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Why Do NPR Reporters Have Such Great Names?
— What makes NPR reporters' names so particularly mellifluous? There's that pleasing alliteration — Allison Aubrey, Louisa Lim, Carl Kassell, Susan Stamberg. And it's hard to match those mouth-filling double-barrelled names.
May 7, 2013, 3:05 AM - In context
Retwact: A Tool for Fixing Twitter's Misinformation Problem
— Can an enterprising developer striking out on his own solve one of the social network's biggest flaws? — Even worse than the pornbots and trolls, one of Twitter's enduring drawbacks is that there's no reliable way to issue corrections with the service.
May 1, 2013, 3:15 AM - In context
The Company That's Buying Up All the Key Pieces of the Online News Ecosystem
— Betaworks has its tentacles in nearly every part of how stories are made, read, and measured. — In the past couple years, an ecology of sorts has come into being among online news sites.
May 1, 2013, 1:55 AM - In context
Why Big Cities Make Media Liberal—and Why the Koch Brothers Can't Do Anything About It
— On Sunday, the New York Times reported that the Koch brothers — yes, those Koch brothers, of dumping mad cash into elections fame — are considering buying the Tribune network of newspapers in a bid …
Apr 25, 2013, 10:55 PM - In context
It Wasn't Sunil Tripathi: The Anatomy of a Misinformation Disaster
— How a terrible misidentification of two people with no connection to the Boston bombing spread so far, so fast — In the middle of the last night's nearly unbelievable turn of events, for a few hours …
Apr 19, 2013, 4:10 PM - In context
Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Trial Should Be a Front-Page Story
— The dead babies. The exploited women. The racism. The numerous governmental failures. It just is insanely newsworthy. — A procedure room at the Women's Medical Society. / Philadelphia District Attorney's Office
Apr 12, 2013, 4:40 PM - In context
Running Out of TIME: The Slow, Sad Demise of a Great American Magazine
— The weekly was among the first to invest heavily in the Internet. So how come Time.com never figured it out? — I can still remember how jealous I felt. It was the mid-1990s, and I was a reporter at Inc. magazine in Boston.
Apr 7, 2013, 12:25 PM - In context
American News Consumers Have Gained the World but Lost Their Backyards
— The Internet affords cheap, easy access to priceless information. But local news coverage is a casualty of its rise. — Is the American news media in better shape than ever before?
Mar 22, 2013, 1:05 AM - In context
This Is the Scariest Statistic About the Newspaper Business Today
— Here it is: In 2012, newspapers lost $16 in print ads for every $1 earned in digital ads. And it's getting worse, according to a new report by Pew. In 2011, the ratio was just 10-to-1.
Mar 19, 2013, 3:35 AM - In context
The Copyright Rule We Need to Repeal If We Want to Preserve Our Cultural Heritage
— The anti-circumvention section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act threatens to make archivists criminals if they try to preserve our society's artifacts for future generations.
Mar 18, 2013, 3:20 AM - In context
