In Peggy McIntosh’s article ‘White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack’ she uses a listicle to describe 50 ways she is privileged. From being able to talk with her mouth full (#17), nice neighbors (#4), and even being late ( #39) she matter-a-factly addresses the way she, as white woman, is privileged. She didn’t write her […]
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Errors in reporting: a very straightforward apology
Posted by: Savannah Norton | March 28, 2016 | No Comment |In October of 2014, online sports news website, Deadspin published a story that questioned what U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner has said publicly about his time playing high school football. Deadspin’s story suggested Gardner didn’t play any football, but it was incorrect. Editor Tommy Craggs wrote an apology with the headline, “How Deadspin Fucked Up The Cory Gardner Story.” This […]
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Tags: apology, credibility, errors, false reporting, News, savannah norton, snorton, Sports
Tags: apology, credibility, errors, false reporting, News, savannah norton, snorton, Sports
Recently I read on of the best articles I’d read in a while. Part feature, part investigative it’s a Washington Post article called ‘A Marine’s Convictions’ written by reporter John Woodrow Cox. It chronicles Marine Maj Mark Thompson, who was accused of sleeping with two students while a teacher at the Naval Acadamy– an […]
On a tragic Nov. 22 over 52 years ago, Americans were bombarded with the news of President John F. Kennedy assassination in Dallas, Texas. According to Reuters “the six seconds” that ended with the U.S. President’s life, transformed news coverage and the way people perceived the media. The news spread very rapidly. According to The […]
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Humans have always been curious about what is going on around them. Before the news as we know it today, people used to spread tales of events and things in their close environment or far away for different reasons. The information people shared was used as time-filler, diversion and entertainment. It also provided a kind […]
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Tags: badiaa mansouri, Demand for News, media coverage, need for news, News, war, word-of-mouth
Tags: badiaa mansouri, Demand for News, media coverage, need for news, News, war, word-of-mouth
There’s nothing new about a coffee shop. Since their inception they have been a place to gather, exchange ideas, and indulge. A multipurpose space, used for business meetings, interviews, dates, and in the old times (think 1700s )– news. A quick Google search highlights coffee’s roots and its journey from the Ethiopian forest to the […]
New and emerging forms of social media are not only changing the way organizations attract supporters, but are also changing the way we look at politics all together. In essence, nearly all Americans have a cellphone or at least access to a computer these days, and the majority of us have evolved to a much, […]
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A broadside was one of the first forms of widespread printed news. Broadsides are basically one-page sheets of news that often also contained some sort of picture or illustration to depict the message of the article. Most broadsides were set up so that the top part was a “woodcut or copper engraving” of an important, often historical, […]
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Tags: 17th century, A History of News, Broadsides, Evan Petschke, Journalism, News, Thirty Years War, War Reporting
Tags: 17th century, A History of News, Broadsides, Evan Petschke, Journalism, News, Thirty Years War, War Reporting