Tag Archives: The New York Times

The teller not the tale: link based journalism and rewrites

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McDonalds by DennisWhat value do news­pa­pers add to inform­a­tion? A couple of days ago, I book­marked this piece on product place­ment, from the New York Times. Basic­ally, it’s about cof­fee cups appear­ing on the desk dur­ing a local morn­ing news show in Las Vegas.

The Las Vegas Sun repor­ted it first on Monday:

Oooooooh, they’re call­ing out your name.

Two cups of McDonald’s iced cof­fee (BUY!) sit on the Fox 5 TV news desk, a punch-you-in-the-face product place­ment (BUY!) to chase down your morn­ing news.

Quoted? Fox 5 news dir­ector, Adam Brad­shaw, and Kelly McBride of the journ­al­ism eth­ics outi­fit, Poynter. The New York Times hat tips the Las Vegas Sun, ditches the breezy style — and the line that the cof­fee and ice cubes are fake — and clocks up eight quoted sources in under a thou­sand words. Con­tinue read­ing →

Harold Evans on the New York Times

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Great inter­view with Har­old Evans in the Inde­pend­ent:

“Should The New York Times be redesigned? Abso­lutely,” he says. “To give you one simple example of news­pa­per design. If you have one very attent­ive ear, you can hear rows in New York as people try to fol­low a sec­tion jump, from the first sec­tion to C section.

“If your wife or hus­band is already read­ing the C sec­tion and you have a jump, it’s impossible. The New York Times des­per­ately needs to rethink its whole design.” Con­tinue read­ing →

Arguing against Nick Davies

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Flat Earth News by Nick DaviesBritish writer Nick Dav­ies is an inspir­a­tion to a lot of young journ­al­ists, and rightly so (you can read more of his writ­ing on social issues here). But now he has moved from cov­er­ing drugs and crim­inal justice to report on journ­al­ism. And in doing so, he com­mis­sioned some research to back up his cri­ti­cisms and ana­lysis. Con­tinue read­ing →