Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
LIVERPOOL Daily Post journalist Peter Elson has won Britain’s most prestigious award for maritime writers.
Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? The *New York Times*: >Corrections - Correction - NYTimes.com: An article on July 3 reported on aborted plans for the publisher of The Washington Post to hold corporate-sponsored dinner parties including Post journalists. One issue in the controversy was that the dinners were being promoted as “off the record.”...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Today's New York Times includes a "post-script" to the paper's Sept.12 piece that reported on the resignation of Charles Pelton, the former Washington Post executive at the center of the salon-gate controversy. In July, Politico broke news that the Post planned to host private dinners at the home of Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth, where corporate sponsors could...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
FORMER Daily Post journalist John Sergeant is well-used to playing the fall guy.
Editor And Publisher (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
The New York Times carried a rare "Postscript" in today's paper in the space where "corrections" and "editors notes" run, raising quetions about whether it is, between the lines, charging the top Washington Post editor, Marcus Brauchli (left) with not telling the truth.
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Hardly shocking news, but it's always good to note for the record whenever a mainstream media journalist admits – or boasts – of voting for the more liberal presidential candidate. The Nobel Peace Prize going to President Barack Obama prompted such an admission from long-time Washington Post reporter Ruth Marcus, the paper's deputy national editor from 1999 through 2002 (...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Former New York Times and Washington Post journalist Richard Halloran spoke at Saint Mary's Thursday to discuss a variety of myths that the public holds about the media. Halloran covered seven particular myths about which he felt the public should be aware.
EtcView.Com (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Founded almost a century ago, the Washington Post is the oldest daily serving the D.C. area, and is considered one of America’s pre-eminent newspapers. Focusing on news and information about the White House and the U.S. government in general, it is the 6th largest newspaper in the United States with a weekday circulation of 656,297 [...]
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
What is probably most ironic about the story that you are about to read is the fact that an journalistic icon, the Washington Post, is trying to maintain control of its staff while it can’t even keep an internal memo from going public. Having made that observation from the start you can see that this is not going to get any better for them. The information that has hit the media...
E - Editors Weblog (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
The Washington Post is the lastest in a series of publications to release a set of guidelines for its journalists to follow in their use of social networking websites. The move comes after a managing editor of the Post, Raju...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
The Washington Post has sent a memo to its editors/journalists outlining the publication's social media policies. They don't leave too many options for what is actually allowed to take place on social networks. This is an issue that never really seems to go away, and is brought up every time a publication's social media policies are discovered. The topic has come up with both...
Stephen Baker - The Numerati (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
... to benefit from hosts of vocal and free-spirited brand ambassadors in the social Web. Yet the Washington Post, with its new social media guidelines , is attempting to corral every independent voice in its organization. I'm betting it won't work. First, I should mention that lots of the points the Post editors make are on target. Journalists do represent their publication...
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
MG Siegler / TechCrunch: Twitter Unearths A Secret: Journalists Have Opinions — “All Washington Post journalists relinquish some of the personal privileges of private citizens. Post journalists must recognize that any content associated with them in an online social network is, for practical purposes …
Good Morning Silicone Valley (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
“When using social networking tools for reporting or for our personal lives, we must remember that Washington Post journalists are always Washington Post journalists. … “When using these networks, nothing we do must call into question the impartiality of our news judgment. We...
Public Opinion (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
... us to “news as conversation,” more of a back-and-forth debate and less of a pronouncement. The Washington Post has Social Media Guidelines are severe: Post journalists must refrain from writing, tweeting or posting anything—including photographs or video—that could be perceived as reflecting political, racial, sexist, religious or other bias or favoritism that could be used...
