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When Reported.ly’s European team learned of the attack, our reporting operation was less than 48 hours old. Here’s how w… Baptism By Fire: What We Learned Covering #CharlieHebdo On Our 3rd Day — the reported.ly team — Medium.
Murder is wrong, and the murder of journalists cuts especially close to the bone for anyone in the industry. So I certainly sympathize with Jonathan Chait’s impulse to offer a full-throated defense of publishing blasphemous anti-Muslim cartoons as a positive good. “The right to blaspheme religion is one of the most elemental exercises of political…
On Wednesday morning, the French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo was attacked by three masked gunmen, armed with kalashnikovs, who stormed the building and killed ten of its staff and two police officers. The gunmen are currently understood to be Muslim extremists. This attack came minutes after the paper tweeted this drawing of ISIS leader Abu…
There has been a sudden spike recently in expressions of racism in French public life—one that has provoked a national debate and may lead to legal action this week. It began last month, when a candidate for the right-wing National Front likened Christiane Taubira, the Justice Minister, who is black, to a monkey, pairing…
The recent attack on Charlie Hebdo, a weekly satirical French newspaper featuring acerbic cartoons and comics, is shocking. Twelve people are dead, 11 injured. These attacks threaten the freedom of the press. But the media’s response has been troubling. Coverage lionizes Charlie Hebdo as an institution, while also taking advantage of the cartooning community. Charlie…
Dean Baquet calls Marc Cooper an ‘asshole’ for posting a ‘thoughtless and arrogant’ note Posted on Facebook In another comment on his Facebook wall, USC Annenberg journalism professor Marc Cooper writes: “You just happen to be wrong. man. I call you that instead of your word ‘asshole’ as I try to meet long standing standards…
Defending free speech and free press rights, which typically means defending the right to disseminate the very ideas society finds most repellent, has been one of my principal passions for the last 20 years: previously as a lawyer and now as a journalist. So I consider it positive when large numbers of people loudly invoke this principle, as has been…
Commander Shepard, the player-created hero of BioWare’s Mass Effect trilogy, began life as a woman, developer Jonathan Cooper revealed on Twitter today. Cooper is currently an animator on Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End at Naughty Dog, but he previously worked at Ubisoft Montreal as the animation director for Assassin’s Creed 3, and prior to that,…
There is little empathy at the top. Most of America’s richest think poor people have it easy in this country, according to a new report released by the Pew Research Center. The center surveyed a nationally representative group of people this past fall, and found that the majority of the country’s most financially secure citizens…