The Washington Post: Ask The Post – An ongoing conversation between Post readers and The Post newsroom
Friday, 30 September 2011, 10:18
“Engaging readers with our journalism”. Nice idea for a newsroom blog; also on Twitter at #askthepost
ReadWriteWeb: How Tumblr is Changing Journalism
Friday, 16 September 2011, 16:57
"ShortFormBlog uses a mix of Tumblr and Wordpress as its publishing platform. In particular, a plugin called Tumblrize. As Smith explained, Tumblrize "allowed me to take the WordPress backend (which I had invested a lot of work into customizi…
The Washington Post: A Gay Girl in Damascus and Lez Get Real: The lessons we learned
Friday, 24 June 2011, 11:53
"As journalists … We were taken in by both MacMaster and Graber, but we also tracked down the truth about both of their identities. What did we do wrong and what did we do right? Here are some of the lessons we learned."
The Electronic Intifada: New evidence about Amina, the "Gay Girl in Damascus" hoax
Monday, 13 June 2011, 12:24
"In a comment on that post, Paula Brooks, executive editor of LGR, gave two IP addresses which she said had been used by Amina to access LGR’s servers. The whois records for these IP addreses both have descriptions that indicate they are allocat…
The Washington Post: ‘A Gay Girl in Damascus’ comes clean
Monday, 13 June 2011, 12:19
"The Post on Thursday contacted Scott Palter, a board game creator from Minnesota who corresponded regularly with Amina on a Yahoo message group called “The Crescentland.’’ In a telephone interview, Palter said that he asked her several year…
NPR: The Two-Way: ‘Gay Girl In Damascus’ Turns Out To Be An American Man
Monday, 13 June 2011, 12:11
"The revelation came hours after NPR approached Britta Froelicher, his wife, with some evidence that connected her with Gay Girl In Damascus. Other news organizations appeared to be zeroing in on the couple, too. Over the past week, we've bee…
New York Times: ‘Gay Girl in Damascus’ Blogger Admits to Writing Fiction Disguised as Fact
Monday, 13 June 2011, 11:58
"Tom MacMaster, a 40-year-old graduate student … explained that he had initially created Amina, his Arab lesbian character, as “a handle” he would use when he wanted to contribute comments to online discussions. His aim, he said was to use t…
New York Times: Case of a Gay Girl in Damascus Blog and Sifting Syrian Fact From Fiction
Friday, 10 June 2011, 10:51
"[After] it was widely reported by news organizations that the blogger, who writes as Amina Abdallah Arraf, had been snatched off the street in Damascus on Monday, doubts were raised about whether the author of the blog had, in fact, been detained…
Guardian: A gay girl in Damascus – or a cynical hoax?
Friday, 10 June 2011, 10:10
"Despite the efforts of major news organisations, bloggers and enterprising individuals on the internet and Twitter, no one – journalist, activist, friend or Facebook contact – has been identified who has ever spoken to Araf face to face. Sand…
Bad Science: Why don’t journalists link to primary sources?
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 11:40
Ben Goldacre: "Why don’t journalists link to primary sources? Whether it’s a press release, an academic journal article, a formal report, or perhaps (if everyone’s feeling brave) the full transcript of an interview, the primary source contai…
Business Insider secrets revealed: An Inside Look At Our Readership And Financial Performance
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 15:15
"We only did only $5 million of revenue last year ($4.8 million, to be precise, of which most came from advertising). And, yes, $5 million of revenue is pretty puny in general. It's less than a single big network news anchor gets paid in a si…
New York Times: Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 11:20
"Lee Rainie, director of the Internet and American Life Project, says that blogging is not so much dying as shifting with the times. Entrepreneurs have taken some of the features popularized by blogging and weaved them into other kinds of services…
Talking Biz News: NYT expands Dealbook coverage
Monday, 8 November 2010, 11:25
"The New York Times is expanding its DealBook blog … DealBook, which remains anchored by [Andrew Ross Sorkin], Michael de la Merced and Jack Lynch, now has a news staff of 16. … In print, a DealBook page will now appear Tuesday through Friday in The Times, and the International Herald Tribune will also feature DealBook content on those days. … The DealBook site will be redesigned with a new look and feel and offer continuous news updates, detailed company data and multimedia offerings. … DealBook will introduce a redesigned e-mail newsletter on weekday mornings and will add a new edition delivered after each day’s market close."
Telegraph: Andrew Ross Sorkin: The man behind Dealbook
Monday, 8 November 2010, 11:17
"[Dealbook editor Andrew Ross Sorkin] is part of new breed of entrepreneurial journalists, blazing an unmatchable trail in their respective areas of expertise and using the power of technology to do so."
