Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Newspaper reporter is ‘the worst job of 2015′ Newspaper reporter lands on the bottom of CareerCast’s Jobs Rated list for 2015. Last year, it was #199 out of 200 occupations. Today’s press release says: Newspaper reporter, which displaced lumberjack as the worst job of 2015, has a negative growth outlook of -13.33% and an average…
Arabelle Sicardi, who wrote a BuzzFeed post criticizing Dove that was later deleted (and eventually restored) at the request of editor-in-chief Ben Smith, is resigning from the site, according to an internal memo distributed by BuzzFeed Style editor Julie Gerstein. From: Julie Gerstein Date: Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 5:25 PM Subject: News about Arabelle…
If you’ve never heard of Nilay Patel then here’s what you need to know: He runs The Verge, a large, successful tech website where he last week posted a nearly 7,000-word review of the Apple Watch (for which he also shaved his forearm, for the video portion). You’d think he’d be a pretty secure man….
Atlantic Puffins. Photo: Stephan Rech/Westend61/GmbH/AlamyHere are a couple of warnings I offer, free of charge, to savvy consumers of glossy-magazine think pieces: 1) Beware rhetorical questions in headlines or subheads (e.g., “Has climate change made it harder for environmentalists to care about conservation?”) [1]; and 2) Beware paraphrased quotes in which the writer doing the paraphrasing…
Eric Gaillard/Reuters Garry Trudeau, the Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical cartoonist behind Doonesbury, says his fellow satirists at Charlie Hebdo “wandered into the realm of hate speech.” Trudeau made the remark during his acceptance speech of the George Polk Awards in Journalism, according to Peter Bale, the head of the Center for Public Integrity. “Free speech… becomes its…
The Bold Italic, a local San Francisco site, surprised its audience yesterday by announcing that it was shutting down. “Together we have built a strong community of followers, contributors, and partners. However, we have made the difficult decision to cease operations,” the site said in a post announcing its closure. “It’s been a great run…
The Columbia Journalism School has published their report on what went wrong in Rolling Stone‘s article on rape at UVA last year. The long and damning investigation concludes: Rolling Stone‘s repudiation of the main narrative in “A Rape on Campus” is a story of journalistic failure that was avoidable. The failure encompassed reporting, editing, editorial supervision…
There are very few government checks on what America’s sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy and security, and dick-pics. Connect with Last Week Tonight online… Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it…
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Last November, we published a story, ‘A Rape on Campus’ [RS 1223], that centered around a University of Virginia student’s horrifying account of her alleged gang rape at a campus fraternity house. Within days, commentators started to question the veracity of our narrative. Then, when The Washington Post uncovered details suggesting that the assault could…
Our frontline journalism could use a lot of help. Oh see, you f*cked it, you f*cked it all up, for about five minutes of history we were on course to courageously advance the world of journalism and then you slid your stupid face in front of the moment and just ruined everything. […] Our brave…