our Obameter and our GOP-Pledge-O-Meter promise databases, please e-mail the Obameter .