Polis: The continuing digital transformation of the New York Times
Monday, 7 November 2011, 10:50
Arthur Sulzberger talk at LSE Polis, with some interesting points about innovations in how New York Times journalists use social media.
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."
My heart’s in Accra » Understanding #amina
Tuesday, 14 June 2011, 15:36
Ethan Zuckerman: "As I observed in analyzing media coverage of the 2009 Iran green movement protests, when countries close themselves to international media, there’s a tendency to report stories relying heavily on social media. Syria was the rig…
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…
Reuters: Osama Bin Laden is dead – prove it
Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 00:12
"[The] editors on the Global Picture Desk found inconsistencies that immediately made us suspicious. There was odd pixilation and blurring and his face was darker in some areas than others. The biggest problem was that the picture looked familiar …
PhotoBlog: We think that bin Laden ‘death photo’ is a fake
Monday, 2 May 2011, 10:02
"An image circulating on the Internet and displayed on some television news programs abroad purports to show Osama bin Laden’s bloody corpse. No U.S. or Pakistani officials have confirmed its authenticity, and two U.S. officials have warned NBC …
Publish2 Blog: Nine Steps to Verified Link Journalism
Wednesday, 6 January 2010, 09:15
"If you see a blog post titled '10 Iconic Journalists Every J-Student Should Study' and want to share it with your Twitter followers, Facebook friends, or old-fashioned e-mail contacts, please consider what you’re endorsing when you link to it. … I’ve wondered since last night, when I first saw the link, if people realized what it was: linkbaiting as SEO, with the hopes of increasing traffic to an irrelevant site, boosting its rank in search results for the keywords in its URL."
