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The Associated Press issued an excellent new policy this past week that I thought you’d want to know about. It addresses a concern I’ve shared with you before – how to let web readers know the source and reliability of information they’re reading in news stories. For its part, the AP discussed and then implemented a [...] Advertisement
Political cartoonist Paul Conrad, who made both the elite list of three-time Pulitzer Prize winners and Richard Nixon’s enemies list, has died. His commentary and cartoons will be missed – if not by politicians of both parties, certainly by readers and journalists. Here is the Associated Press obituary for Conrad, and a few of his cartoons. By ANDREW [...]
In this Nov. 30, 1989 file photo, Jules Loh is seen in New York. Loh, an Associated Press reporter who covered the civil rights revolution, the space program and other major stories before carving out a second career roaming the United States in search of the odd, the offbeat and the extraordinary, died [...] In this June 24, 2010 file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano gestures while speaking in Denver. For at least a year, political appointees inside the Homeland Security Department routinely delayed releases of even run-of-the-mill government papers under the Freedom of Information Act while they reviewed requests they deemed controversial or sensitive from news [...]
Fans holds signs during a tribute to New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who died Tuesday, before the Yankees’ baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday, July 16, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) The “new” world of journalism has resurrected a bit of the “old” world of journalism: fierce competition [...] A Brown Pelican sits in heavy oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon has affected wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) As the Gulf oil disaster continues, the danger of course is that the media, the nation’s [...] The conversation is lively today on Missoulian.com, and one of the links attracting considerable talk is this morning’s editorial on the problems journalists are encountering in trying to cover the Gulf oil disaster. Here’s what the Missoulian said: Daily we are brought to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, so far from western Montana, thanks to [...] A blue heron stands in the surf as oil cleanup crews make their morning patrol along the beach in Gulf Shores, Ala., Wednesday, June 16, 2010. Fish and other wildlife are fleeing the oil out in the Gulf and clustering in cleaner waters along the coast. AP Photo/Dave Martin Three weeks have passed since the [...] The tipping point came late last week. Forty-five days into the Gulf oil spill disaster, pelicans began arriving on the beaches of Louisiana and Alabama covered in oil, unable to save themselves. Associated Press photographers were there already, documenting the increasingly ineffective attempts at cleaning up the oil washing into America’s wetlands. They turned their [...] |
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Airport workers look at an air tanker that crashed through a fence at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport Saturday June 26, 2010 in Broomfield, Colo. The crash has prompted officials to shut down its slurry resupply operation at the Broomfield airport for at least the rest of the day, a decision that could hamper efforts [...]