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Friday Jun 26, 2009

Jewish Pubs Join Forces: The Forward To Host Zeek

zeek.pngThis week, the weekly Jewish newspaper the Forward announced that will now host Zeek: A Journal of Jewish Thought and Culture on its Web site, TheJewishDailyForward.com.

Forward Editor Jane Eisner spoke with FishbowlNY this week to explain why her pub decided to partner with the cultural publication Zeek and how she feels about competition from other Jewish magazines like the recently launched online magazine Tablet.

"This partnership is something that has been in the works for several months," Eisner said. "It didn't come in response to anything else that any other publication was doing."

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Tuesday May 26, 2009

NY Judge To Be Obama's Supreme Court Nom

sotomayor.pngNBC is reporting that New York appellate court judge Sonia Sotomayor will be President Barack Obama's first nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States. If the nomination is approved, she will be the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, making Sotomayor's nomination a number of firsts.

The president is set to formally announce his nomination later this morning.

Friday May 22, 2009

Judge To Hear Request To Bar L.I. Press Photos Of Handcuffed Lawmaker

newsday1.pngSince it seems like almost everyone is heading out to the Hamptons this weekend, we thought we would give you a little Long Island media news.

Earlier this week, a federal judge said he will consider whether Long Island paper Newsday and TV station News 12 (both owned by Cablevision) can publish or broadcast photos or video of Nassau County Legislator Roger Corbin in handcuffs.

Corbin was arrested for tax evasion after failing to report income over $225,000 and lying about it, according to news reports. His lawyer, Thomas Liotti, filed a request with the court banning photos of Corbin in handcuffs after Newsday published eight pictures of the lawmaker with his hands behind his back as part of their coverage of his case, the paper reported. Newsday and News 12 argue that under the First Amendment they are free to publish any photos they wish.

But on Wednesday, Judge Arthur Spatt ruled that such images of Corbin might violate his right to a fair trial, so he scheduled a hearing on the matter. However, Judge Spatt refused to grant Liotti's requests banning Newsday and News 12 from publishing the photos before the hearing and ordering Long Island authorities to stop walking Corbin around -- in the aptly-titled "perp walk" -- in front of cameras.

It's an interesting case that raises questions of freedom of the press and public figures' right to privacy. If he wasn't a legislator, would Corbin still be getting the same treatment from the judge? Papers and local television stations publish and broadcast photos of suspects in handcuffs all the time. And, if every citizen has access to the same photos, why is Corbin's right to a fair trial in danger more than others? Do you think its fair for a federal judge to tell the media what to publish?

Friday May 08, 2009

White House Aide Resigns Over Flyover

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End of the week news just came out of the White House on the eve of the White House Correspondents' Dinner when no one is really paying attention. Louis Caldera, director of the White House Military Office, resigned today after organizing the fake Air Force One flyover that scared lower Manhattan last month. In his resignation letter, Caldera said the April 27 incident "has made it impossible for me to effectively lead" the military office.

The White House also released a full report about the flyover as well as pictures from it today (above).

Huffington Says The Internet Isn't Killing Newspapers At Senate Hearings

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Wednesday, the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing on "The Future of Journalism" with testimony from experts on new media and the newspaper industry. Committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry called for the hearing to examine what, if anything, the government can do to save the newspaper industry from seemingly unstoppable decline.

Many of the day's speakers had ideas for improving the state of print journalism. They also seemed ready to take on news aggregators like Google and the Huffington Post.


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Wednesday Apr 22, 2009

Mirror, Mirror: Big Fish Dominate Media Beat Awards

r111news.jpgThe Mirror Awards, begun in 2006 with the intention of honoring the work of media beat writers and Web sites, have proven a good forum for the industry to honor reporters and columnists like Times columnist David Carr, the New Yorker's Ken Auletta, and Joe Strupp over at Editor & Publisher. All three got their annual nods (three for three guys!), and this year's finalists are, again, pretty much all pulled from big media companies. Out of 140 entries, 12 of the 29 nominees hail from Conde Nast. There are a couple unconventional picks, but despite the fact that there are plenty of excellent smaller players these days on the media criticism beat, most came from the big guys. Regardless, congrats to all.

Full list of nominees after the jump...

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Tuesday Apr 14, 2009

U.S. Journo Rushed to Trial in Iran

20090302_roxana_saberi_33.jpgThe news is not getting any better for American journalist Roxana Saberi, 31, who was arrested in Iran in January ostensibly for working without press credential, but was later charged with espionage.

The Times is reporting that Saberi (who has dual American/Iranian citizenship) was rushed to trial yesterday, behind closed doors. An Iranian spokesperson said "Yesterday, the first trial session was held. She presented her final defense...The court will issue its verdict within the next two to three weeks."

The Times says it is "unclear why the trial was moving at such a fast pace -- especially because the charges leveled against Saberi were so serious." The U.S. Government has been pushing for Sabieri's release and her parent's are apparently in Iran right now, though they have yet to speak publicly to the press there, though they have been very vocal here in the US since their daughter's arrest.

Friday Jan 16, 2009

First on the Scene: Twittering the 'Hudson Miracle'

gghudsonf.jpgYesterday's plane crash on the Hudson provided yet another example of how new media has enabled citizen journalists to beat the mainstream to the punch. Perhaps the most passed around picture of crash was taken by Janis Krums from the deck of a ferry which had diverted to rescue passengers evacuating from flight 1549 — Krums Twittered the picture saying ""There's a plane in the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.". It also one of the first bits of evidence that people had survived the crash. According to the Times "plane-related tweets accounted for eight of the ten top "trending topics" (Hudson River, MSNBC, US Airways, LaGuardia, etc.)." We first heard about the crash via our Facebook newsfeed where someone had updated with a link to another picture of the plane on the Hudson and passengers on the wing. How about you? Where did you first hear about it?

Thursday Jan 15, 2009

Pictures of Flight 1549 in the Hudson

A friend of ours is currently watching Flight 1549 being towed by the window of her apartment just below 14th st.

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NYT Covers the Hudson River Plane Crash

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First of all various local news sources and Facebook links are reporting that everyone got off safely! Unbelievable. The NYT.com was a bit slow to get news of the Hudson plane crash on their home page (they had a breaking news update running up top at 3:48 — after the jump). The front page screen grab above didn't go up until close to 4pm. Flickr photo here of the plane in the water with passengers on the wings. Another Twitter pic here. For those of you not in front of the television MSNBC is running live feed here. TVNewser also has coverage.

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The Financial Crisis Explained: It Was All Just Pretend Money

China Reduces Restrictions on Foreign Journos

Today in the Stockmarket: Monday Monday, Can't Trust That Day?

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The Financial Crisis is Making Us Smarter

The Dow Crashes, The NYT.com Goes Down, We Chat With Clusterstock's John Carney

AP Reports Missing US Journalists Currently Being Held in Syria

Two American Journalists Missing in Lebanon

The Dow Jones: Monday Morning Coming Down

Gawker Lays Off 19 Editorial Staff Including Moe Tkacik

The Bailout That Wasn't! An Expert Tells Us Whether or Not to Panic

Breaking: House Votes Against Bailout

Do Magazine Organization Execs Deserve Their Salaries While the Industry Burns Around Them?

The Wall St. Bailout: Is it Really a Good Idea to Give the Administration All the Purse Strings?

Wherein Gawker Hijacks the Election

Should the Front Page of NYT.com Be Giving Us a Panic Attack?

Does Gawker Have Screen Grabs of Sarah Palin's Personal Email Acct?

A Side of Press Freedom With Your Turkey?

Media Freedom in China Here to Stay?

A Date by Any Other Name Could Spell Financial Doom

Wherein We Look Around for a Fannie and Freddie Explanation We Can Understand

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FBLA Gets the Scoop on Microsoft's New Campaign About Nothing.

The MSM Finally Meets the John Edwards Love Child

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Is Scrabulous No More?

In Case You're Wondering Where All the News Went

Yahoo, Microsoft and Google Take it to the Judge

Hello! My Name is Inigo Hussein Montoya

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Brian Williams to Host Meet the Press This Sunday

Michelle Obama: A Softer View?

Hachette Names New CEO, Kliger to be Chairman

The AP Aims to Put an End to the 'Free-Wheeling Blogosphere'

The Media Wonders Why Terms Like 'She-Devil' Make People Think It's Sexist

The Fat Lady Sings on Yahoo and Microsoft Deal

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Past is Prologue: Putin Disappearing the Russian Media, Literally

Vanity Fair Strikes Back at the Clintons

Young People: The News is Exhausting Us!

Clinton Camp Calling Foul on Vanity Fair Profile

Worth Noting: Salon Has Their Say on How Women in the Media are Living Now

Wonkette Denies She's Buying Wonkette

Rupe Is an Obama Groupie, Thinks Olbermann Is Crazy

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White House Gunning to be Ombudsman to All

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Elvis Probably Not Alive, Cell Phones Probably Okay for Pregnant Women

Pecker on Whether Bonnie Fuller was Money Well Spent

Emily Gould: Maybe the Eagle is About to Get Sucked into a Jet Engine

WSJ Connects With its Feminine Side

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Help Rupe Make Up His Mind

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NYTs is Big EPpy Winner of the Night

Senate Throws a Wrench into Masters of the Universe Plan

Time to Get Healthy Again

Twitter Me This

Robert Novak: Actually That Whole Valerie Plame Thing Wasn't Such a Big Deal

What Rupe Needs is a Radar O'Reilly

Everyone But the Networks Seem to be Talking About that NYT's Military Analyst Story

Who Will Be Left to Run the Washington Post?!

At My School They Had a Word for this Sort of Thing

Dolans to Newsday: We May Own You, But That Doesn't Mean We Have to Like You, or Talk to You

Maybe Carl Icahn is Just the Sort of Relationship Therapist Yahoo Needs

Is Bloomberg Preparing to Court the Gray Lady?

Rupe to be Arianna's Next Blogger?

Chris Matthews Not Such a Fan of How the NYT's Plays Hardball

Maybe All Tim Russert Was Missing Was a Bucket of Water

How Well Do You Know Your MoDo?

Norm Pearlstine Jumps to Bloomberg

Huckabee's Not-So-Divine Intervention?

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