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The Acorn Sting Revisited

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Clark Hoyt - Mar. 21 (News Analysis) - Acorn supporters say The Times got a story about a sting wrong. Did it?

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Jon Stewart-Glenn Beck Parody: Daily Show Host Goes After Fox News Host (VIDEO)

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Mar. 19 (Comedy News) - Jon Stewart gets a lot of material from Glenn Beck, but the Daily Show host went all-in on Thursday night with a whopping 15-minute parody of the Fox News host. Words don't really do it justice, unless they're on a chalkboard, so just enjoy the video ...

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Compare Health Care Bills Side-by-side

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - Mar. 19 (News Analysis) - Yesterday the House released its "fixes" to the Senate's health care bill. We've done the heavy lifting and tracked all changes for easy viewing. Get to know your bill before the pundits tell you what to think about it.

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More News about Omidyar’s Peer News

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

TechCrunch - By Sarah Lacy - Mar. 18 (News) - I’m at the NewsMorphosis Conference in Hawaii today locked in a day of debates about the state of news quality and how the hell we find a business model to keep paying for it. It’s a big issue locally– earlier this year three of Hawaii’s five largest TV news stations merged operations and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin is merging with the other daily paper the Honolulu Advertiser, resulting in plenty of layoffs and general civic concern.

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Steal This Idea! Hot New Revenue for News

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reynolds Journalism Institute - By Michael Skoler - Mar. 18 (Opinion) - How does this sound? A million dollar revenue stream that requires only a salesperson or two, some web support and off-the-shelf e-commerce and newsletter tools? It caught my eye. And I’m suggesting you steal the idea for your local news operation fast before national competitors own the market. The idea is Deal Brokering. You use your knowledge of the local scene, your brand and your contacts to negotiate group deals with local businesses from bars to restaurants to dry cleaners. The businesses offer big one-time discounts to attract new customers, your audience gets access to great deals, and you broker the deal on your site and get a substantial cut of the money. It’s already happening around the country. Online startups like Groupon and Living Social offer one local deal a day, which is conveniently pushed to you through e-mail or cell phone. Each deal is usually 50% off or more, good for just one day, and specific to your city. I’ve seen deals on organic food, massages, hair styling, dry cleaning, acupuncture, dental checkups, online book printing, gym memberships, belly dancing classes, and much more. Yet the most common deals, and probably the best sellers, are restaurant, bar and entertainment gift certificates. I have yet to see a deal repeated. The beauty of the model is its simplicity. It is easy and fun to see one deal a day, presented with humor or sparkle. I dislike lists of deals provided by groups like Travelzoo.com or Restaurant.com that require combing through offers to see if any are relevant. And the new deal services make it easy to buy the day’s deal and share it with friends. They also provide incentives to get people to share the deals through their social networks.

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Want to Read Good Journalism? Try NewsTrust's New Personalized Filtering Tool

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Read/WriteWeb - Mar. 17 (News Report) - Fair, thorough, enterprising and in context - that's what we're looking for in the journalism we read, isn't it? At a time when shallow ranting takes up so much space in public discourse, a new media evaluation technology offers hope, inspiration and is a lot of fun to use.

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Future of news lies in the grassroots

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Dan Kennedy - Mar. 17 (Opinion) - One way to think about the new media environment is that the handful of news sites singled out by the Project for Excellence in Journalism include the few with the resources to cover the truly big stories, from the battle over healthcare reform to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It makes sense that most people are going to read those sites.

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Pentagon Sees a Threat From Online Muckrakers

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Stephanie Strom - Mar. 17 (News Report) - WikiLeaks.org, a tiny online source of information that governments and corporations would prefer to keep secret, published an Army report about itself.

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"Dotcom" Turns 25: My Predictions for What Comes Next

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Arianna Huffington - Mar. 16 (Opinion) - I predict that someone is going to create an online tool that makes it possible to instantly fact-check a story as you are reading it -- or watching it on video. Picture this: It's last summer and you are reading or watching a story about health care, and Sarah Palin or Betsy McCaughey is prattling on about death panels. Instantly, a box pops up with the actual language from the bill or a tape rolls with a factual explanation of what the provision in question really does. And this is a non-partisan tool. So when, in the midst of the legislative debate, President Obama says "I didn't campaign on the public option," the software will fire up and instantly show you where support for the public option appeared in his campaign plan, and clips of all the times he mentioned it in public after he got elected. A companion tool in service of the truth would instantly provide historical context to a story you are reading or watching, as well as a narrative that helps put the facts we are getting into a larger framework.

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Times' National Desk in 'Head-Snapping' Revamp | The New York Observer

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Observer - By John Koblin - Mar. 16 (News) - In recent weeks, The New York Times’ national desk has undergone quite a face-lift. There’s a new editor, Rick Berke. There is a new deputy editor in Adam Bryant. And there will be a new Los Angeles bureau chief in Adam Nagourney.

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Stanford Study Confirms That “Balanced” Media Stories Quoting Skeptics Mislead The Public

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

desmogblog.com - By Jim Hoggan - Mar. 16 (Special Report) - Providing climate skeptics a voice in “balanced” mainstream media coverage skews public perception of the scientific consensus regarding climate change, leaving viewers less likely to understand the threat of climate disruption and less likely to support government actions to address global warming, according to the results of a Stanford University research effort.

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The State of the News Media 2010

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Journalism.org - By Tom Rosenstiel - Mar. 15 (Special Report) - Inside news companies, the most immediate concern is how much revenue lost in recession the industry will regain as the economy improves. Whatever the answers, the future of news ultimately rests on more long-term concerns: What are the prospects for alternative journalism organizations that are forming around the country? Will traditional media adapt and innovate amid continuing pressures to thin their ranks? And with growing evidence that conventional advertising online will never sustain the industry, what progress is being made to find new revenue for financing the gathering and reporting of news? The numbers for 2009 reveal just how urgent these questions are becoming. Newspapers, including online, saw ad revenue fall 26% during the year, which brings the total loss over the last three years to 43%. Local television ad revenue fell 22% in 2009, triple the decline the year before. Radio also was off 22%. Magazine ad revenue dropped 17%, network TV 8% (and news alone probably more). Online ad revenue over all fell about 5%, and revenue to news sites most likely also fared much worse. Only cable news among the commercial news sectors did not suffer declining revenue last year. The estimates for what happens after the economy rebounds vary and even then are only guesses. The market research and investment banking firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson projects that by 2013, after the economic recovery, three elements of old media — newspapers, radio and magazines — will take in 41% less in ad revenues than they did in 2006.

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Bad News

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Columbia Journalism Review - Mar. 15 (Other) - They went looking for crap, and by golly they found plenty of it. Students in Howard Rheingold’s journalism class at Stanford recently teamed up with NewsTrust, a nonprofit Web site that enables people to review and rate news articles for their level of quality, in a search for lousy journalism. The students, along with other NewsTrust users, spent...

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The Beck Factor at Fox: Staffers say comments taint their work

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Howard Kurtz - Mar. 15 (News Analysis) - In just over a year, Glenn Beck's blinding burst of stardom has often seemed to overshadow the rest of Fox News.

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There Is Literally No Way to Make Money Selling News

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Gawker - By Adrian Chen - Mar. 15 (News Analysis) - There Is Literally No Way to Make Money Selling News. That is the only conclusion a reasonable person can reach reading this new Pew Foundation report. Paywalls are anathema. Nobody clicks on ads. The value of news is zero dollars and zero cents. The future of news is awesome.

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Why don't honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News?

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Howell Raines - Mar. 12 (Opinion) - One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why haven't America's old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration -- a campaign without precedent in our modern political history?

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Glenn Beck Attacks

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

beck.cnnbcvideo.com - Mar. 11 (Comedy News) - Fox host Glenn Beck spent much of the last week claiming that a normal, everyday progressive, Janet Barnes, along with her pinky, commie, leftycrat Facebook friends were all linked to Stalin, Elvis, Joe Biden's cousin, and the guy who came up with the idea of taxes.

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Higher Corporate Spending on Election Ads Could Be All but Invisible

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

ProPublica - By Chisun Lee - Mar. 10 (News Report) - The Supreme Court recently freed [1] corporations to spend more money on aggressive election ads. But if businesses take advantage of this new freedom, the public probably won't know it, because it's easy for them to legally hide their political spending.

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What Was Sebelius Saying?

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Columbia Journalism Review - By Trudy Lieberman - Mar. 10 (Opinion) - The president and his staff have brought us to the stump-speech stage of health reform: the familiar talking points, the oratory, the exaltations, the fuzzy language, the misstatements, the “yes, buts.”

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The New Media Watchdogs

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Kimberly Butler - Mar. 08 (Interview) - In 1964, media analyst Marshall McLuhan suggested that a given medium was more important than its message. In 2009, I sat down with Dan Rather, Geraldo Rivera, Tim Zagat, Amy Goodman, Rachel Sklar, Carol Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Bob Simon, John Ziegler, Juan Williams, Kevin Macdonald , Mary Alice Williams, and Stephen Cannell to see what they had...

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Trust Falls

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Columbia Journalism Review - By Justin Peters - Mar. 07 (News Analysis) - In November of 2009, an editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch decided to show his readers who was boss. After a commenter persisted in posting “a vulgar expression for a part of a woman’s anatomy” on a “Talk of the Day” feature asking readers to name “the craziest thing you’ve ever eaten,” the editor, Kurt Greenbaum, observed that the comment originated from a local school’s IP address. Greenbaum called the school to inform them that somebody had been posting obscene comments from one of their computers. Shortly thereafter, officials at the school deduced that the comments had been posted by an adult employee. After being confronted with the evidence, the employee resigned. Greenbaum told this story in a matter-of-fact Post-Dispatch blog post titled “Post a vulgar comment while you’re at work, lose your job.” The post, along with a follow-up, elicited over 600 responses from readers, overwhelmingly upset at the heavy-handed move and Greenbaum’s perceived smugness in defending it. (On his Twitter account, Greenbaum professed amazement “at the readers who comment in defense of a jackass who posted a vulgarity on our site — and lost his job.”) He may well have expected praise for his actions. A jackass had posted a stupid comment. In the interest of civility, Greenbaum removed both the comment and the jackass.

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Media conflict of interest debate

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Aljazeera - Mar. 07 (Opinion) - This week on The Listening Post, we put the spotlight on a debate concerning The New York Times and its apparent conflict of interest in Israel. Also, we report on the tug of war for control of Kenya's media.

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Who Says

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Columbia Journalism Review - By Megan Garber - Mar. 06 (News Analysis) - In its inaugural State of the News Media report in 2004, the Project for Excellence in Journalism put its finger on a core paradox in contemporary American journalism: “Journalists believe they are working in the public interest and are trying to be fair and independent in that cause,” the report went. “This is their sense of professionalism.” The next line? “The public thinks these journalists are either lying or deluding themselves.” It continued: “Americans think journalists are sloppier, less professional, less moral, less caring, more biased, less honest about their mistakes, and generally more harmful to democracy than they did in the 1980s.” It concluded: “After watching these numbers closely for years, we at the Project suggest that all of these matters—the questions about journalists’ morality, caring about people, professionalism, accuracy, honesty about errors—distill into something larger. The problem is a disconnection between the public and the news media over motive.” A disconnection between the public and the news media over motive. In other words, the profound mistrust Americans apparently feel toward their media isn’t rooted simply in the products of journalism—the news reports put out every day in text and image and sound—but rather in the producers themselves. Mistrust in our media is as much a matter of the who as the what.

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Afghanistan: Media ban on attack coverage is ‘to protect journalists’

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Raw Story - By Raw Story - Mar. 03 (News Report) - The government of Afghanistan sent out mixed messages on Tuesday about its plans to restrict media coverage of insurgent attacks, at once denying that it was banning live coverage of attacks while defending the plans as being "to protect journalists."

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Understanding the Participatory News Consumer

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Pew Research - By Kristen Purcell, Lee Rainie, Amy Mitchell, Tom Rosenstiel, Kenny Olmstead - Mar. 01 (Special Report) - The overwhelming majority of Americans (92%) use multiple platforms to get their daily news, according to a new survey conducted jointly by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Project for Excellence in Journalism.

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