Archive for February, 2009
Recent Articles
- If you haven’t been there already
- This week in Der Spiegel
- Ira Glass: “Newspapers and network news deserve to die”
- Band of Doctors
- Starbucks Faces Problems in New York City
- Changing Media Landscape - Discussion at the J-School
- New Media, New Opportunities
- Bike Share in New York City
- Life in a Radio Bubble - Recap of Election Night Coverage
- Rachel Sklar will do twitter interview after leaving Huffington Post
Featured Articles
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Phil Rosenthal, writer of the Chicago Tribune asks: “Now that people get what they want the way they want on the Internet, where does that leave those mainstream media outlets that, in traditional fashion, pair the news people want with the news it is thought they need?” Charles Gibson, anchor of ABC World News Tonight, has [...]
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The “U.S. vs. Libby” lawsuit did not only put an administration and its actions in the wake of the Iraq war on trial, but featured many stars of the political media landscape on the witness stand. I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former top aide to Vice-President Dick Cheney was on trial for purgery and obstruction to federal [...]
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An attentive observer could come to the conclusion that the conflict in Iraq was solved a long time ago, the next elections would still be years away and all political issues resolved. At least one will get this impression when tuning in to either MSNBC or FOX News these days. While President Bush is announcing his [...]
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In 2006, the Tyndall Report notices a bigger coverage of the Iraq war in the American media than in 2005. Hurricane Katrina also is still among the leaders in the battle for airtime minutes. For 20 years, the report of Andrew Tyndall measures each evening which topics get the most coverage among the three leading evening [...]
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Each Sunday, Tim Russert, host of NBC’s Meet the Press, interviews the most influential politicians and most important press members in his Sunday talk show and it should come to no surprise that there is only one topic since the mid-term elections: Iraq. In a recent episode, Russert talked to two columnists of The New York [...]
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Ira Glass: “Newspapers and network news deserve to die”
Christiane Amanpour attended the DuPont Awards Winners’ Circle inside the Lecture Hall this year to talk about her winning documentary “God’s Warriors” but also to react to criticism by earlier remarks from Ira Glass who said he could have never voted for this years winners.
Amanpour: “Yes, we are serious about that. The world is a serious place. The things that confront us are serious things. We don’t want to make fun or make light of the serious things. That does not mean that we cannot create compelling, interesting television.”
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