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Vanity Fair: Rupert Murdoch interviewed by Michael Wolff
An extract from Michael Wolff’s forthcoming book, The Man Who Owns the News, in October’s Vanity Fair, which, among other revelations, details how he acted as a peace broker between Barack Obama and his Fox News Network.
Washingtonpost.com: Bloggers break news of Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter
Reports on the Daily Kos that John McCain’s deputy Sarah Palin was actually the grandmother and not the mother of her young son eventually exposed the fact that Palin’s daughter was pregnant.
But should such news be made public in this way? And are political parties having to react to too many ‘reports’ from the blogs?
After the blogging storm
The winds have slowed down to a tropical storm, but the Gustav blogging continues.
The mainstream media is reporting on the blogging phenomenon as well as the actual hurricane: the Chicago Tribune looks at the decision-making power of blogs and FollowTheMedia comments that the hurricane may stop print, but not the web.
Meanwhile, over at Poynter, NPR’s Andy Carvin examines the role of social media in Gustav coverage.
As we posted yesterday, this was one for the Twitterers and they tweet on as people assess the damage. A quick twitter local search shows how the twitterers regard the media professionals… The complete mobile version, on the other hand, gives you a full package of the Nairabet desktop site on your mobile phone, including online casino games
Pictures can be found easily on this Flickr search and over at gustavbloggers.com they reflect that it wasn’t as bad as they feared. Meanwhile, to prepare for reportage of the next natural disaster, the Blog Herald offers its disaster blogging tips.
Hurricane Gustav hits online media
Hurricane Gustav, which according to Breaking News Twitter reached the coast of Louisiana at 11.19am (BST) today, is being avidly blogged, twittered and mapped by US news organisations online.
The Houston Chronicle has set up a special section of its site – Hurricane Central – to cover the storm, featuring live radar maps of its progress, forecasts of the storm’s path and related news stories.
The Chronicle has also created a guide for readers on how to prepare for the hurricane when it hits.
Kansas City’s KCTV5.com is mapping Gustav with its interactive Hurricane Tracker, which allows users to compare and contrast past storms in the US.
KCTV5 is also streaming live footage from cameras located on the US coast.
Elsewhere intern with the Knox News Sentinel, Willow Nero, is blogging from New Orleans’ airport as she tries to catch a flight to Paris (thanks to Jack Lail for the tip);
A quick search for New Orleans on Twitter Local shows a wealth of residents using the microblogging service to update on their evacuation or as they sit out the storm. Play a great choice of slots, video poker, and casino games at the well-established FavBet Casino. https://favbet-casino.in/app/ Claim regular bonuses and a variety of loyalty rewards.
Mark Mayhew, twittering from 932 Bourbon St, New Orleans, is using the service to update followers from the ground:
Weberence has created a round-up of twitterers affected by the hurricane giving a highly personalised account of the storm; while a Twitter account set up as the American Red Cross is giving followers up-to-the-minute details of evacuation procedures and safety information.
Media Guardian: Pew survey shows growing podcast popularity
Online users are spending more and more time downloading podcasts to watch or listen to later, a new US study has shown.
Short-skirted woman sues newspaper commenter
A woman, who was forced to leave a local shopping mall for wearing a short dress, is suing an anonymous online user for a post to a Kentucky newspaper’s forum.
The Associated Press (via Editor&Publisher) reports that 20 year old student Kymberly Clem says she was escorted by security from the Richmond Mall on August 9 after a row erupted over the length of her skirt.
Clem’s attorney says an anonymous posting on The Richmond Register claimed Clem had exposed herself to a woman and two children. Clem is suing the anonymous user for unspecified charges.
According to the AP, the newspaper has erased the comment and banned the user, known as ’12bme’, for violating the website’s terms of service.
The Register’s assistant editor Lorie Love, who is reponsible for posting comments made by users on the site, has been subpoenaed to give a deposition in connection with the suit.
Richard Koci Hernandez named multimedia fellow at Berkeley, resurrects Multimediashooter
The University of California at Berkeley has given a Ford Foundation multimedia fellowship to Richard Koci Hernandez, current deputy director of multimedia at the San Jose Mercury News.
His aim is to develop digital news sites for under-served communities, according to the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), where Hernandez has led a series of multimedia workshops.
Hernandez is also reviving his website, www.multimediashooter.com, which was shut down earlier this year after being repeatedly hacked.
Washington Post uses mobile phone video for live stream
Over on Lost Remote, the Washington Post is claiming that its live stream of Hillary Clinton at yesterday’s Democrat convention in the US was one of the first times a newspaper has carried out this type of live video coverage using a mobile.
Reporter Ed O’Keefe used a mobile phone and software by Comet Technologies to produce the clip, which can be viewed here.
For more info on the paper’s digital strategies, read this online Q&A with the Washington Post from Poynter.
Bloomberg runs false obituary for Apple’s Steve Jobs
The death of Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs was prematurely announced yesterday afternoon by Bloomberg.
A pre-prepared stock obituary was accidentally posted to Bloomberg’s corporate client wire service, even through the story was marked ‘Hold for release – Do not use’.
It was quickly spotted by a user, and sent to Gawker.com, where the obituary can still be read in full.
Bloomberg was quick to retract the story, and yesterday published a message on its wire saying: “An incomplete story referencing Apple Inc. was inadvertently published by Bloomberg News at 4:27 p.m.New York time today.”
At Telegraph.co.uk Matthew Moore reports: “The stock obituary was published ‘momentarily’ after a routine update by a reporter, and was ‘immediately deleted’, Bloomberg said.”
According to Moore, ‘Jobs has been reluctant to publicly discuss his health, but recently denied claims that his cancer [from which he has previously suffered] had returned’.