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I would love to chat with you about this horrific event…
How do you cover a tragedy in an age where things can come back to haunt you? Well, our friends at Gawker have pointed up a LiveJournal site where you can read all manner of journalistic appeals, and the public’s response (think ‘whores,’ ‘vultures,’ etc.) – God bless them. The site is the cyber equivalent…
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Virginia Tech
Jack Shafer posts a typically abrasive column at Slate on the VT killings which concludes: As reporters intrude into the lives of the grieving to mine the story, they should be guided more by a sense of etiquette than ethics. If they don’t risk going too far, they’ll never go far enough. I was early…
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Alan Johnston
This just in: Hello Adrian, I work at the BBC News website … I saw your recent post about creating a blog button for Alan Johnston. It was a good idea, so we’ve launched one on the editors’ blog today. ThanksAaron_____ Let’s keep our fingers crossed.
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AP on Times Online
The AP‘s Matt Moore has a piece out on European newspapers – European Papers Upbeat on Survival. It has an interesting nugget on the Times: Zach Leonard, the digital media publisher for the Times, said pressures of the online world were forcing old journalists to learn new tricks. For example, search engines’ tendency to reduce…