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Time: Fareed Zakaria’s plagiarism was unintentional, isolated incident
Time magazine has finished reviewing Fareed Zakaria’s columns after he lifted a few lines from a New Yorker story. The magazine is “entirely satisfied that the language in question in his recent column was an unintentional error and an isolated… Read more.
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Mark Thompson’s big unknown as NYT CEO: Revenue-building
paidContent | The Daily Beast | GigaOM | Newsonomics | Poynter One of the biggest questions about the selection of Mark Thompson as CEO of The New York Times Co. is how he’ll help the company make… Read more.
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YMCA executive named new chief fundraiser for NPR
NPR Monique Hanson will start as NPR’s chief development officer in October, filling the last position left vacant since a turbulent period in late 2010 and early 2011, when three of the nonprofit’s top executives left.
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Live chat Thursday: How social media can improve your reporting on protest movements
Los Angeles Times reporter Kate Linthicum has spent her share of time at Occupy protests, but she’s found social media to be essential in tracking the movement online.
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Game changer: AP Stylebook moves faster than Merriam-Webster as linguistic authority
Merriam-Webster | Associated Press | The Atlantic Wire Merriam-Webster has officially sanctioned a bunch of words by adding them to the dictionary, hereby removing most of the fun of saying things like “F-bomb” and “sexting. ” Merriam-Webster paints this… Read more.
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Fareed Zakaria says many journalists don’t attribute quotations
The Atlantic After Fareed Zakaria apologized last week for plagiarizing a couple of passages from a New Yorker article, Jeffrey Goldberg was reminded of an incident in 2009 in which Zakaria had used quotations from two of Goldberg’s… Read more.
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Mobile Web, apps won the Olympics
paidContent | The New York Times | The Times of London Sixty percent of traffic to the official London2012. com website and apps came from mobile devices, according to Alex Balfour, the head of new media for the London Organizing Committee. … Read more.
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Portland Press Herald to pay woman for using photograph without permission
The Portland Press Herald will pay a woman $400 for publishing a photograph from her Flickr account after she complained that she hadn’t given permission or been contacted beforehand.
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Olympics show YouTube’s potential as live-streaming platform
Mashable | The Hollywood Reporter The Olympics shows how YouTube is shifting from an on-demand video platform to one aimed at live-streaming newsworthy events, reports Mashable’s Sam Laird. About 2. 7 million people turned to YouTube to see the… Read more.
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TechCrunch: Gannett buying Facebook advertising firm BLiNQ Media
TechCrunch | Gannett Blog TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden and Josh Constine report that Gannett will pay “up to $92 million” for the Facebook advertising company firm BLiNQ Media, with $23 million coming upfront and the rest over the next few… Read more.
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