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The New York Times had a big scoop within a story on drone strikes: The CIA was operating a drone base in Saudi Arabia. However, as NYT public editor Margaret Sullivan notes, the paper had the information more than a year before they published it. They withheld publication at the request of the CIA, which [...]
Sat, February 9 2013 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Craig Kanalley of the Huffington Post thinks the news media should reconsider its current obsession with social media.
Mon, October 8 2012 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Arthur Brisbane Jr., outgoing public editor of the New York Times, had a few things to say in his final column about groupthink in the newsroom.
Sun, August 26 2012 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
Getting more personal and focusing the content to the platform are some principles guiding advances in social media use at the New York Times.
Tue, August 7 2012 » Main Page, Media » 1 Comment
The NYT pulled together a photo gallery from staff photographer Damon Winter that he shot in Afghanistan with an iPhone and the Hipstamatic photography app. It’s pretty awesome. (Seen via Twitter)
Mon, November 22 2010 » Main Page, Media, photos » Comments Off
Blog habitué Dio Clese, who blogs himself at News Gadgets, passed along this treat! (thanks!) He also passed on this Wired article on the Taiwan-based company that creates these newsimations — Next Media Animations (NWA): Taiwan Tabloid Sensation Next Media Recreates the News. Some earlier, related posts: Dec. 10, 2009 – About that Tiger Woods animation Dec. [...]
Sun, September 12 2010 » Main Page, Media, multimedia » Comments Off
NYT public editor Clark Hoyt has defended the paper’s decision to go hard after the role current Pope Benedict XVI may have played in going soft on a priest accused of sexual abuse back when he was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
Sun, April 25 2010 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page, Media » Comments Off
BusinessInsider.com had the following headline: How the Huffington Post’s traffic is killing rival news sites It’s a quick-and-dirty post based on an analysis by Ken Doctor, who headlined his post Happy Birthday HuffPo (Hint: Give money) The Huffington Post ‘s birthday isn’t until May 9. Doctor salutes the tabloid for its explosive growth, but notes [...]
Fri, April 23 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
NYT public editor Clark Hoyt yips at the paper for a number of instances in recent weeks where anonymous sources were improperly used.
Sun, April 18 2010 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off
NYT public editor Clark Hoyt frets about some slipups by the paper’s staff as it strives to deal with a real-time news world.