Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photo by Flickr user Roger H. Goun The union that represents journalists at The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and Barron’s announced this week that Dow Jones, which owns the publications, pay men more than women in jobs of similar tenure. Male staffers with up to five years of experience, for example, earn an average of 13.5…
Regardless of the legality of what Gawker did when deciding to post a tape of Hulk Hogan sleeping with his former best friend’s then-wife, it’s really tough to stand up for the first amendment when the hill you’re going to die on is made of questionable newsworthiness and dick jokes. That’s what appears to be…
Former Gawker editor AJ Daulerio at the Hulk Hogan trial. In a mumbling video deposition, former Gawker editor AJ Daulerio was asked if there was any situation where he would deem a celebrity sex tape not newsworthy. “If they were a child,” Mr. Daulerio responded. “Under what age?” Mr. Daulerio was asked. “Four,” he said…
paging_filter Hulk Hogan knows a thing or two about calling in a ringer. Thirty years ago, at the very first WrestleMania in Madison Square Garden, Hogan called on his friend (and major TV star) Mr. T to help him defeat “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and Paul Orndorff in the main event. Now, he is calling on…
The most important news of the day in New York City, according to America’s oldest continuously published daily newspaper: A homeless woman with a lot of shopping carts who hangs out in Hell’s Kitchen. Good to know! http://tktk.gawker.com/the-new-york-p… This is not the first time the New York Post has mocked a person who sleeps outside…
Fifteen of the 16 negative stories on the Bernie Sanders campaign that the Washington Post ran over a 16-hour period. In what has to be some kind of record, the Washington Post ran 16 negative stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 hours, between roughly 10:20 PM EST Sunday, March 6, to 3:54 PM EST Monday,…
A Female Journalist Dared to Ask Peyton Manning a Serious Question and She Was Called a “Cunt” and “Bitch” For It On Monday, Super Bowl-winning quarterback Peyton Manning held a PRESS conference to tell everyone what everyone already knew – that he was retiring after 18 years in the NFL. At the PRESS event was…
Illustration: AP Something really dramatic is happening to our media landscape, the public sphere, and our journalism industry, almost without us noticing and certainly without the level of public examination and debate it deserves. Our news ecosystem has changed more dramatically in the past five years than perhaps at any time in the past five…
Questions surround USA Today columnist’s account of airplane “hacking” incident A technology journalist who recently published a column for USA Today claiming to be the victim of a computer intrusion during a recent American Airlines flight was likely not hacked because of a security flaw or lapse involving the plane’s on-board wireless Internet service, according…
Some articles should be short. Some articles should be long. No articles, as Vox and its SB Nation demonstrated, should be longform. Greg Howard’s postmortem of SB Nation’s “Who Is Daniel Holtzclaw?” debacle offers lots of insights into how a story can go wrong, but the most concise may be his reporting that a freelancer…