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September 2007 - Posts

Wednesday, September 26, 2007 1:51 AM

Telemundo Reassigns L.A. Mayor's Girlfriend

Reporters Duke Helfand and Meg James called the move "a notable fall for a one-time rising star":On Monday, Telemundo spokesman Alfredo Richard said that the network and KVEA, one of its top stations, had learned a valuable lesson. Reassigning Salinas
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Saturday, September 22, 2007 3:25 PM

Muhammud vs. Jesus on the editorial page

Tuesday’s edition of PressNotes reports that al Qaida in Iraq put a hit on a Swedish cartoonist and Swedish editor for a cartoon portraying the Prophet Muhammud as a dog. The story in Editor & Publisher indicates the cartoon ran to flex muscles of free
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Friday, September 21, 2007 1:39 AM

More on Targeted Ads

Amy Gahran renews her plea to news organizations:"My local supermarket does a far better job of delivering relevant ads to me on the back of every grocery receipt than any news site I visited today. The technology exists! So what are the real barriers
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Friday, September 21, 2007 1:30 AM

Bridge Breached, Not Credibility

WCCO Radio Managing Editor Steve Murphy says one of the things journalists can learn from the bridge collapse in Minneapolis is to "think ethics." Jill Geisler summarizes the point from an interview:Murphy cautions about the "experts" stations may put
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:44 AM

Conn. Newspaper Defends Naming Jurors

On Sept. 9, the front page of The Connecticut Post, a daily paper based in Bridgeport, was dominated by a story about the jury selection process in a court case that involved the death penalty. Accompanying the story was an illustration of 18 empty
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Saturday, September 15, 2007 12:57 AM

Casey Bukro, "Father of the SPJ Code of Ethics"

Michael Miner gives our very own committee member a heckuva mention in the Chicago Reader:"Casey Bukro’s pronouncements on ethics have an air of ingenuous conviction to them. ... 'At a time when revenue, circulation and advertising decline throughout
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Saturday, September 15, 2007 12:55 AM

Tradition Defied: Connecticut Newspaper Names Jurors

In their two and a half decades working as jury consultants in such high-profile cases as the OJ Simpson trial, the Scott Peterson trail and the Enron trial, Dave Zagorski and Jo-Ellan Dimitrius said they have never seen journalists do what the Connecticut
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Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:48 PM

Consultant Probed in Bogus Interview

A former consultant to ABC's investigative unit admitted yesterday that he put his name on a purported interview with Barack Obama that he never conducted.More from The Washington Post ...
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Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:41 AM

Could Targeted Ads Save Journalists' Jobs?

Content strategist and self-described "info-provocateur" Amy Gahran:"Whenever you mention that ads should be delivered with relevant editorial content, journalists' hackles go up. They fear losing the editorial/advertising firewall, and thus their independence
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:06 AM

Novak: Plame Affair Will Stay with Me

From former CNN commentator Robert Novak's new memoir, "The Prince of Darkness":"I came under constant abuse from journalistic ethics critics, from some colleagues, and especially from bloggers," Novak writes. "I have written many, many more important
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:10 PM

On Warming Weather, Columnist Is Cold for Objectivity

From Steve Outing's "Stop the Presses":Climate Change: Get Over Objectivity, Newspapers The industry still has a lot of power to influence people. How about if newspapers abandon their old way of doing things when it comes to the issue of global
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:10 AM

Member of Independent Dow Jones Panel Has Ties to News Corp.

A foundation run by one of the members of News Corp.'s proposed committee to protect Dow Jones & Co.'s editorial integrity has financial ties to News Corp., despite the agreement of both companies that committee members should be independent of
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 8:33 PM

Who's on First? Online/Print Publishing Dilemma

A story that recently made the rounds of Jewish (and non-Jewish) media on the Internet and in print illustrates the complex issues of deadlines, exclusivity, paying and non-paying clients, and whether newspapers and Web sites are separate entities.More from
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