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Egg Industry Website Gets Boost from Media During Salmonella Recall

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:49:03 +0000

Search Google for “egg safety” and the first link that comes up is for the Egg Safety Center . Seems like a logical place to look for information about the largest egg recall in the nation’s history. That’s what The Washington Post and a handful of other media outlets apparently thought when they provided a link to the website for their readers and viewers.

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Doctor: Papers aren’t ready for the tablet age

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:49:00 +0000

Newsonomics When Ken Doctor recently moved from San Jose, Calif., to the Santa Cruz area, he found that subscribing to the local paper was not exactly the same as actually getting it delivered. An original promise that it would start appearing on his doorstep “around Wednesday ” apparently was nonspecific about which particular Wednesday the carrier crew had in mind

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Mobile Media reading for Thu., Sept 9

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:48:57 +0000

> What Is 4G? (Business Insider) > For Advertisers, Location-Based Services “Blew Up Overnight” (ReadWriteWeb) > What Apples new App Store rules mean for news orgs (Nieman Journalism Lab) > Apple to Publish App Approval Guidelines, Opens Door to Developers ( AllThingsD) > Wireless call quality matters and that’s bad news for AT&T, good for Verizon, Sprint (ZDNet) > Pressure on iOS is rising in the race for smartphone success (telecoms.com) > Mobile Security Needs Rise With Smartphone Sales « (GigaOm)

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‘Pro-technology’ university blocks social media sites for a week

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:48:41 +0000

Inside Higher Ed “I think that the beauty of this [experiment] is it forces us to ask, ‘Why are we doing all this in the first place?’” says “Social Media Survival Guide” author Sherrie Madia , who will be at Harrisburg University next week to observe the social media blackout.

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Fox News says it won’t cover burning of Quran

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:40:33 +0000

Baltimore Sun | New York Times “We do not cover every flag burning that happens in this country. We don’t run every hostage tape,” Fox News senior veep Michael Clemente tells David Zurawik

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Slate’s Ledbetter named Reuters website editor

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:40:22 +0000

paidContent.org James Ledbetter will move to Reuters in October. He edited Slate’s Big Money site until it folded in July

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Texas Monthly, Los Angeles mag parent to continue as a public company

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:40:10 +0000

Indianapolis Star Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan ’s plan to take the company private was ruined when a key financier, Alden Global Capital, backed out of a buyout deal. Emmis, which owns radio stations and magazines, had spent five months trying to go private in a deal that would have been financed by Alden

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Facebook is most popular app across mobile platforms

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:35:25 +0000

Wall Street Journal Digits Noting a new study from Nielsen, Yukari Iwatani Kane writes that Facebook, games and weather continue to dominate among smart phone apps .

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Mississippi radio exec behind ‘Fresh Air’ brouhaha steps down

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:35:21 +0000

Jackson Free Press | Mississippi Public Broadcasting release Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s statement touts the operation’s success over the last year, but gives no details on why Judith Lewis (left) resigned. She dropped “Fresh Air” in July over a Louis C.K. interview, then brought it back — but at a much later hour — after being widely criticized

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PBS NewsHour launches Politics page

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:35:09 +0000

Press release PBS NewsHour Launches New Politics Page PBS NEWSHOUR POLITICS, to Provide One-Stop Shop for the Best of NewsHours Political Reporting and Analysis PBS NewsHour announces the launch of “PBS NewsHour Politics” , a one-stop web destination for national political news. The site goes live Thursday, September 9, just in time for the 2010 midterm election season, and features the considerable talents of the PBS NewsHour political team: senior correspondents Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff; political analysts David Brooks and Mark Shields; and PBS NewsHour political editor and analyst David Chalian, among others

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Weymouth quits Newsweek for Washington Post

Da7Fa — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:35:06 +0000

The Upshot Lally Weymouth — mother of Post publisher Katharine Weymouth — will join the paper as a senior associate editor later this month.

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Why one journalist cringes when Apple’s App Store is called the New Newsstand

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:34:55 +0000

Wordyard.com | Nieman Journalism Lab “I just don’t like the idea of my information diet being regulated by any company, let alone a company as tightly wound as Apple,” writes Scott Rosenberg . “Now Apple has made my unease explicit” with the release of its app development rules

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Apple publishes app store approval guidelines

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:03:19 +0000

Mashable After months of squabbling over app approvals and rejections, Apple today published the first list of guidelines to help developers navigate the often-frustrating process. The new “App Store Review Guidelines,” available on Apple’s website for registered developers , cover the basic criteria Apple uses to approve apps for distribution through the iTunes Store. The guidelines range from the obvious (“apps that crash will be rejected”) to the technical (“apps that browse the Web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript”).

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How to take better pictures with your smart phone

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:03:17 +0000

PC World It’s still easy to take bad pictures with smart phones, even those that capture up to 12-megapixel images.

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Are newspaper companies ready for a tablet world?

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:03:12 +0000

Newsonomics Ken Doctor asks that question after a frustrating experience of trying to get the paper delivered to his home. “It’s just a little driveway story, but we can connect it directly to the digital age.” || The latest from Poynter Online’s Mobile Media .

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‘The AP will not distribute images or audio that specifically show Qurans being burned’

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:03:01 +0000

Memo sent to AP staff From: Kent, Tom Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 11:53 AM Subject: Standards Center guidance: Planned Sept. 11 Quran burning Colleagues, As you know, a group known as the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., has announced that it intends to burn copies of the Quran on Sept.

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Favre complains about the ‘media frenzy world’

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:28:20 +0000

USAToday.com “Nothing goes untouched or un-talked about,” Brett Favre said on Sirius NFL Radio. “I quietly — I thought quietly — this offseason tried to make my decision [about returning to the Vikings]

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How to Report on Quran Burning and Other Hate Speech

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:28:15 +0000

By now it’s clear that the Rev. Terry Jones is a lone voice with a tiny following. On any given Sunday he has 50 worshipers, according to reporters who have attended his services.

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Washington Post loses veterans Connolly, Ahrens

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:28:11 +0000

Politico | Fishbowl DC Ceci Connolly tells colleagues that “after 13 great years on the National staff of the Washington Post I’ve decided to take on a new adventure, serving as a senior adviser at McKinsey & Co. (Sixth column item.) Frank Ahrens , who was with the Post for 18 years, is headed to South Korea do to PR for Hyundai Motor Co

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‘Without the media, Quran-burning would be little more than a grainy video on YouTube’

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:27:58 +0000

Orlando Sentinel “If a sad little man burns some Qurans in the woods, and the media aren’t there to film it, is it news?” asks Mike Thomas .