Churnalism: discover when the “news” you’re reading is a press-release
from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow
Syrian Electronic Army takes credit for hacking AP Twitter account
from FP Passport
After the Associated Press tweeted, “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured,” it literally took only seconds for people to debunk the bomb scare.
Tsarnaev Brothers’ Impact on U.S.-Russian Counterterrorism Cooperation
from RAND: Commentary by RAND Staff
Unfortunately, since 9/11, the ups and downs in U.S.-Russian counterterrorism cooperation have mirrored the unsteady relationship between the two countries, writes Andrew S. Weiss.
Pathologizing Islam and Pax Americana
from tabsir.net by tabsir
by Timothy P. Daniels, The Islamic Monthly, April 22
Twitter is reportedly testing two-factor authentication following multiple hacks on user accounts
from The Next Web by Ken Yeung
Reddit Apologizes for Boston Marathon ‘Witch Hunt’
from Mashable! by Sam Laird
How the Media Failed in Its Coverage of the Boston Bombings
from Mashable! by Quartz
Boston Police Schooled Us All on Social Media
from Mashable! by Yael Bar-tur
Manhunt Turns Ustream Into a Crowdsourced CNN
from Wired Top Stories by Ryan Tate
The manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was one of only a handful of landmark moments in the history of six-year-old online video startup Ustream.
Web App Tracks Breaking News Using Wikipedia Edits
from iRevolution by Patrick Meier
A colleague of mine at Google recently shared a new and very interesting Web App that tracks breaking news events by monitoring Wikipedia edits in real-time. The App, Wikipedia Live Monitor, alerts users to breaking news based on the frequency of edits to certain articles. Almost every significant news event has a Wikipedia page that gets updated in near real-time and thus acts as a single, powerful cluster for tacking an evolving crisis.
The newsonomics of recycling journalism
from Nieman Journalism Lab by Ken Doctor
The newsonomics of Pulitzers, paywalls, and investing in the newsroom
from Nieman Journalism Lab by Ken Doctor
Bio-hackers, crime journalism, and socialstructing the future
from Boing Boing by Marina Gorbis
Heroes’ Creator Tim Kring on Redefining TV
from The Next Web by Paul Sawers
Is the press too big to fail? It’s dumb journalism, stupid
from open Democracy News Analysis – by Todd Gitlin
Todd Gitlin, whose latest book is Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street, offers a little survey of American print journalism on the way down, without a hint of romance in sight.
Everyone knows this story, though fewer and fewer read it on paper. There are barely enough pages left to wrap fish. The second paper in town has shut down. Sometimes the daily delivers only three days a week. Advertising long ago started fleeing to Craigslist and Internet points south. Subscriptions are dwindling. Online versions don?t bring in much ad revenue. Who can avoid the obvious, if little covered question: Is the press too big to fail? Or was it failing long before it began to falter financially?
#ISOJ 2013: How News Organizations Can Adapt to Digital Disruption
from MediaShift
Traditional news organizations need to embrace the disruption brought by digital culture — or they risk becoming obsolete.
Breaking news pragmatically: Some reflections on silence and timing in networked journalism
from Nieman Journalism Lab by Mike Ananny
The Great Potential (and Challenges) of Citizen Videos Uncovering News
from MediaShift
At the National Conference on Media Reform earlier this month, a topic I heard repeated in panel after panel was the diversity of voices. Media consolidation, industry cutbacks, and political repression are among the threats to reporting on and by independent and diverse perspectives around the world.
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