The Pacification of Rio’s Favelas
This is a great roundup of stories and videos on what’s going on inside the worst neighborhoods in Rio. (As always, I wonder out loud why I haven’t seen any of these stories in the mainstream media,...
View ArticleLooser than average ends
Let’s just dig into the bucket of links I’ve been mailing myself from Tweetie, er, Twitter for the iPhone, and see what we can tie together here… There is now a “Share on Twitter” bookmarklet for your...
View ArticleTexas statehouse press corps arms themselves. To use the express lane.
Texas statehouse press corps arms themselves. To use the express lane at capitol security. What? via
View ArticleWikileaks and The New York Times
Wikileaks and The New York Times: Wade Keller confirms what I, for one, suspected about the relationship between the two. Assange was (mostly) treated as a source of data, but as with all sources, it’s...
View ArticleSolid notes on the evolution of the beat
Solid notes on the evolution of the beat: A set of slides from Matt Thompson on the shift from “Stories to Streams.” Included: A briefly imagined alternate history of how the Enron story might break in...
View ArticleAndy Carvin, human verification machine
Is This the World’s Best Twitter Account? Craig Silverman talks with Andy Carvin about covering revolution from afar, performing atomized acts of journalism to connect individual tweets to sourcing,...
View ArticleThe weatherman tweets
The weatherman tweets: How James Spann sparked a social news phenomenon. Excellent use of social media to get news out through any available channel in a storm. Gives me flashbacks to listening to...
View ArticleSocial media + art + journalism = The courtroom-tweet-sketch
Social media + art + journalism = The courtroom-tweet-sketch: An expected outcome of courtroom tweeting. Would love to see coverage of the Supreme Court along these lines, with NPR’s Nina Totenberg...
View ArticleDoes Andy Carvin scale?
From @-reply triage to journalistic meme-tracking: How NPR may scale Andy Carvin’s Twitter curation: How do you take @acarvin’s methods (I think the tools already exist) and build them into a news...
View ArticleAn A1 centerpiece without a headline
Today’s Newark Star-Ledger centerpiece story runs without a headline. Intentionally: Charles Apple notes a piece of engaging print design on the front page. It’s a seemingly banal photograph with three...
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