WP, CBSNews, Newsweek add comments on stories
December 11, 2006
washingtonpost.com, CBSNews.com and Newsweek.com have all added comments to their news story pages in the past few months.
News Sniffer site monitors BBC News edits
November 2, 2006
A new site called News Sniffer is monitoring the BBC News site and noting when it removes reader comment posts, as well as when it and several other sites edit news stories.
NYT updates anonymous source policy
August 10, 2006
The New York Times has shifted toward a more flexible — and more realistic — approach to how it explains to readers why it is using an anonymous source. Details here.
Editors’ blogs on mining story mistake
January 4, 2006
• “How the Rocky ended up with different front-page headlines,” Editor’s blog, Rocky Mountain News
• “A Night (And Morning) of Misinformation,” CBS News’ PublicEye blog
• “The Mine Story: From Good News to Bad,” The Editor’s Blog, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
New York Times memo on blogging
December 7, 2005
The New York Times has launched a new blog as part of its new Red Carpet entertainment awards site and says more are in the works. In that context, Deputy Managing Editor Jonathan Landman sent a memo to the staff about The New York Times approach to blogging. “A blog is nothing more than a piece of technology… We?ll use the technology our way.”
Here is the full New York Times memo on blogging:
Esquire article edited via Wiki
September 28, 2005
Esquire editor A.J. Jacobs invited Wikipedia users to edit an article online that will appear in an upcoming issue of the magazine, as an experiment. Wikipedia users made more than 500 edits to the article before it was frozen.
CBS publishes outside voices
September 20, 2005
Each week CBSNews.com’s new blog, Public Eye, is inviting someone from the outside to weigh in with their thoughts about CBS News and the media at large. In the first “Outside Voices” Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at New York University and author of the widely-read blog Pressthink, reflects on the now infamous report from a year ago, when “60 Minutes: Wednesday” aired its segment on President Bush’s National Guard service.
CBS News launches Public Eye
September 13, 2005
CBS News has launched Public Eye, an unprecendented effort to bring transparency to the editorial operations of a major news network, and part of CBS News’ attempt to regain the trust of the public after last year’s “Memogate.”
Public Eye is built around a blog format, in which the journalists who make the editorial decisions at CBS News and CBSNews.com will now be asked to explain and answer questions about those decisions in a public forum.
Why Brian Williams’ blog is striking
August 25, 2005
Brian Williams dispatches for a blog he calls “The Daily Nightly” are striking in two main respects, The New York Times’ says.
The P-I’s Virtual Editorial Board
August 16, 2005
Here’s an interesting experiment in using the Internet to involve readers: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has launched a “Virtual Editorial Board,” using its Web site to incorporate users opinions into the newspaper’s editorials — before they are published!