Tag: journalism

Stanley Karnow Dies: Vietnam Reporter Was 87
Stanley Karnow, a journalist most famous for covering the entirety of the Vietnam War, has died at the age of 87. Accordi...
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Twitter Adds Trends For 100 More Cities
Twitter announced today that it has added Trends for 100 more cities around the world. Among them are Istanbul, Frankfurt, Guadalajara and Incheon. That puts the total number of l...
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Here’s What PRWeb Had To Say About The Google Acquisition “News” Flub
On Monday, a bogus press release was issued via Vocus-owned press release distribution service PRWeb indicating that Google had bought Wi-Fi company ICOA for $400 million. Both com...
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Watch Joel Stein’s 45-Minute Talk At Google [Video]
Google has uploaded video from a recent Authors@Google talk, featuring Joel Stein, journalist and author of "Man Made: A Stupid Quest For...
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Fake Storm Photos From Hurricane Sandy Shouldn’t Get Too Far, Thanks To Social Media
As you've no doubt seen, photos from Hurricane Sandy have flooded (no pun intended) the Internet on social media and photo sharing sites like Flickr and Instagram. Instagram CE...
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People Are Posting A Ridiculous Amount Of Hurricane Sandy (Frankenstorm) Pictures To Instagram
People are posting a ridiculous amount of images of Hurricane Sandy and its effects on Instagram. Users are posting ten pics to the hashtag #sandy every second. That's according to...
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Bing Adds News Authors To Sidebar
Bing announced today that it has launched a new section for the Bing sidebar to showcase journalists, writers and authors of news stories. Now, when you search for any given topic...
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We’ve Now Had Google News For An Entire Decade
Google announced over the weekend that it is celebrating the tenth anniversary of Google News' launch. The product was unveiled on September 22, 2002, and has gone through quite a...
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Twitter Puts Together “Best Practices” For Journalists
Twitter has put together a set of "best practices" for journalists and newsrooms. Essentially, it...
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Robot Writers Are Taking Over Your Fantasy Football Recaps
The next time that your flex player makes a last second reception to clinch the victory over your fantasy football nemesis, there's a good chance that you'll be able to read a writ...
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Now, You Can Embed Quotes From Quora On Your Site
You can now embed quotes from Quora on your site, with a new feature from the Q&A destination appropriately called Embeddable Quotes. "Sites all around the web already quote co...
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Helen Gurley Brown Dies After 47 Years Of Editing At Cosmopolitan
Helen Gurley Brown, the long-time editor-in-chief for Cosmopolitan magazine, has passed away at the age of 90. She took...
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Fake NY Times Article Hurts WikiLeaks’ Credibility
Journalism has many rules that its practitioners must abide by. There are the usual rules like don't plagiarize and always confirm your sources, but there's one that I think is the...
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Nora Ephron, Filmmaker and Journalist, Dead at 71
Nora Ephron, who is probably best known to movie-goers as the writer/director responsible for such motion pictures as "Sleepless in Seattle", "Michael", and "You've Got Mail", pass...
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Automated Insights: Computers May Not Replace Human Writers, As Long As Perspectives Exist
There are companies currently providing machine-generated content to various sites and businesses - articles created by machines rather than humans. Some wonder if the future of jo...
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