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Reuters plans to expand investigative journalism efforts – Editors Weblog

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    Robert Eisenhart:

    "A year after Reuters began investigative reporting the news agency announced its plans to increase its reporting efforts as a result of consumer demands. Jon Pompeo from the Business Insider's The Wire, recently discussed Reuters investigative reporting efforts with Jim Impoco, the agency's investigative reporting editor.

    According to the agency's online news editor, Keith McCallister, reader's have been "eating [investigative journalism stories] up." McCallister stated that the investigative stories are read more frequently than any of the agency's other articles by a factor of 10."

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How News Organizations Hope to Benefit from Facebook’s New Features – Poynter Online

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    Mallary Jean Tenore interviews journalists at The Washington Post, ABC News and ESPN.com about "using Facebook's new features to find out how the integration of these tools fits into their overall social media strategies."

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LA Times adds e-commerce links, revises comment policy – Shaping the Future of the Newspaper Blog

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    "The ads will be placed by an e-commerce producer based at the Chicago Tribune, also owned by the Tribune Co., where the project has been in its testing phase for about six months. The e-commerce links will appear on health, image, food, travel, books, entertainment, sports sections and photo galleries. The green links will not appear in columns, news section articles and blogs, according to the memo on LAObserved.

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    Stanton also announced a revised comment policy wherein registered users of Facebook and other social networking sites can post comments on Times stories, articles and photos live, without moderation, but not on blogs. Users will pass through a word filter that blocks an extensive list of vulgarities, but there are chances inappropriate comments will be able slip past the filter, as the system is not foolproof."

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How should editors deal with complaints? – The Guardian

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    Ellie Levenson:

    "Yet if journalism is the first draft of history, even lifestyle journalism such as feminism quizzes, it is wrong to deny that an editor thought it was a good idea to publish something, even if they later change their mind. Removing articles not only shows a lack of support for contributors, but allows readers, even casual readers who come across an article by chance or tweet, to rewrite that history, and adds to the dangerous idea that editors are becoming surplus to requirements.

    While we may take on board readers' views for future issues, we must be prepared to stand by and explain our editorial decisions in the light of comment, with removal of content a last resort."

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Old media, new media and the UK election – John Naughton

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    John Naughton:

    “What TV did best, in this particular context, was to stage the debate: only a broadcast (few-to-many) medium could do that. But where it struggles is in attempting to add value to that broadcast event. To date, it has fallen back on the old, pre-Internet, staples (studio discussions with bigwigs, spinmeisters and columnists) leavened with a smattering of new tech tools (for example, second-by-second reaction tracking). But, actually, the value added is trivial compared with what’s available on the Web and in social media. And the reason for that is simple: TV is a push medium; and the intellectual bandwidth of push media is inherently very narrow. As Neil Postman observed many years ago (and James Fallows also showed in his lovely book, Breaking the News), you can’t do philosophy with smoke signals."

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Telegraph creates ‘digital operations unit’ – Press Gazette

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War journalists have a right to safety – David Schlesinger

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    War journalists have a right to safety – David Schlesinger

    David Schlesinger, editor in chief of Reuters:

    "When Wikileaks published the harrowing video of the deaths in Iraq of my colleagues Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his assistant and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, the world finally had the transparency it should have had about this tragedy.

    It was impossible for me to watch and not feel outrage and great sorrow – but this is not about trying to tell anyone else what to feel. This is about trying to find out exactly what happened and how to ensure it doesn't happen again.

    What I want from the Pentagon – and from all militaries – is simple: acknowledgment, transparency, accountability."

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After the volcano, how many other threats lurk? – Snowblog

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    After the volcano, how many other threats lurk? – Snowblog

    Jon Snow on journalism and 'the ash cloud':

    "As a journalist, as a parent, as a human, I felt hopelessly unprepared for this.

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    And now we wonder whether the right decisions are being made. Does the ash damage, as the most recent Met Office flights suggests? Or is it exaggerated, as KLM, Lufthansa, and BA test flights suggest?

    In short, does anyone know anything of which they speak? Or should we trust “them” when they say the safest option is to ban flights from Stockholm to Athens? And if we do trust “them”, should we trust them when they eventually tell us that flight does not prejudice our collective futures?

    Amid this collective ignorance, we journalists must impart facts to a fact hungry populace. I can remember no “natural event” to rival it. Far more is understood of earthquakes, tsunamis and the rest. Think of the money we spent on the “terror threat”. How much have we spent on the “volcanic ash” threat?"

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Martin Belam: "Journalism in the digital age: trends, tools and technologies"

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Google’s Cohen: Make Sure User Experience Comes First, Not Search Engine Visibility – Poynter Online

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    Google’s Cohen: Make Sure User Experience Comes First, Not Search Engine Visibility – Poynter Online

    Charles Yoo writing at Poynter Online:

    "Google News chief Josh Cohen says a key to success in online publishing is this: Focus on "creating a more engaging experience for the users so that they spend a longer period of time per visit."

    But, if Google cares so much about journalism, why not tweak PageRank and give more weight to news sites? (AP, which has been negotiating its contract with Google, reportedly wants its content ranked higher.)

    "One person's branded or 'high quality' information isn't necessarily going to align with another's. So having some human come in and say, 'Well, this is good journalism and that is bad journalism' isn't consistent with our approach of trying to show unbiased results," said Cohen, product manager for Google News, in a phone interview."

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