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10 Things You Need To Know About 24-Year-Old Pulitzer Prize Winner Sara Ganim
Shift Buzz Ganim just won for local reporting on the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Here's the lowdown on this journalistic wunderkind.
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How The NY Times, Maxim, And HuffPo Write Occupy Wall Street Headlines
Politics Buzz Too bad they didn't look into how we do it here at BuzzFeed. (via mediaite.com)
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15 Unnecessary Journalism Phrases
Culture Buzz If you've been living under a rock lately, you might have missed the very unique Unnecessary Journalism Phrases. This blog is a game changer on steroids!
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Image: Fox News Reports On Obama’s 50th Birthday
Here's another screencap of a really awful Fox News headline! Obviously this was the work of an overzealous intern and not a professional journalist. (via inothernews.tumblr.com)
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Image: Want to See Boobs In The Newspaper?
Richard Wall will always be remembered for the things he loved: fast bikes, his kids, and the photos of naked ladies he left hanging on his wall. RIP.
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Link: Video Game Review Comment Bingo
http://www.richardcobbett.com/codex/review-comment-thread...
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“Go back to FarmVille” is going to be my new retort for everything.
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Video: Pelosi Causes Reporter To Take It In The Jewels
Apparently this reporter was a little too excited about talking to Nancy Pelosi, and didn't see the crotch-high metal pole in time to avoid it. That's dedicated journalism.
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Laura Ling and Euna Lee Sentenced to 12 Years in Labor Prison
Politics Buzz Detained since March 17th, Current.tv journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee have been charged with illegally crossing into North Korea. According to the BBC and AP, the two women were just sentenced to 12 years in labor prison and cannot appeal, as they were tried in North Korea's highest court. The most accurate and breaking news about the journalists' sentencing can be found at the LiberateLaura Twitter.
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NYT Hires Its First Social Media Editor
Tech Buzz The New York Times might be laying off writers (and dropping the entire Boston Globe), but they just hired their first Social Media Editor. Jennifer Preston will be the Twittering, Tumblring, Facebooking, etc. master of the Times — and she's already soliciting Twitter for ideas on how to do just that. Is she on Buzzfeed yet? Jennifer, is that you posting 'shopped Kate Gosselins?
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Link: Living Medievally
http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n3/htdocs/medieval-slimes-...
“Investigative journalism” reaches a new high/low (depending on how you look at it) as a writer goes for two weeks prohibiting himself from engaging in “any sanitary practices developed before the Age of Enlightenment.” Totally forgot what chamber pots were meant for before reading this.
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Image: Chicago Tribune Masthead Twitters
You knew this was coming: the Chicago Tribute replaces masthead names with Twitter accounts. Not the first newspaper to jump on the Twitter bandwagon, but definitely to first to Twitterize the entire staff via the Masthead.
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Link: Top 10 Endangered Newspapers
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1883785,...
Those smug bastards over at Time magazine have drawn up a list of the ten major newspapers most likely to go under or go digital very soon. Topping the list is the Philadelphia Daily News, which nobody reads anyway (I'm from Philly), but some non-second-rate papers included on the list are the Chicago Sun-Times and the Boston Globe, which is reportedly losing $1 million each week.
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Roxana Saberi
Culture Buzz Miss North Dakota (1997) has been working as a freelance journalist in Iran and is currently MIA. She was last heard from on February 10th, when she called home after being arrested for buying a bottle of wine. C'mon everybody, let's find this girl and bring her home.
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Link: Twitter Fight!
http://www.mediastyle.ca/2009/02/national-post-reporter-h...
Reporter calls PR person; PR person doesn't call him back in time for his deadline; reporter totally flips the f*ck out. On Twitter.
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Link: Andrea Mitchell, Gay Icon
http://www.observer.com/2009/o2/gays-go-ga-ga-over-andrea...
Andrea Mitchell, lady-journo and wife of Alan Greenspan, is apparently beloved by gay men. If this is true, does that make Willard Scott a lesbian's ideal dinner guest?
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Link: Orson Scott Card
http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/081017light.html
Science fiction and political writer Orson Scott Card writes a scathing criticism of local newspapers for the conservative Rhinoceros Times newspaper of North Carolina. Card is pissed that the media blames the Republicans for the financial crisis. Card himself is a Democrat.
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One Person Trend Stories
Tech Buzz A site devoted to mocking trend stories by writing new ones. Journalists like to say that three is a trend — find any three people who are doing the same thing/eating the same food/wearing the same color, and you’ve got the basis for a trend piece. This site takes that ridiculous premise and somehow lowers the bar.
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Thomas A. Johnson
Culture Buzz Thomas A. Johnson, the first black Newsday and New York Times journalist, passed away at the age of 79. Johnson was one of the first black foreign correspondents for a major daily media publication, served as the president of CNN for ten years, and founded Black Enterprise Magazine.
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Amanda Lorber
TV Buzz The (generally loved) star of MTV’s high school paper reality show fires back at a Columbia University reporter with a very eloquent letter. Wow, so this is what it’s like to be a Good Communicator. If you’re like me, you probably haven’t crushed out on a girl on a reality show since that one with Lisa Loeb got canceled.
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