Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Do you smell rice? It’s not like none of us in journalism has ever shit the bed on a story before; it’s rather a rite of passage. I once made a “dead gay son” joke without realizing Randall Terry’s gay son actually was dead. I remain, as I should be, horrified. Another time, I had…
“Seriously?” That’s all that CNN’s Jake Tapper could summon during an interview with a top aide for Donald Trump on Monday, where the topic predictably turned to the candidate’s widely debunked claims of having seen footage of Muslims in the U.S. celebrating on the day of the 9/11 attacks. In what has become an almost…
According to at least one online analytics provider—namely, comScore—the Washington Post surpassed the New York Times in web traffic in October, with roughly 67 million unique visitors compared to about 66 million for the Times. This is interesting in part because the Post has closed the readership gap with its New York-based competitor at a…
Stefano Schirato/REX Shutterstock Start Article Post Content CNN has suspended global affairs correspondent Elise Labott after she tweeted about Syrian refugees and a bill that would make it harder for them to enter the United States, according to multiple reports. Labott injected her own opinion about the bill in her tweet, along with the link…
A CNN article detailing the first day in the trial of one of six Baltimore police officers indicted in the death of Freddie Gray has sparked outrage online. Why? Because of the manner in which CNN journalists Ann O’Neill and Aaron Cooper referred to Gray’s mother. Following an otherwise straightforward lede, O’Neill and Cooper described the deceased…
Over the weekend, the New York Times published a story about Bluestockings, “a bookshop and activist center” in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The Times introduces staffer Senia Hardwick like this: Mx. Hardwick, 27, who prefers not to be assigned a gender — and also insists on the gender-neutral Mx. in place of Ms. or Mr….
Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea Clinton embrace as they attend the 2015 meeting of Clinton Global Initiative University in Coral Gables, Florida.Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Politico’s chief White House correspondent Mike Allen, one’s of the publication’s most prominent ambassadors, has been caught committing a serious journalistic faux-pas. On Tuesday, Gawker, which has…
After what was likely a heated debate around the editorial desk, The New York Times decided to rework a story that described Robert Lewis Dear, the man who killed three people and wounded nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic on Friday, as “gentle.” A story published on Saturday about Dear’s background used that adjective,…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Two Italian journalists who wrote books detailing Vatican mismanagement go on trial Tuesday in a Vatican courtroom along with three people accused of leaking them the information in a case that has drawn scorn from media watchdogs around the world. The Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders and the OSCE,…
You may have heard of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the woman who died in a raid carried about by French police in the days after the attacks in Paris. Or you might have seen her on the website of the Daily Mail, which said it obtained exclusive photos of her, or the New York Post, which…