NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard has, apparently, spent the last couple of days trying to figure out how NPR allowed a false report onto the air that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had died.
Even to this day, the thought that a president could put the FBI on the trail of a journalist because he didn’t like the reporting sends shivers up the spines of rational people.
MJ Bear was one of the first people to recognize that journalism and the Web were made for each other, and that public media was uniquely qualified to prove it.
This video, released by Columbia Journalism Review earlier month, is a perfect example of how the political news you hear on your radio this afternoon gets made.
Officials at Benilde-St. Margaret, a Catholic school in St. Louis Park, have removed two articles from the school newspaper’s Web site critical of the Archdiocese’s DVD mailing against same-sex marriage.
Marc Ambinder, of The Atlantic, has decided to give up the world of blogging and head back to print journalism, but not before unleashing a scorched-earth treatise on his soon-to-be-former medium.