Hiatus Is Over….A Rough Week for Ombudsmen
Hi and welcome back! It’s been awhile. Admittedly, the care and feeding of this blog fell off last semester (sometimes life takes over) but now I’m back to reviving my little plant. So, of course,...
View Article‘Preemption’ Strategy: Where are the hard questions?
During the runup to the Iraq War, The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus was one of the few national security journalists challenging the weapons of mass destruction assumptions being made by the Bush...
View ArticleAfter the Paterno Debacle: A New Twitter Ethos Is Needed
My blog entry taking a look at Twitter and the sloppy reporting surrounding the death of Joe Paterno was posted at the Online Journalism Review today.
View ArticleCarnival of Journalism: Journalists as Capitalists
Haven’t we spent enough time asking what journalists can and can’t do? Haven’t we spent enough time asking what the definition of journalism is? Seriously, enough already. When I saw this month’s...
View ArticleWhy are we spending so much time ‘Measuring the Impact of Journalism?’
I love this question posed by Greg Linch in this month’s Carnival of Journalism. Almost every newsroom these days is driven by the need/desire to generate pageviews. The Washington Post’s newsroom...
View ArticleNPR’s Mark Stencel to visit UMass as first Howard Ziff Journalist-in-Residence
Mark Stencel, NPR’s managing editor for digital news, will be joining UMass journalism students and faculty during the week of April 16 as the program’s first Howard Ziff Journalist-in-Residence....
View ArticleUMass Journalism’s Howard Ziff Leaves Behind Larger-Than-Life Legacy
Howard M. Ziff, professor emeritus of Journalism at the University of Massachusetts, died early Tuesday morning. He was 81. On the “Friends of Howard Ziff” page on Facebook, Ziff’s son Max reported...
View ArticleThe 9/11 Anniversary Isn’t News? Says Who?
So, on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, the editors at the almighty New York Times don’t think there is enough news value to warrant any 9/11 anniversary coverage on the front page of...
View ArticleWhy Is Everyone So Pissed Off?
“Why Is Everyone So Pissed Off?” We see it everywhere. From Facebook to Twitter and e-mail: People seem really pissed off — and aren’t shy about being rude and crude in public discussions. Overall,...
View ArticleUMass Journalism Graduate Finds Himself in the Eye of Storm Coverage
An onlooker is shown here taking photos of the flooding of a parking lot at the edge of the Hudson River in Edgewater, N.J. — Courtesy of S.P. Sullivan. S.P. Sullivan, a 2010 graduate of the UMass...
View ArticleQ&A With Runner’s World Editor Hannah McGoldrick
This photo was taken from inside the press room at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel. The eerie part of this photo is the race clock was still running throughout everything, a constant reminder of how...
View ArticleQ&A With NPR.org’s Eric Athas
Boston on the day after the Boston Marathon bombings. Photo by Eric Athas. Eric Athas, a 2008 graduate of the UMass journalism program and a Digital News Specialist with NPR.org working out of Boston...
View ArticleQ&A With WHDH’s Melissa Turtinen
This photo, taken about two miles from the finish line Monday, was taken hours before the bombings. Photo by Melissa Turtinen. Melissa Turtinen, a 2009 UMass journalism graduate and now a Web Producer...
View ArticleThe Real Question for Jeff Bezos: Time to Invest in Journalism?
It’s been fascinating to watch the cheerleading that’s gone on since the announcement that the Graham family was selling The Washington Post to Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. When the announcement was...
View ArticleThoughts & Musings from #ONA13
I wanted to do a blog entry after my visit to Atlanta for ONA13 but I couldn’t focus on just one thing. So here are some thoughts and musings (in no particular order): * I left before the awards...
View ArticleMy “Quest” and the Future of Journalism Education
I’m on a quest. It’s a quest to bring responsible journalism to live-tweeting. It’s a good quest, a quest to change the work ethos of journalists when it comes to tweeting during breaking news events....
View ArticleRoxanne’s 10 Rules of Writing
From Teachapaloooza14 at The Poynter Institute: 95 percent of writing is thinking. Make the first 6-8 words count Eliminate marshmallow words; “there is”; very. Switch from honey boo boo writing to...
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