Mediagazer: WikiLeaks As Journalism (Charlie Beckett)

12:40 PM ET, June 26, 2011

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From @-reply triage to journalistic meme-tracking: How NPR may scale Andy Carvin's Twitter curation — On a busy day, Andy Carvin gets 2,000 Twitter @-replies. Which, wow. We all experience, in some way or another, information overload; Carvin experiences it on a whole different level.

Discussion: ...My heart's in Accra, Soup and Knight Foundation

Charlie Beckett:

WikiLeaks As Journalism — Journalist? — This is another small clip from an early draft of a book I am writing about the significance of WikiLeaks. To be published by Polity in the autumn: — In this early phase we see how WikiLeaks is constantly evolving away from its pure ‘Wiki’ format …

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Pcrossfield / Civil Eats:

Why Laying Off Ag Reporter Philip Brasher is Bad for Food — Well-known DC-based agriculture reporter Philip Brasher was just let go by the Des Moines Register. His reporting also often appeared in USA Today; both papers are owned by the parent company Gannett.

Discussion: Gannett Blog and The Rural Blog

Adam Hochberg / Poynter:

How misinformation spread about Delta, Jews and flights to Saudi Arabia — An incendiary news story about Delta Air Lines flew quickly around the Internet this week. It left a vapor trail of misinformation and confusion as websites eagerly posted it without thoroughly checking the facts, while Delta was slow to adequately respond.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Hot Air and Gothamist

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Front pages in NY feature historic passage of same-sex marriage law — Late Friday night, the New York State Senate passed by 33 to 29 a law that gives same-sex partners the right to marry. Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the law almost 90 minutes later, at 11:55 p.m. Thirty days from its passage …

Discussion: New York Times, FiveThirtyEight, Gothamist, Soup and The New Yorker Blog

Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

On NYTimes.com, Now You See It, Now You Don't — WHEN Jill Abramson takes over as the new executive editor at the end of the summer, The New York Times that she oversees will be a very different organization than it was when she joined it 14 years ago. — The Times's transition …

Discussion: Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard

Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:

How The Food Network Suddenly Spiked In Popularity & Why comScore Isn't Buying It — In May 2011, the mantle of the most-trafficked food site according to comScore passed to Food Network from AllRecipes, who had held the position for over two years. What was its secret recipe?

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

“Adding context to content”: Swift River gets Knight funding to tackle the problem of real-time verification — One of the biggest challenges news organizations face is the real-time aspect of newsgathering: the massive problem that is making sense of the torrent of information that floods in when breaking-news events take place.

Discussion: Future of Journalism and Editors Weblog

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Bonnier Revs Up Magazine Licensing Efforts — Bonnier Corp., publisher of Popular Science and Parenting, has been buying up print in recent years, absorbing Time Inc.'s enthusiast magazines and smaller acquisitions like Working Mother Media and then-Hachette Filipacchi Media's hobby titles.

Discussion: Future of Journalism

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Brian Kennedy Returns to ABC as Executive Director of Newsgathering Operations — CBS News executive Brian Kennedy is returning to ABC News as executive director of newsgathering operations. Kennedy had been executive director of digital newsgathering for CBS News.

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, TVSpy and MediaPost

Patrick B. Pexton / Washington Post:

Why did The Post deport Jose Antonio Vargas's story? — Journalists are not public officeholders, nor do they manage public funds. But they do hold, precariously, a public trust. And at the foundation of that trust is the pledge to tell the truth, or at least to get as close to it as they can.

Discussion: Poynter, Media Myth Alert, NPR, On Media's Blog and NPR's On the Media

Joe Flint / Company Town:

Comcast has to sit on its hands while Hulu drama plays out — Imagine owning a big chunk of a company and having no say in its operations or future. — That's the position Comcast Corp. finds itself in with regard to Hulu, the online video site that consists primarily of content from its owners who …

Discussion: MediaPost