Media News, Feb. 23, 2010
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Amid More Layoffs, D Magazine Reconsiders Circulation Operation (Folio Mag)
Layoffs again have hit the company that publishes Dallas, Texas-based D magazine. The regional this week laid off seven staffers, or about 6 percent of its overall workforce. Among the eliminated positions were its custom marketing director, style director and senior multi-media producer.
Six months in to AP’s nonprofit distribution project, not a lot of picked-up stories to show for it
In conversations with some of the nonprofit participants and the AP, it appears that AP members have used little if any nonprofit content.
NYT Co. Executives Shed More Light on Meter Model (E&P)
Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman of the Times Co. and publisher of the New York Times, as well CEO Janet Robinson and Martin Nisenholtz, senior vice president of digital operations, fielded questions about their meter model system during packed luncheon at paidContent’s 2010 conference at the Times Center in Manhattan last week.
The Story the New York Times Won’t Touch (The Big Money)
James Ledbetter talks about journalistic compromise.
Frauds: An ugly, old journalism tradition (CNet news)
It’s handwringing time in the journalism world again. Over the weekend, IDG, publisher of InfoWorld, acknowledged that Randall Kennedy, one of InfoWorld’s contributing writers, had misled some at the company about his involvement with Devil Mountain Software, a firm he wrote about and just happens to own.
College journalism matters (Huffington Post)
Leah Finnegan on college newspapers.
Point of View: Speed has trumped accuracy in journalism realm (The Lariat Online)
Liz Foreman says she recently discovered the harsh reality: The journalism she is learning and practicing at Baylor is becoming obsolete.
Journalistic malpractice on global warming (Economist)
What’s truly infuriating about this episode of journalistic malpractice is that, once again, it illustrates the reasons why the East Anglia scientists adopted an adversarial attitude towards information management with regard to outsiders and the media. They were afraid that any data they allowed to be characterised by non-climate scientists would be vulnerable to propagandistic distortion. And they were right.
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The Quest for Innocence and the Loss of Reality in Political Journalism (PressThink – Jay Rosen)
Jay Rosen discusses the New York Times story, Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right.
