journalism

Looks like the woman who stole the piece Amy and I wrote has a history of plagiarism...

Quoted: The WSJ isn't the only place that writer Mona Sarika plagiarized in her columns.

Oh my god, parts of the article I co-wrote were plagiarized in this WSJ piece!

Quoted: The Wall Street Journal has scrubbed an article from its website after learning that it was plagiarized from several sources. "A Nov. 10 "New Global Indian" online column by New York City freelance writer Mona Sarika has been found to contain information that was plagiarized from several publications, including the Washington Post, Little India, India Today and San Francisco magazine," a notice to readers now reads where the column once lived.

Quoted: The New York Times asked Jimmy Wales, a co-founder of Wikipedia, for his help when David Rohde was kidnapped and the news was being posted.

If she made links to the journalists' work more prominent (like linking the headline), there probably wouldn't be an issue.... well, maybe if you're being paid per page view.

Quoted: Pinch any journalist (print, Web, or broadcast) who creates what he considers original copy, and he's likely to regale you with the stories of how his publication's product has been stolen or otherwise misappropriated by a Web site. More often than not, the wronged will point his finger at the Huffington Post, the self-styled "Internet newspaper" launched by Arianna Huffington in 2005.

Sad... The article makes some really good points, though.

Quoted: A moment of sympathy, please, for newspapers, whose readers and advertisers have been fleeing at a frightening rate.

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

These reactions from Iraqis are fascinating to read - some in support of and others critical of the journalist who threw his shoes at Bush.

Quoted: An American military patrol in Najaf on Monday was pelted by shoes thrown by supporters of Moktada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric. In Tikrit, journalists demonstrated in support of the Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at President Bush during a news conference yesterday.

Jovencio makes lovely handbound journals on etsy. I may pick one up for my trip this month...

Sad... apparently Gannett just laid off 10% of its workers (about 3,000 people) and Time Inc. is cutting 600 jobs. Not to mention book publishers, who are downsizing left and right.

Quoted: The paradox is that the print media do not have an audience problem, but a consumer problem.