Those who teach editing or care about the future of editing are invited to gather over breakfast at this year's AEJMC convention in Chicago. Our session will be joined by two multimedia journalists from the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel. It's free, thanks to support from the Hearst Journalism Fellowship, but reservations are required. Details are inside.
Comparing front pages is a good way to teach students that page design reflects a publication's personality. And when the No. 1 college football team loses the big game, personality takes on fresh energy. Take a look at how a few newspapers handled Florida's drubbing of Ohio State in this year's national championship game.
Former President Gerald Ford, who died Dec. 26, inspired that headline back in 1975 when he refused to use federal aid to bail out New York City from its fiscal crisis. Read the story behind the headline and the man who wrote it.
Regret the Error has dubbed 2006 the Year of the Belated Apology in its annual roundup of the year's best corrections. And the Correction of the Year goes to ....
If you ask online journalists what skills are more important in an online newsroom, what you'll hear are the attributes that largely define a copy editor. C. Max Magee, a graduate student at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, asked exactly that question, and his results have been released by the Online News Association. Top skills: attention to detail, news judgment, grammar, multitasking, dealing with deadlines. As Medill professor Rich Gordon says, "the traditional journalism job that most resembles online newsroom roles is that of copy editor."
The Poynter Career Center features job listings, a resume bank and advice for both employers and job-seekers. In addition to career columns by Poynter regulars, the Career Center features Joe Grimm's "Ask the Recruiter" column from the Detroit Free Press' excellent JobsPage. The Career Center was conceived as a help-wanted section to generate revenue for Poynter projects, but Poynter President Karen Brown Dunlap said the center also meets several other needs.
Katie Couric, who makes her CBS debut Sept. 5, lost several dress sizes when staffers at the network's promotional magazine airbrushed her photo for the September edition. According to the New York Daily News, CBS blamed the retouching on staffers at Watch, which is distributed at CBS stations and on American Airline flights. Watch editor Jeremy Murphy declined to comment - but Couric had something to say.
Beloit College has released its annual list of what entering college freshman have always been with or without. The College Mindset List attempts to help professors understand the new crop of students and figure out where they're coming from - a phrase freshmen probably have heard only their parents say.
Of the top 100 U.S. papers, 76 offer RSS feeds; all were partial feeds and none included advertising. Only 31 of the papers offer podcasts, and 80 papers put at least one reporter blog on their Web sites. But only 19 papers allowed readers to comment on the articles. Those are a few of the highlights from a study released by a Washington, D.C., PR firm.
Charlotte Observer fires Patrick Schneider for lightening a photo's background. He was suspended three years ago for excessively darkening the background of photos.
Miami New Times cried foul when El Nuevo ran a photo purportedly showing Cuban police ignoring prostitutes soliciting a passing tourist. El Nuevo responded by saying it was a case of insufficient identification.
Mideast violence is again spurring calls of media bias, often from both pro-Israeli and pro-Arab camps. Washington Post science writer Shankar Vedantam explores partisan reaction to news coverage by examining research on media reports of the 1982 war in Lebanon.
Anonymous post on the publicly edited encylopedia calls education at Skutt Catholic High School 'awful' and its students 'complete idiots.'
Stony Brook University to open the first undergraduate school of journalism in the 64-campus State University of New York System | Newsday, July 18, 2006