[CW:MONTHLY] The Click List

Bloomberg Seems Poised to Do Something Big
Jon Friedman, MarketWatch
It was big news when Bloomberg announced Monday that Norman Pearlstine, a senior adviser at the Carlyle Group, had joined the company as chief content officer. After all, Pearlstine had been the top news executive at Time Inc. and The Wall Street Journal.

Telling Our Own Stories, Becoming Better Journalists
Mallary Jean Tenore, Poynter Institute
As reporters, we're trained to tell the stories of others, to gain an understanding of experiences we may know little about and to not get too emotionally attached to our sources. More often than not, our own stories are left for personal blogs, journal entries and the spoken word.

'Twitters' Beat Media in Reporting China Earthquake
Agence France Press
The world had real-time news about China's massive earthquake as victims dashed out "twitter" text messages while it took place, in what is being touted as micro-blogging outshining mainstream news.

Anti-Gay Assault More Frequent Than All Violent Crimes Combined
Gay men sustain physical assault due to sexual orientation at a frequency that is twice the population rate of all violent crimes combined, and youth and Native gay men are at highest risk, according to new research by a Canadian public health team. The team surveyed 521 gay male volunteers between 15 and 30 years of age from 1995 until 2004. At study enrollment, one-sixth of the men said they had been previously hit, punched, or beaten because of their sexual orientation. Gay men who revealed their sexual orientation before age 16 were 4 times more likely to report previous assault (36%), compared to gay men who “came out” in their twenties (10%). E-mail Dr. Thomas Lampinen for more information and results of the survey.