Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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Covering the "Third War"



Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "Libyan War and the Media's Reaction"


Bill Carter, The New York Times: "CNN Leads in Cable News as MSNBC Loses Ground"

Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario, Stephen Farrell and Tyler Hicks, The New York Times: "4 Times Journalists Held Captive in Libya Faced Days of Brutality"

"Human Shields"





Jennifer Griffin & Justin Fishel, Fox News: "EXCLUSIVE: Libyans Use Journalists as Human Shields"




Latest Trends on Women in Journalism

Carolyn M. Byerly, Ph.D., International Women's Media Foundation: "Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media"


On the Media Takes Glass Challenge




Tim Groseclose and Jeffrey Milyo, The Quarterly Journal of Economics: "A Measure of Media Bias"

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Today's Show

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The Most Documented Event in History?

Multisource political news, world news, and entertainment news analysis by Newsy.com


Bill Carter, The New York Times: "Quake Coverage Draws Viewers to CNN"


Christine Russell, The Atlantic: "10 Critical Questions About Japan's Nuclear Crisis"


David Cay Johnston, Nieman Watchdog: "Ask This: Rebuilding after the terrible tragedy in Japan"

NPR: Good Journalism, Bad Management?



David Carr, The New York Times: "Gains for NPR Are Clouded"

Juan Williams, Fox News: "It's Time to Defund NPR"

Stephen Hill's Spatial Relations blog: "Funding the Future of Public Media"



Ira Glass, On the Media: "The Bias Bias"



Stoking the Old Media/New Media Fire


Bill Keller, The New York Times Magazine: "All the Aggregation That's Fit to Aggregate"

James Rainey, The Los Angeles Times: "On the Media: Patch.com's Newark plan smells of conflict"


Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism: "The State of the News Media 2011"

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Today's Show

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Sting Embarrasses NPR, CEO Resigns



Mark Memmott, NPR: "NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Resigns"

Mark Memmott, NPR: "Update: Latest On Aftermath of NPR Exec's Comments" (includes link to Morning Edition story)



Project Veritas: "Judge for Yourself -- NPR's Ron Schiller" (link to reportedly unedited video)

Jack Mirkinson, The Huffington Post: "Juan Williams Tears Into NPR Over Ron Schiller Scandal"

Brian Stelter and Elizabeth Jensen, The New York Times: "Facing Lawmakers' Fire, NPR Sees New Setback"

Jeff Jarvis, The Huffington Post: "NPR's Inevitable Conflict"


Ira Stoll, Future of Capitalism blog: "Entrapping NPR"

Trib Goes Both Ways on Hospital Allegations

Jodie Jackson Jr., Columbia Daily Tribune: "Patients in peril?"

Jodie Jackson Jr., Columbia Daily Tribune: "MU Health disputes investigators' findings of dirty instruments"


Jodie Jackson Jr., Columbia Daily Tribune: "PATIENTS IN PERIL?: Careful hand-washing shown to save lives"

Jody Jackson Jr., Columbia Daily Tribune: "PATIENTS IN PERIL?: 'Superbug' spurs patient's activism"

Jody Jackson Jr., Columbia Daily Tribune: "PATIENTS IN PERIL?: Ex-employee, hospital at odds"

Jody Jackson Jr., Columbia Daily Tribune: "PATIENTS IN PERIL?: Years after surgery, struggle continues"

Jerry B. Rogers, John W. Cowden, James P. St. Annard, J.L. Reeves-Viets and Robert P. Zitsch II, Columbia Daily Tribune: "Articles an affront to dedicated doctors"

Henry J. Waters III, Columbia Daily Tribune: "MU Health: Reports of poor sterilization"

Fallows: Making the Best of New Media

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Today's Show

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Psy-Ops or Anti-Military Bias?




Noah Shactman and Spencer Ackerman, Wired's Danger Room blog: "'Illegal Psyop' Neither Illegal Nor Psyop, General's Lawyer Ruled"



Megan McArdle, The Atlantic: "Mind Control Is Just Not That Easy"

Islam Tops Religion Coverage

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life: "Islam Was No. 1 Topic in 2010"

Women and Opinion Pieces





TBD: The Failure of Hyper-local News?

Alan Mutter, Reflections of a Newsosaur blog: "Hyperlocals like TBD: More hype than hope"

Paul Gillin, Newspaper Death Watch blog: "Hyperventilating over Hyperlocal"

Keeping Track of Churnalism