Seth Mnookin
Summary
Seth Mnookin (born April 27, 1972) is an American writer and journalist.As of 2006, he is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair (magazine); before that, he was a senior writer for Newsweek. He wrote the 2004 book Hard News : The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media. Mnookin was assigned the Jayson Blair story at Newsweek, and the research for that book grew into a broader examination of the troubles during the Howell Raines administration at the New York Times.During the 1990s, Mnookin struggled with overcoming heroin addiction, an experience he recounted in an article at Slate.com.
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Jonah Lehrer apologizes, makes everyone angrier
The Washington Post | The Atlantic Wire | BuzzFeed | The Week | New York | Slate | Flavorwire | Forbes Jonah Lehrer’s speech Tuesday at a Knight Foundation seminar “turned out to be significantly more about himself than … Read more.
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Fareed Zakaria: ‘People are piling on with every grudge or vendetta’
The Washington Post | The Daily Beast | The Panic Virus | The Washington Post | American Thinker | The Atlantic | The Huffington Post | The Boston Globe Fareed Zakaria’s Washington Post column has been suspended for a month. … Read more.
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5 ways Grist turned critics into fans after publishing controversial story
A study that suggests a link between food and autism is bound to kick up controversy.
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Syracuse announces Mirror Awards finalists
Syracuse’s S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has made its picks for the best coverage of media in 2011. The finalists’ work appeared in major publications like The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Washington Post, as well… Read more.
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Seth Mnookin: The Autism Vaccine Controversy and the Need for Responsible Science Journalism
Earlier this week, The Panic Virus, my book on the controversy over vaccines and autism, was released in paperback. While there haven't been many scientific advances in this particular issue since the hardcover edition was published -- the evidence supporting vaccines' paramount place in public health efforts and the total lack of corroboration supporting a causal connection between vaccines and autism remain as strong today as they were a year ago -- there have been new developments in the story.
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New York magazine gets traffic boost from daily news blogs
paidContent. org | Nieman Journalism Lab New York’s blogs covering entertainment, fashion, food and politics produced 10. 5 million unique users for September — the highest number in the site’s 13-year history, reports David Kaplan. Editor Adam Moss says his… Read more.
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Slate lays off four, including Jack Shafer
In the occasionally prickly world of media reporting, it’s hard to find anyone who does not love, respect and, yes, slightly fear Jack Shafer.
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The New York Times as comeback kid (The Cutline)
The Cutline - What better way for New York Times executives to celebrate the news that 281,000 subscribers are now paying to read the publication in digital form than with a magazine cover story about the paper of record's comeback? A comeback is indeed the premise of Seth Mnookin's feature in New York Magazine this week.
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Why Sulzberger keeps a dog-eared Time from 1977
New York magazine It reminds him how media critics can be so wrong. “This is the Time magazine piece on my father about how he was such an awful publisher that the newspaper wasn’t going to survive,” Times publisher… Read more.
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Do your readers want the truth?
In a compelling but slightly unnerving blog post today, Amy Gahran argues that journalists should accept the fact that people are, in many ways, psychologically wired to resist the truth. Fighting it is pointless, she says. Instead, “to help people understand how things really are,” journalists must find ways to “to accommodate—not deny—these psychological tendencies.
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