Posts tagged journalism
As parks and public places decrease, giving way to malls, coffee houses and parking lots, the places where we can protest, soap box and gather are shrinking too.
Five Ways Free Speech Isn’t Free
The battle over free speech — hatched in the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights more than 200 years ago — continues to play out around the world in political conventions, courtrooms and the streets of the Middle East, where Libyan demonstrators protesting a U.S.-made anti-Muslim video killed the U.S. ambassador in Beghazi yesterday.
The incident puts into focus the ways different people view speech that can range from merely annoying to blasphemous.
In fact, the meaning of free speech has been evolving over time…
why can’t i dress like this without getting looks?
he looks so great!
CBS wartime correspondent Edward R. Murrow, Oxford Circus, London, c 1940
(via collectivehistory)
Fantastic piece of journalism alert!
A great profile of a person, a place and a tradition. Newspaper feature stories this great and spine-tingling are rare.
New Orleans Celebrates the Life of a Bandleader
“In the daytime,” said Benny Jones Sr., who is Mr. Batiste’s nephew by marriage and who founded the band with him nearly 20 years ago, “he liked to wake up and dress up and walk.”
Did he ever dress up: high-shined shoes, on the soles of which he would record the date of purchase; necktie and pocket square, the square at times made of fabric snipped off the back of the necktie to ensure a perfect match; wristwatch worn across his knuckles, so, he said, he would always have time on his hands; brown derby on his head; and then the walking cane, sunglasses and an ever-shifting constellation of jewelry.
And he walked, sauntering along Frenchmen Street in the afternoon, or embarking on a leisurely bar crawl up St. Bernard Avenue, beginning with Sidney’s and on and on to the Autocrat Club or Seal’s Class Act. He would sit at the bar with a Miller High Life, preferably next to a woman, and discuss the proper way to iron the crease into trousers, how to say “pregnant” in Creole or how to cook a pot roast.
Image: Lionel Batiste of the Treme Brass Band, known as Uncle Lionel, was honored in kind. Credit: William Widmer for The New York Times
Liz Smith on Nora Ephron
Is this really the buried lead it looks like?
is this real?
Nora Ephron news anyone?
Liz Smith on Nora Ephron:
I won’t say, “Rest in peace, Nora” – I will just ask “What the hell will we do without you?”
Maybe. I hope. Nora will answer. Nora, we ARE all basket cases. There was no one like you.
Reporting From New York: A Devil in a White City
We want more Julie Masons in journalism if for no other reason than for this candor:
“It’s a very male centric White House, this administration, I think a lot of his female supporters aren’t aware of that,” said Mason on Friday during an on-air interview with Sky News reporter, John Christopher Bua, disputing Bua’s characterization of former White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs. “He wasn’t great with the ladies,” said Mason of Gibbs, elaborating, “it’s a bit of a guy’s club over there, and so, Gibbs liked to hang out with the guys, and talk with the guys, and call on the guys, and it got to be a bit of a problem.”
Witty, cheery, sometimes biting in her commentary, Julie Mason is often a burning bright spot in an otherwise drab, male-worn, landscape of mirthless political punditry.
Host of the POTUS channel’s, “The Press Pool,” on Sirius/XM’s satellite radio, Mason helms a three hour long wonk fest…
How the News Covered the Sinking of the Titanic At the Time
Some got it right, some got it very wrong.
As if print journalism’s death knell wasn’t already loud enough, here’s a downright deafening new note that’s sure to make both print and online journalists reach for a pair of industrial earmuffs.
But before we have a listen, read this first:
Newt Gingrich received the largest increase in Tweets about him today. Twitter activity associated with the candidate has shot up since yesterday, with most users tweeting about taxes and character issues. Newt Gingrich has been consistently popular on Twitter, as he has been the top riser on the site for the last four days. Conversely, the number of tweets about Ron Paul has dropped in the past 24 hours. Another traffic loser was Rick Santorum, who has also seen tweets about him fall off a bit.
Sounds a little stodgy, wooden and robotic for my liking. Well, that’s not surprising, considering it was written by a robot.
Love what Reuters has been up to lately. And this new feature is fantastic
Today we launched Social Pulse, our new social media hub on Reuters.com designed to show you the most talked-about news, companies and influencers across the Web.
We also launched a journalist Twitter directory so you can follow all our people by location and topic!
“ Ms. Bennett, when asked what statement Tumblr was making by bringing her and Mr. Mohney on board, said, “Tumblr is basically hiring a staff to celebrate creativity and innovation. How many companies can say that?”
Tumblr Hires Writers to Cover Itself - NYTimes.com (via apsies)
Yay! This is an exciting new development.
“Basically, if Tumblr were a city of 42 million,” Ms. Bennett said, referring to the number of Tumblr blogs that exist, “I’m trying to figure out how we cover the ideas, themes and people who live in it.”
congrats to Ms. Bennett and Mr. Mohney
(via apsies)
MacGyver-Style Reporting in Libya
Sky News reporter Alex Crawford reported live from Libya using a basic laptop and a cigarette lighter-powered satellite uplink.
News Cycle Time-Lapse: BBC.com vs. NYTimes.com
Phillip Mendonça-Vieira set up a program to take regular screengrabs of the homepages of BBC.com and NYTimes.com from September 2010 to July 2011, and created a time-lapse video to compare the two. This excerpt from the full video shows the two pages simultaneously as they covered the events of the Egyptian revolution from January 27th to February 11th, 2011.
This is riveting.
(via theatlantic)
