This has been doing the rounds a bit in the last couple of days and we certainly aren’t too grown up to join in. The headline speaks for itself, suffice to say the subs at Reuters had a good laugh. The original article about Walter Dix’s victory at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting on Saturday is at this link.
This isn’t the first time US athlete Gay has made it onto the Journalism.co.uk Editors Blog, his surname and a Christian news site stirred up a little humour in 2008…
Censorship concerns were raised in Pennsylvania recently by court orders issued to several newspapers instructing that archived stories and other information about certain defendants be deleted.
The expungement orders, issued to Centre Daily Times and the Daily Collegian student newspaper at Penn State, have now been rescinded by a second central Pennsylvania judge, Thomas King Kistler.
According to the Centre Daily Times: “It’s common for attorneys to draw up legal documents such as expungement orders for judges to consider. Centre County judges usually sign 30 to 50 such orders at a time once or twice a week.”
These kind of court order are, however, “typically demanded of public agencies” and were “an unusual provision in this case”.
The Times reports that judges are investigating a total of 41 cases in which newspapers were named in expungement orders.
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Who? Herman Manson
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The Twitter career graveyard has begun slowly filling up. News today that CNN’s senior editor for middle east affairs has been sacked after 20 years with the company for voicing what was deemed to be an inappropriate sentiment via Twitter. Octavia Nasr publicly mourned the death of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah.
Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.
Parisa Khosravi, CNN’s vice-president international newsgathering, said in a statement that Nasr’s credibility had been compromised.
Back in May, comedian and columnist for Australian newspaper the Age Catherine Deveny lost her slot on the paper following tweets she sent during the Logies awards ceremony.
Deveny defended herself, claiming that Twitter was like “passing notes in class, but suddenly these notes are being projected into the sky and taken out of context. Twitter is online graffiti, not a news source.”
“Wrong,” said the Age technology editor, “posts to Twitter are not private messages”.
Labour candidate Stuart MacLennan lost his job during this year’s general election campaign after what the Times called a “spectacular ‘Twitter suicide'”. MacLennan reportedly called the elderly “coffin dodgers,” before moving on to some more colourful language:
He had also labelled the Commons Speaker John Bercow a “t**”, David Cameron a “t***” and Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, “a b******”.
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Who? Alice Ross, freelance journalist
Where? Alice has previously been production editor for Digital Arts magazineand editor of Barcelona Metropolitan magazine. She is now working as a freelance writer and sub-editor, and blogs at Hopeless Idealism. She has a LinkedIn page here.
Contact? @almostidealist
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As reported by Nieman Journalism Lab, Reuters blogger Felix Salmon noticed late last month that a Time Magazine story he had followed a link to online wasn’t there, instead there was this message:
To read TIME Magazine in its entirety, subscribe or download the issue on the iPad.
The next morning the story reappeared in its entirety.
Yesterday reporters at Nieman noticed that “nearly every major article” on Time Magazine’s website was no longer available in full:
Check out the current issue of Time Magazine at Time.com. Click around. Notice anything? On almost every story that comes from the magazine, there’s this phrase: “The following is an abridged version of an article that appears in the July 12, 2010 print and iPad editions of TIME.”
This afternoon MediaMemo has confirmation from parent company Time Inc. that there are title-by-title paywall plans and content across its publications will increasingly be print and iPad only. Spokesman Dawn Bridges outlines the publisher’s policy:
We’ve said for awhile that increasingly we’ll move content from the print (and now iPad) versions of our titles off of the web. With People, we haven’t had hardly any content [SIC] from the magazine on the web for a long time. Our strategy is to use the web for breaking news and ‘commodity’ type of news; (news events of any type, stock prices, sports scores) and keep (most of) the features and longer analysis for the print publication and iPad versions.
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Who? Editor at TechRadar.com
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Police in England have come in for a fair amount of criticism recently for their treatment of photographers (see here and here), but their US counterparts have received some attention too after detaining freelance photographer Lance Rosenfield, who was working for ProPublica at the time.
Rosenfield was driving away after taking photos of a BP refinery in Texas City, Texas when he was followed by a BP employee, blocked off by two police cars and detained. Rosenfield had remained in a public space outside the refinery while working. The police reviewed his pictures and recorded his date of birth, Social Security number and other personal information. According to Rosenfield these details were then shared with BP.
Paul Steiger, editor-in-chief of ProPublica, said:
“We certainly appreciate the need to secure the nation’s refineries. But we’re deeply troubled by BP’s conduct here, especially when they knew we were working on deadline on critical stories about this very facility. And we see no reason why, if law enforcement needed to review the unpublished photographs, that should have included sharing them with a representative of a private company.”
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Who? Freelance journalist, writer and training consultant.
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The Times finally took the paywall plunge today, but US newspaper giant Gannett has stopped short at dipping its toes.
The publisher is conducting a “small-scale test” by putting subscription services around three of its local titles, reports Poynter Online. The Tallahassee Democrat, Greenville (S.C.) News and (St. George, Utah) Spectrum will charge $9.95 a month for online-only access, fees for web-and-print bundles will vary.
Gannett had “weighed a lot of factors” in selecting three of the publisher’s 81 titles, vice president for news Kate Marymont told Poynter’s Bob Mitchell. “We didn’t want to start at our very largest properties.”
“[W]e know this is not the model,” Marymont acknowledged.
She said the company want to explore the revenue potential of niche content and the effect of paywalls in smaller markets.
“We want to test the idea that our journalism is more of a service than a product, and that we should give readers a selection of delivery methods.”
According to vice-president of corporate communications Robin Pence, the tests will help the company “develop a long term strategy for paid content”.