The Supreme Court rejected an appeal filed by New York Times reporter James Risen in which he argued that he should not be forced to testify in a case against former C.I.A. operative Jeffrey Sterling, who is suspected of leaking classified information to Risen. It it not yet clear, Risen’s lawyer said, whether federal…
AP Editor Accidentally Adds Her Buzzfeed Cover Letter to Photo Caption
Job-hunting at work is dangerous. Online multitasking is dangerous. Online multitasking your work with your job hunt is deadly. Just ask this Associated Press photo editor.
Another one bites the dust. After 63 years in print, Jet magazine is now online-only. This month's issue was its last.
Look, this whole "nerdprom" problem is very simple: All you self-loathing/self-obsessed D.C. media people who go to and/or talk about the White House Correspondents Dinner are not, technically speaking, "nerds." You are "tools."
Fox News reportedly used random b-roll video of sad Asians from other places as stand-ins for actual Koreans during a segment on the Korean ferry disaster. In fairness, lots of stations use b-roll that's unrelated to the story at hand. Few do it in such a racially and ethnically tone-deaf way.
Watch Some Nuts at the Bundy Ranch Corner and Grill a Latino Reporter
There are a lot of tough jobs in journalism. Like last Friday, when Antonio Castelan of News 3 Las Vegas ventured out to the Bundy Ranch to interview the old racist cowman himself, Cliven Bundy, and ended up getting interrogated by a right-wing radio host and 30 of his biggest friends.
DRUDGE IN DISARRAY!
See, Matt gets it.
The New U.S.-Russia Cold War Is Not About to Happen Between Dolphins
Last month, Russia seized Ukraine's combat dolphins. This week, the U.S. Navy was rumored to be deploying its own dolphins to the Black Sea. The Great Game seemed upon us once again: the warm-water game of cold war. But more likely, the American media just got played by a Kremlin mouthpiece.
Jonah Lehrer has a new blog, and Malcolm Gladwell likes it. According to Gawker's computerized plagiarism analysis, it includes two unoriginal statements: "It's a simple question with a complicated answer," and "At first glance, the answer seems obvious." So Lehrer's moved on to clichés now.
The New York Times' new data-driven explainery site, The Upshot, currently estimates that Democrats have a 51 percent chance of retaining control of the Senate. Bold projection, or not-too-subtle "FU" to Nate Silver? Or both? It's definitely not neither.
Slate is resurrecting its paid membership program. Among the many perks available: “Slate Plus members will automatically get single-page articles throughout the site.” Price: $50/year.
French Journalists Held Hostage in Syria Describe Nightmare Ordeal
Four French journalists who were kidnapped and held hostage in Syria for ten months say that despite the nightmare ordeal, they never lost hope.
Site Glitch Reveals Who Nominated Themselves For Pulitzer Prize
As part of its secretive judging process, the Pulitzer Prize committee closely guards the names of outlets and reporters who submit their work for consideration. But a loophole in the Prize’s online submission website inadvertently revealed that BuzzFeed and The Daily Beast sought but did not win journalism’s highest…
New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson tells Employee of the Month host Catie Lazarus* that she has two back tattoos: Her newspaper’s “T” insignia and “a Crimson Harvard ‘H,’” both of which represent “the two institutions that I revere, that have shaped me.”
Huffington Post has pulled an infographic and article suggesting a link between U.S. killings by vets and their war service, after Gawker and Business Insider debunked them. "We regret that the data as presented in our graphic was incomplete and misleading," a HuffPo editors' note read.
Scuffle Breaks Out On-Air When Protestor Interrupts CBS Reporter
A scuffle between a very loud protestor, a CBS crew member, and reporter Jay Levine interrupted broadcasts on two networks yesterday, prompting mounted police to secure the scene.
British investment banker and former Financial Times reporter Andrew Balls says he supplemented his FT salary by...writing speeches for the vice chairman of Citigroup. Cool.
Spanish Journalists Freed After Six-Month Syrian Captivity
Spanish newspaper El Mundo's Middle East correspondent Javier Espinosa (above, right) and photographer Ricardo Garcia Vilanova (above, left), kidnapped six months ago by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a radical Islamist group, have been freed.
No, soccer legend Pele is not dead. But if he did die later today, someone might want to ask CNN where they were.
Times Story on Pakistan-Bin Laden Ties Vanishes in Pakistan Papers
International editions of the New York Times appeared in Pakistan Saturday with a huge gaping white space where a story on Pakistan's alleged ties to Osama Bin Laden should have been, according to multiple reports from journalists and observers in the region.
