Category Archives: Journalism

Brits take thirteenth place in women’s downhill

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 18, 2010

Twickenham’s Chemmy Alcott (above, with her bosom buddy silver medalist Julia Mancuso) finished just twelve places out of first in the women’s downhill skiing competition in Whistler yesterday. That tidbit along with some riveting information on the curling competition typifies the London Times sports coverage of Vancouver 2010. Otherwise their coverage has been a solid [...]

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Legal beagles

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 1, 2010

Nose to the ground, sniffing out truth, justice, and freedom of information, the Berkman Center announced today that its Online Media Legal Network (OMLN) is “…partnering with the National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC) to assist with freedom of information lawsuits and to provide online journalists with FOI information and assistance.” The OMLN serves “online [...]

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Whole lotta lynx

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 31, 2009

PhD Comix Kulcha Round-up Betsy Blair, comsymp Federal government muffs another one Whining Joe Klein Invisible Inkling Prison Health and Our Community: A Public Health Investigation Pew, that decade STANK Steve Outing, Welcome to Elba Jim Long on the Verge of Something New John Siracusa, the Ars in Arstechnica Community Supported Journalism Public Knowledge Progressive [...]

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Web versioning

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 15, 2009

Ethan Zuckerman refers to Dan Gillmor’s slow news advocacy here, and he extends the concept to journalism criticism, the stories about stories that critics write. His post traces the update history of a recent story about a story that dominated the news cycle for a few days last week. He says, “What I’d love to [...]

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Slow news

By Frank Paynter | Published: November 14, 2009

First there was slow food and then came slow money. Dan Gillmor proposes that we add slow news to the list. I’ve long been a slow news advocate. Partly this is because I can’t keep up. I’ll admit it. The Amazon (it’s a river–look it up) of information that comes my way every day threatens [...]

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Walter Cronkite

By Frank Paynter | Published: July 17, 2009

What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times… and you were there. – Walter Cronkite, narrating He informed my youth with You Are There (1953 — 1957). I saw every show. He informed my adulthood, reporting on six US Presidents from Kennedy [...]

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All swine flu, all the time

By Frank Paynter | Published: April 27, 2009

First let’s check Fox News. Hmmm. Geraldo Rivera is there reporting on the outbreak at the high school in Queens. A search on twitter shows thousands of tweets… sixty-nine more swine flu tweets came in while I wrote the preceding sentence. Oops, now it’s 179 tweets since I looked. This is like drinking from a [...]

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Two more newspapers reject McCain, endorse Obama

By Frank Paynter | Published: October 26, 2008

The Hartford Courant, the oldest continuously published newspaper in the nation, broke a 244 year tradition and endorsed Obama today. This is only their second endorsement of a Democrat in their history. The first was Bill Clinton. The Courant says, The times cry out for a leader of Mr. Obama’s mettle. Americans have suffered through [...]

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