Tag: reporting
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New Orleans hospital drama at Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There’s a huge 22-episode package running in print and online down at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution right now, and it takes the reader inside New Orleans hospitals during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. From the introduction to the piece: To report this story, staff writer Jane O. Hansen interviewed more than 50 people over six months,…
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apophenia: On Being a Press Expert
“MySpace Expert” danah boyd lets us know what it feels like for the source at the other end of the call. apophenia: On Being a Press Expert
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Advice for paranoid reporters. By Jack Shafer
“The modalities of language are such that your source can tell you valuable things without actually saying them, which means he’ll be able to defeat the polygraph at Langley (if it comes to that)…” Advice for paranoid reporters. By Jack Shafer
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A quick riff on objectivity
I’m not going to go at length about the End of Objectivity, or even the perils of objectivity, although I should get around to posting a little literature review and presentation I wrote on the topic awhile back. But here’s a good concrete example of how awkward it can be sometimes to include “both” sides…
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Albert Merriman Smith
Wild Merriman Smith stories about breaking the JFK assassination story over a 1960s car phone to the UPI wire while the AP reporter in the back seat was freaking out. Albert Merriman Smith
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Travel the world, meet interesting people, blog for the New York Times
Win a trip to the developing world with Nick Kristof. What? And you won’t just be watching. I want you to report as well – probably in a Web log or video blog on the New York Times Web site, maybe in some other way. I’m open to other ideas as well, but I want…
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More staged media with the Governor Schwarzenegger
I know I’m late, but the long weekend swallowed up most of my political anger/impatience/responsiblity. So, last Friday’s San Francisco Chronicle has this story of a completely, 100% staged media event featuring the Governor of California, who happens to be Arnold Schwarzenegger. A work crew dug a pothole out of a San Jose street, and…