A #BreakingNews ticker for every TV channel
via breakingblog:
We’re all familiar with TV news tickers, scrolling along the bottom of news channels. But what if a ticker only appeared for a few moments when a story breaks? And what if it worked across all live TV channels? Here at BreakingNews, we’ve created a connected TV app that does just that.
Doonesbury continues exploring information silos with its “myFacts” series
And I want to be able to argue on my show that Obama’s stimulus created zero jobs.
Words Journalists Use That People Never Say
Among my favorite cliches that people never use in natural conversation:
Critics contend
Strib: “Critics contend that young, developing businesses and smaller websites could be saddled with expensive litigation costs.”Journo Dad: “Critics contend that you kids don’t hop into the tub when you’re supposed to.”
Muck Rack: Journalists owe it to their readers not to be phished
When journalists don’t demonstrate the same skepticism of phishing links on Twietter as they do for claims in press releases, they undermine their credibility by inviting spam on their followers. And if the idea is that journalists carry credibility from one medium to the next, they’re losing their reputation among readers when they don’t make informed social media usage…
via muckrack:
Over the past few weeks we’ve received direct messages from dozens of journalists’ compromised Twitter accounts perpetuating a phishing scam, which prompted us to make this tweet:
We’ve received over 10 DMs from journalists asking “You seen what this person is saying about you?” Our answer: No! (It’s a phishing scam.)
Visual guide to being a military embed
How headlines are created at different news sources. For example, headlines from Occupy Wall Street
The Onion: Decoy site created to lure away trolling internet commenters
The Onion nails another parody in the ongoing debate about online journalism and idiot commenters
Earlier this year NPR’s On the Media host Brook Gladstone released “The Influencing Machine”, a history of media and journalism illustrated by Josh Nuefeld.
Actually, “illustrated” leaves us descriptively short: it’s a comic book romp that traces modern journalism back some 2,000 years to the shysters of yesteryear.
Here, Gladstone tackles the idea that the media is manipulating us.
Not true, she says, instead, media culture is a hall of mirrors. One where we just don’t really like the reflection that is us.
Time-lapsing the New York Times Home Page
Phillip Mendonça-Vieira ran an errant cron job that ended up taking two screenshots of the New York Times home page every hour from September 2010 to July 2011. The fortunate result of the mistake: 12,000 screenshots of what the Times felt important for its home page.
Phillip writes that most publications don’t save their frontpage layout data and if the printed newspaper ceases to exist, society will lose key historical snapshots of the every day.
Via Phillip:
This, in my humble opinion, is a tragedy because in many ways our frontpages are summaries of our perspectives and our preconceptions. They store what we thought was important, in a way that is easy and quick to parse and extremely valuable for any future generations wishing to study our time period.
Notable moments: Chilean miners at 0:39, Arab Spring at 3:38 and Japanese Tsunami at 4:54
Tonight at 11pm: Dangerous Deserts - a Target 12 Investigation by Eyewitness news.
(Scare tactics, for shame)
Must be May sweeps.
