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Waking Up on the Wrong Side of a Rating War (via The New York Times by Brian Stelter)

"One Wednesday last month, Ann Curry, camouflaged in a hat and trench coat, trudged into the art-deco lobby of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. It had been nine months since she was pushed out as co-host of the 'Today' show."

Major breaking news errors giving rise to new responses in Boston coverage (via Poynter by Craig Silverman)

"There is nothing new about the fact that a major breaking news event unleashed a torrent of rumors, hoaxes, reporting errors and misinformation. That some of them still reverberate, and will continue to, is also par for the course."

The Remarkable Decline in the Wall Street Journal's Long-Form Journalism (via The Atlantic by Alexis C. Madrigal)

"I do not have any particular expertise in the inner workings of the Wall Street Journal newsroom, but this chart speaks for itself. It shows the number of stories the Journal published that were over 2,500 words from 2002 to 2011. Dean Starkman of Columbia Journalism Review created the chart and referenced it again today. (He used to work at the publication.)"

Social media and the Boston bombings: When citizens and journalists cover the same story (via Nieman Journalism Lab by Hong Qu)

"In a breaking news situation, journalists get an adrenaline rush. There is a palpable eagerness to get the scoop, to be the first to bring the story to the public. In today’s world of social media, mobile phones, and the real-time 24/7 news cycle, though, journalists face competition from all sides: eyewitness accounts, official sources, and even friends and family are sharing news before mainstream news institutions have 'published' the official news story."

#ConnectChat Recap: Succeed in Freelancing With ASJA (via ProfNet Connect by Maria Perez)

"With the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) holding its annual conference in a few weeks, we thought it would be a good time to catch up with Alexandra Owens, executive director of ASJA, to get the inside scoop on the conference and what’s going on at ASJA. [Full disclosure: ProfNet is a sponsor of this year’s conference. We hope to see you there!]"

Diller: Death Will Come for 'Irrelevant Media' (via NetNewsCheck by Michael Depp)

"Barry Diller has good news and bad news for newspapers, and local TV should listen, too."

Next FCC chairman will impact journalism (via Columbia Journalism Review by Tracie Powell)

"Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced last month that he was stepping down, and journalism advocates have since been lining up to voice opinions on what Genachowski’s successor should do differently in dealing with media."

Family of Missing GlobalPost Journalist James Foley to Hold Event on World Press Freedom Day (via press release by Northwestern University)

"The family of missing GlobalPost journalist and Northwestern University graduate James Foley is holding an event to raise awareness on World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd in Boston."

Tumblr's David Karp on The Closing of Storyboard: It 'Didn't Work' (via Capital New York by Joe Pompeo)

"'We gave it a year, and after evaluating it, we decided it wasn't really the right tool in our tool box,' said Karp, speaking at a conference hosted by the website paidContent. 'It was working in some regards. It wasn't working in the ways we intended.'"

Breaking News and Social Media: Stop Fighting It (via 10,000 Words/mediabistro by Karen Fratti)

"Social media and journalism are back in the ring this week. They’re both pretty strong contenders, but not without their weaknesses. In the immortal words of Paulie Pennino, let’s blow these punch-outs."

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‘Illegal immigrant’ no more (via the AP by Paul Colford)
"The AP Stylebook today is making some changes in how we describe people living in a country illegally."

5 Must-Have Chrome Extensions for Journalists (via 10,000 WORDS/mediabistro by Lauren Hockenson)
"It’s no secret that one of the keys to being a successful journalist these days is mastering the art of combing the Internet. And, a large portion of finding great stuff on the Internet relies on properly and efficiently utilizing clever tools that elevates your online skills from 'great' to 'practically superhuman.'"

MEDIAware: April Media Moves (via ProfNet Connect by Kevin Frey)
"MEDIAware, PR Newswire's Audience Research Department newsletter, features recent media news and job changes in the industry. Here is a sampling of this month's edition."

How text-to-speech technology can help journalists avoid copy errors (via Poynter by Chip Scanlan)
"You’ve run spell-check and closely studied your story. Your editors have done the same and the copy desk — the last line of defense against mistakes — has scrutinized every word and line to ensure error-free copy."

Instagram and Vine Shake Up News Industry (via Mashable by Leslie Meredith)
"News as we know it is poised to change, and it's in the hands of smartphone users. On March 31, the New York Times ran a photo of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez taken by sports photographer Nick Laham — on his iPhone and edited in Instagram. That was not the first time an Instagram-edited photo has been printed by a news outlet, but it was one of the most visible to date."

36 stories that prove citizen journalism matters (via CNN by Katie Hawkins-Gaar)
"The Internet can get pretty overwhelming sometimes. If you're like me, there are days when it feels like you can't stay on top of the endless stream of media. It seems impossible to discover the best content in all that noise."

The Koch brothers’ media investment (via Columbia Journalism Review by Sasha Chavkin)
"Tribune Company’s moves to sell its newspapers—a string that includes the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune—has reportedly sparked the interest of a number of heavyweight financiers. These include familiar media moguls like Warren Buffett and Rupert Murdoch. But heads turned when another pair of possible bidders emerged early in March: the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch."

America is watching more TV than ever before—just not on TV (via QUARTZ by Leo Mirani)
"It seems like only December 2010 that Americans admitted to spending as much time on the internet as they did in front of their televisions. Less than three years later, one-third of America’s internet users—and more than 80% of the population is an internet user—say they would consider ditching TVs altogether, according to a new report by market research firm eMarketer."

AP's North Korea Bureau Offers Glimpse Inside Country Amid Restrictions (via The Huffington Post by Michael Calderone)
"On Saturday morning, The New York Times ran a front-page photo of a mass rally in Pyongyang, one of few recent images to originate from the North Korean capital as leader Kim Jong Un once again beats the drums of war."

Call for journalist protection amid legal threats (via Yahoo by Alison Caldwell)
"There are fresh calls for a national legislative approach to protect journalists and their sources. One of the basic tenets of journalism - always protect your sources - is being challenged with five Australian journalists facing legal action for refusing to disclose information given in confidence."

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How newsrooms can create a breaking news plan & why it matters (via Poynter by R.B. Brenner)

"Jessica Parks sounded the alarm, rattling my smartphone as I drove to Stanford University. Before dawn that morning, she said, a worker at a nearby cement plant shot 10 people with a semiautomatic rifle and a handgun. Police were searching for him block by block."

72nd Annual Peabody Awards winners announced (via PR Newswire)

"Thirty-nine recipients of the 72nd Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for the year 2012, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the UGA Campus."

Hashtags considered #harmful (via Nieman Journalism Lab by Daniel Victor)

"The noble hashtag is cursed by a problem Yogi Berra could appreciate: Too many people use it, so no one goes there. Presumably, most Twitter users use hashtags intending to add their tweet to a river of similar information and to expose their own thoughts to a wider, interested audience."

How ProPublica Is Redefining The Journalism Industry (via Business Insider by William Wei)

"With newspapers laying off journalists en masse, and with traditional publications switching entirely to digital and depending on pageviews, many fear that good, public service journalism, which takes months to investigate and produce a news report, may become extinct.

Media Start-up Hatched at Columbia, 'The Big Roundtable,' Looks for a New Long-form Business Model  (via Capital New York by Joe Pompeo)

"Anyone who has experience writing for magazines can tell you that pitches tend to be approved or rejected based on the whim of any number of editors on the masthead."

Two-Step Verification: Why It’s Necessary for Journalists (via 10,000 WORDS/mediabistro by Lauren Hockenson)

"This week, Apple finally announced support for two-step verification for both the iCloud and AppleID. Now, users must use a second device to input a special code in order to access account specifics and iTunes purchases. It may seem like a small, or even unnecessary step, but type as fast as you can to implement it now."

The Q&A Team: Creating a Great Journalism Portfolio (via ProfNet Connect by Polina Opelbaum)

"I am a student journalist graduating from college in a couple of months, and I am stressing out because I have not put together my journalism portfolio. Typically, when do student journalists or working journalists put together a portfolio? Also, can you please provide some tips/advice on how to set up a portfolio?"

Nearly 1 in 100 Americans is incarcerated. But how well can journalists cover prisons if they can’t get past the gates? (via Columbia Journalism Review by Beth Schwartzapfel)

"When Rob Wildeboer, a criminal-and-legal-affairs reporter for public radio WBEZ in Chicago, read a report from a local watchdog group about conditions in Illinois state prisons, he was taken aback: 'The stuff that they were saying—if true—was just horrendous.'"

USA Today announces 'two big changes' (via POLITICO by Mackenzie Weinger)

"USA Today is making "big changes" by putting the cover story in the newspaper "on hiatus" and keeping story jumps to a "bare minimum, if at all," editor in chief Dave Callaway announced to staffers in a memo on Tuesday."

Why Publishers Would Miss Cookies (via Digiday by Stephan Noller)

"Mozilla’s announcement that third-party cookies will be blocked in the future is not going to lead to positive effects for publishers or even improve advertising."

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Free ProfNet Webinar: A Day in the Life of an AP Reporter (via ProfNet by Evelyn Tipacti)

"Whether you're a journalist or a public relations professional, you've almost certainly heard of the Associated Press, one of the largest newsgathering services in the world. I will be hosting a free webinar, "A Day in the Life of an AP Reporter," featuring Joyce Rosenberg, small-business reporter at the AP."

Pay Gap Narrows for Female Editors (via Media Jobs Daily by Vicki Salemi)

"This just in…every year Folio releases an annual report on magazine salaries and although there’s certainly a gap between female and male editors, there is a bright side."

How reporters can become better self editors (via Poynter by Meena Thiruvengadam)

"The accelerated pace of journalism means many reporters have to write, edit and quickly publish their work online, sometimes without the benefit of an extra set of eyes."

The newsonomics of selling Main Street (via Nieman Journalism Lab by Ken Doctor)

"Main Street is finally going digital. With the digitization of smaller business, newspaper companies believe they’ve found that elusive third leg of a business model — a model that could keep them standing, maybe even taller, into the second half of this decade.

News Nets Punked By Fake Video (via Broadcasting & Cable by Andrea Morabito)

"Is a pig rescuing a goat news? It turns out in this case, it wasn’t even real.

A video of a pig heroically rescuing a goat from a pond was featured on several TV news programs including ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams and Today and Fox News’ Fox & Friends after going viral on YouTube. The only problem? The video was a fake, staged for the new Comedy Central show Nathan for You, which premieres Feb. 28."

A BusinessWeek cover crosses a line (via CJR by Ryan Chittum)

"Bloomberg BusinessWeek is a lot edgier than its predecessor, at least where design is concerned. Sometimes it’s too edgy, like when it takes two minutes to read some headline intentionally designed to be barely legible."

Best of the Web Today: Journalism That Dare Not Speak Its Name (via WSJ by James Taranto)

If you're a reporter at the Washington Post and you aspire to write unsigned editorials, just send an email to the ombudsman.

Spain's economic crisis has an unexpected victim: journalism (The Christian Science Monitor by Andres Cala)

"In Spain’s transformational economic crisis, no industry has escaped unscathed. But one of the biggest casualties is an unusual one: journalism."

Who Will Buy the Los Angeles Times? (via LA Weekly by Hillel Aron)

"It was late 2006, and Los Angeles Times managing editor Leo Wolinsky had been summoned to the home of entertainment mogul David Geffen. A billionaire five times over, Geffen was interested in buying the newspaper Wolinsky edited. Very interested. His opening bid, as the Times itself would later report: $2 billion. Cash."

Social Media Week: Recapping the Recaps (via ProfNet Connect by Maria Perez)

"Last week, companies, bloggers and journalists around the world attended Social Media Week events held in various cities.

We were fortunate enough to attend some of the events, and we shared the highlights of what we learned in a series of recaps. In case you missed any of them, here’s a recap of the recaps."

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Will Lawsuits Prompt Media Companies to Pay Student Interns? (via PBS Media Shift by Rachele Kanigel)

"When hiring editors call Joe Grimm, a visiting editor in residence at the Michigan State University School of Journalism, in search of interns, they better be ready for a grilling.

Meredith in talks to buy Time Inc. magazines (via New York Poat by Keith J. Kelly)

"In one of the largest landscape-changing magazine deals in recent years, Meredith is negotiating to buy People, InStyle and most of the other Time Warner-owned titles for about $3 billion, people familiar with the deal said."

News app lets readers subscribe to specific journalists (via journalism.co.uk by Rachel McAthy)

"A news app which offers readers subscriptions to specific journalists has been launched following the closure of a free Dutch newspaper."

UN celebrates World Radio Day (via Columbia Journalism Review by Peter Sterne)

"Wednesday, World Radio Day, marked the 67th anniversary of the United Nations’s first broadcast—“This is the United Nations calling the peoples of the world”—with two panels of UN officials and journalists on radio’s continuing relevance in Conference Room 6 of the United Nations building."

5 reasons mobile will disrupt journalism like the Internet did a decade ago (via Poynter by Cory Bergman)

"Imagine being able to rewind to the 1990s and help your news organization make key decisions — and create new habits — to help prevent a landslide of layoffs and enable the business to thrive on the Internet. That’s the opportunity we have today with mobile, the second tidal wave of change about to collide with the news industry."

Pope Benedict XVI Attracts Significant Media Coverage  (via ProfNet Connect by Evelyn Tipacti)

"The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI has  been one of the biggest news stories to break this week and it has me thinking about how much coverage the pope actually receives in mainstream media. It seems there's always a report about his latest travels or his opinion regarding a controversial topic."

Stop the Courts From Weakening Student Journalism (via The Chronicle of Higher Education by Frank D. LoMonte)

"A consensus is growing that to adequately train young journalists and meet communities' needs for news and information, college journalism programs must transform themselves into "teaching hospitals" that produce a steady output of news distributed to a broad public audience. At the same time, federal courts are increasingly inclined to diminish First Amendment freedoms for college students at public institutions."

Deseret News Ranked as Second Fastest Growing Newspaper in the U.S. (via PRWeb)

"The Deseret News, Utah’s longest continually published daily newspaper, today announced that it is the second fastest growing news publication in the nation, according to a recent report from the Alliance for Audited Media."

The Problem With the Old Media and New Media Debate (via 10,000 WORDS, Mediabistro by Karen Fratti)

"I am intrigued by the meta story surrounding the University of Toledo sexual harassment and resignation scandal. It’s not the story of leaked text messages that gets me, as gross and tiring as it is. Instead, it’s the old media versus new media argument that has resurfaced because of it. Which is just as tiring."

It Sure Doesn't Sound Like Jonah Lehrer Is Donating That $20K Speaking Fee To Charity (via Forbes by Jeff Bercovici)

"Jonah Lehrer’s appearance at a Knight Foundation event Tuesday was supposed to be the first step in a rehabilitation culminating in his return to the welcoming arms of the journalism profession. It didn’t quite work out that way."

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