journalism

had to redot this. some of the headlines regarding a-rod and his strip club visit...

Quoted: “Stray-Rod”
“A-Rod hits ‘home run’ with mystery blond?”
“Alex Rodriguez Shares His Yankee Doodle With Blond”
“Cynthia Rodriguez a Free Agent? A-Rod ‘Cheating’ Caught by New York Post”
...

Users on reddit pitched in to purchase $4,000 worth of flowers for Helen Thomas, honoring her commitment to being a journalist. Nice gesture.

by Wall Street Journal portrait artist Noli Novak

Reuters is getting into a bit of hot water over an obviously photoshopped picture of Beirut they posted as news.

Quoted: Ynet News: Reuters withdraws photograph of Beirut after Air Force attack after US blogs, photographers point out 'blatant evidence of manipulation.' Reuters' head of PR says in response, 'Reuters has suspended photographer until investigations are completed into changes made to photograph.' Photographer who sent altered image is same Reuters photographer behind many of images from Qana, which have also been subject of suspicions for being staged

Interesting Slate piece on what free online newspapers will mean for the industry at large, particulary the print editions.

Quoted: Until recently, there were two types of newspaper Web sites: those that made you pay to read many of the articles (the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times) and those that didn't. So, is this the death of subscription-model newspapers? And will the availability of so much free online journalism also doom their pricier print editions to a slow death?

Thomas Edison supposedly was an obsessive notetaker, with more than 5 million pages in his journal and archive. Amazing. Lifehack.org takes a high-level look at the system and outlines the main components.

I wonder how many pages of notes I have in Blue Dot?

A collection of amazing photos from the most recent Israel and Gaza battles.

Shiwani's new site. Also, checkout the archive of the live chat re: the Jindal article.

Quoted: Shiwani, a Jersey girl by birth (and at heart), is a Seattle-based freelance writer, editor, and Web producer whose work has appeared on MSN, The Root, and The Examiner online. She worked as a Web producer for MSN City Guides and the Slate Magazine group, and as an assistant editor at Oxford University Press.

Boom!