Play Misty for Me: The Media on The MomentBy Megan Garber, Columbia Journalism Review
In less than twenty-four hours, it got so much attention that it ceased to need an explanation. ABC News is now calling it, simply, 'The Moment.' In caps. Yep - that (slightly) choked-up voice, those (slightly) misty eyes: Hillary Clinton's Shocking Display of Emotion.
The Portrait from Iraq - How the Press Has Covered Events on the Ground
Project for Excellence in Journalism
What image of war did journalists - challenged with reporting events from Iraq - portray to the American public in the first 10 months of 2007? What role did violence play in the coverage? Who did reporters rely on for information? A new study of Iraq war coverage addresses these questions.
Checkbook Journalism Revisited: Sometimes We Owe Our Sources Everything
By Robert Boynton, Columbia Journalism Review
In November 1970, Esquire published one of the most memorable covers in its history. Illustrating "The Confessions of Lt. Calley," the first of three articles about the man who, with his platoon, murdered hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai, it consisted of a photograph of Calley, in uniform and grinning broadly, surrounded by four adorable Asian children.
So You Want to Be a Columnist?
By Alex Beam, Boston Globe
A few weeks ago I met Suzette Standring, a syndicated columnist whose work appears in The Patriot Ledger and elsewhere. Standring is one of those people who lists her accomplishments at the bottom of her e-mails: "Humorist, Writer, Speaker; Immediate Past President, National Society of Newspaper Columnists." It is not by accident that my e-mails trail off into blank space.
Cisco to Bring Social Networking to Big Media
By Marguerite Reardon, CNET News
Cisco Systems has software in the works that will help large media companies build interactive and social networking into their properties, The Wall Street Journal said Tuesday.
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