Articles tagged "journalism"

Filmmaker Sebastian Junger On the Fearless Photojournalist.

It lends wonderful insight into the humanizing aspect of photography.

This isn't the first time something like this has happened.

So says the Harvard scientist who unintentionally sparked a story so wrong it had to be right.

In our brave new drone world, UAVs aren’t just raining hellfire on Afghanistan, even today: they’re assisting humanfolk with a wide range of tasks that go by “the three D’s”—dull, dirty, and dangerous.

For the first times in years, mainstream media outlets are flooding the airwaves, pointing out the link between a warmer world and nastier storms.

Yeah, yeah, newspapers are doomed, budgets are collapsing, journalists are losing jobs, and unpaid writers are slaving away at traffic-whoring fast food posts for major outlets that promise the experience will give said unpaid writers a leg up in a d…

If science can't trust itself, how can researchers expect the already-fickle public to care about their work? That's the massive question flying around the science web right now, the result of one issue that's steadily becoming glaring: bias is becom…

Not far from the paper's shiny headquarters, the Times still keeps its morgue, the clippings archive that in the olden days was Google before Google, and where now newspaper clippings and photos - actual, physical things - go to die. Or to get resurr…

It has been over thirty years since readers of the New York Times were first subjected to the vacuous prose of Thomas Friedman. Back then he was simply a reporter covering the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, not yet the full-formed apologist for Empire

As an intern at the Believer in 2005, Jim Fingal was assigned to fact-check John D'Agata's article on the 2002 suicide of Las Vegas teenager Levi Presley. The article appeared in 2010, and the factchecking process forms the basis of the book "_The Li…

This is pretty amazing and chilling. Maybe you've heard by now that Amanda Knox won her appeal in Italy, where a court yesterday freed her after four years behind bars. Well the Daily Mail published a story on its website, presumably auto-published u…

_It's good to see that Fermilab is still getting some_ h3. ONE: FCC's report on how to improve local journalism in the age of the Webs ("FCC":http://www.fcc.gov/info-needs-communities) h3. Zero: A cheating computer ("Extreme Tech":http://www.ex…

In his review in the New York Times today, Michael Kinsley "calls Page One":http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/movies/page-one-inside-the-new-york-times-review.html, the documentary about the New York Times, "a mess." He's right, but not in the way…

In 1969, Eddie Adams won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his shot of "General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon." Later, he would lament the notoriety of the image and how it become synonymous with the atrocity and real…