Syndicated news goes A La CarteCNN’s wire service, CNN Wire, is now offering newspaper editors the chance to buy individual stories for syndication — at $199 a pop. It’s like ordering off a menu instead of hiring a personal chef.
Churnalism
Facing some ugly truths about modern journalism
10,000 Words looks at 10 unfortunate realities of the modern media industry, like the unfortunate reliance on wire copy, the slipping standards of subediting, and the fact that no-one has the answers to fix it.
Pauline Hanson and me: a fake story
Okay, time for a confession, writes Jonathan Green.
Google lays in the boot over carbon footprint
If there’s one thing worse than journalists simply regurgitating figures from a press release, it’s journalists trying to do figures themselves, writes Ruth Brown.
The carbon footprint of lazy journalism
Think of all the carbon emissions that are saved by lazy editors and journalists who don’t bother fact-checking PR, writes Ruth Brown.
Infanticide in PNG: don’t let truth stand in the way of a good story
Media outlets around the world recycled a story from PNG last week about women murdering their male babies to end a tribal war. What a shame it wasn’t true, writes Eleri Harris.
The Atlantic / Thursday, 10 September 2009
How old video footage dug up by one man of then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor ended up running unquestioned on every major news network across the US, unfairly shaping the entire nation’s public perception of the judge. A case study in churnalism.