Interview with Help A Reporter Out’s Peter Shankman

more about “MUR Interview: HARO’s Peter Shankman“, posted with vodpod

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“There Was No Crime Scene Tape Involved.”

Ellen Crooke, news director of NBC affiliate WXIA, discusses local news coverage at an Atlanta Press Club event.

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Emory Student Gives Journalist Her Facebook Login Info

While it’s ugly and disgraceful that Atlanta’s Emory University has been the scene of on-campus incidents of obvious intolerance between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli students, what’s almost as distasteful is the thought of giving a journalist, of any stripe, one’s user ID and password info to one’s personal Facebook account -  just to prove a point.
But [...]

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KSU’s Center For Sustainable Journalism Hiring A Director

Hey Atlanta journos – especially recently laid-off ones: KSU’s Center For Sustainable Journalism, co-founded by SoCon co-founder, Leonard Witt, is hiring a director. This is an exciting opportunity for the right person. Details are here.

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Someone IS Trying To Break Our Hearts

These are the faces of the human beings who have been led by those who failed to see the vast chasm as they drove straight at it. WARNING: This slide show of the faces of the people of the newsroom of The Rocky Mountain News as they got word that they were being shut-down for [...]

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ANP – Building The New Journalism Army

This mercifully short video accomplishes so much: it is not only watchable, with compelling music to get us beyond simple talking heads, it wets the appetite for more.
It makes the viewer want to explore what James Risen, the National Security reporter for the NYT, knows. Risen obviously knows a lot. Much more than [...]

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This Ain’t No Mud Club. No CBGB. I Ain’t Got Time For That Now.

Lemme ask you Dear Reader… would you waste your precious time teaching social media apps and skills to a group of (laid off likely) professional… let me say that again… PROFESSIONAL journalists who had made such pitiful personal forays/investments into new media that they had no personal laptop to bring to the party/workshoppe? That, rather, [...]

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CBS Newsman Bob Schieffer At The Atlanta Press Club

Bob Schieffer was giddy as a school boy. His kind, interesting and weathered face lit up like a Christmas tree when he spoke at the September 29th Atlanta Press Club’s Newsmaker Luncheon.
In between hosting Face The Nation and moderating Presidential debates, Schieffer swung by the APC to promote his new book, Bob Schieffer’s America. If [...]

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The Smallest Detail Will Tell Your Story

After consuming ludicrously large, possibly unhealthy, amounts of post-Democratic National Convention-Obama-acceptance-speech spin, lipflap, analysis, blog posts, whipping posts, live streams, generic coverage, video, columns, old media, new media, medium media, HDTV, jerks and twitches, post-morts, Twits, Tweets, Monday morning quarterbacking, bickering and rapturizing from every possible media source on the planet except maybe Al Jazeera, [...]

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Georgia Media Unaware of… Georgia Media

I’m not going to get my feelings hurt that I didn’t win the Atlanta Press Club’s Journalist of the Year Award for Multimedia/Online Reporting. For, bless my own heart, I didn’t even realize there WAS such a catagory to compete in! Else I’d have submitted an entry. And bless my heart again, I’m even a [...]

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Should Journalists Be “Allowed” To Have Personal Blogs?

According to Bloggasm blogger, Simon, who conducted a comprehensive survey of 250 editors and publishers (not all of those bothered to respond to SImon’s survey though):
Approximately 44% of newspaper editors and publishers wouldn’t allow their staff writers to maintain personal blogs without prior approval.
Full story here. It’s that word “allow” that is so troubling, isn’t [...]

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Traditional Journalism Is Failing America

How can ”traditional” journalism fail us? Most simply, old numbers do lie. When a journalist who is schooled only in the ways and means of presenting information via “old” media consumption statistics fails to comprehend and apply how “new” media is used to consume ALL media nowadays, they thus present erroneous information to their audience… certainly by misleading them. 
Given the right set [...]

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It’s All Old School, Hon… Tip Line Brings Down Spitzer

From the New York Observer:

According to two people involved in the story, it started on Friday, March 7, when William Rashbaum, a (NYT) reporter of the old school whose outgoing message refers telephone callers to a pager number, got a tip. The nine-year veteran of the paper’s courts and investigations desks was holding a complaint [...]

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Advice For Indie Media Hunter-Gatherers

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Day 2: Computation & Journalism Symposium

Back at the Tech ranch for Day #2 of the Computation & Journalism symposium. Several Atlanta bloggers are Twittering it all. So head there if you’re interested. Also, there’s live web cam too, found here.

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Local Political Blogger Morphs

Jason Pye, a really good local Libertarian-ish blogger with a reputation as a straight shooter around the blogosphere and the Dome, is now cranking columns for The Covington News. Don’t tell Susanna Capelouto from Georgia Public Broadcasting though. She’ll demand to see Jason’s credentials!
Capelouto didn’t so much ask any questions during today’s Computation+Journalism Symposium at Tech as she opened her mouth and made [...]

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Live Blogging The Computation+Journalism Symposium

Off to a roaring start at the Tech conference. Not. I can’t get on the Tech wi-fi! Typical academics. Making easy stuff hard for little people.
Professor Aaron Bobick talking now about stories. Only thing is, he’s Chair of Interactive Computing College! Maybe he loves O’Connor too. BTF outta me.
Conference is being webcast live here though, so [...]

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