Posts from ‘April, 2007’

If The SF Chronicle reports on a Santa Barbara News-Press story Sunday that reeks of journalistic malpractice. A data-recovery company found child-porn images on a computer once used by the former managing editor, Jerry Roberts — as well as all kinds of other people, including whoever previously owned the computer and sold it, used, to […]

At left is Joe Trippi, a political consultant who has joined the presidential campaign of Democrat John Edwards. This is big news in the political world, for several reasons. First, Trippi managed the campaign of Howard Dean in 2004, helping to bring a little-known Vermont governor much, much further than anyone had expected. Dean self-destructed […]

A couple of days ago, a reporter for a major newspaper asked the following by email: My editor has asked me for a story, pegged to the Virginia shootings, that looks at the decline of the traditional journalistic “gatekeeper” role in an age when anyone with a cellphone camera can instantly be called a reporter. […]

At Real Time Investigations, a Sunlight Foundation project, you can follow what Bill Allison calls sort of a diary of investigations, where you can follow, day by day, what my colleague, Investigative Writer Anupama Narayanswamy, and I are up to as we go about our business trying to make Congress more transparent. Today’s posting exposes […]

Alan Mutter calls legendary Chicago columnist Mike Royko “The first citizen journalist.”

NBC wasn’t wrong to put some of the grotesque Cho pictures and videos on the air and the Net. But it made a catastrophic marketing blunder in the process. The New York Times reports today, “One aspect that clearly irritated many of NBC’s competitors was the impression of the logo ‘NBC News,’ which the network […]

It’s called Triblocal, and it’s like several other project already under way or in planning stages at major American media companies. The more experiments in this arena, the better.

UPDATED SF Chronicle: Tough decisions on how much to show. Grim video sent by the Virginia Tech killer to NBC News led editors, producers and media ethics experts to resume an uncomfortably familiar debate. “You have to find that line between serving the public’s right to know and the obvious public interest in knowing and […]

At the NMK Forum 07 I’ll do one of the keynote speeches. We should probably do a blogger dinner somewhere that week.

Over at Just Another Pretty Farce, Nashville blogger Katherine Coble reports settlement of what was shaping up to be a nasty legal disupte. You can find more about the situation in earlier postings on her blog, but the main point is that the threatening party agreed — after the intervention of a lawyer for the […]