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Long believed to be a mythical archipelago populated exclusively by penguins and three elderly British wizarding couples who all have tea together on Sundays and exchange potion recipes, the Falkland Islands recently proved that it is a very real and newsworthy place when one of the local papers, Penguin News, took a passive aggressive swipe at Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner by posting an image of her that some subtle wordsmith had uploaded under the file name "perra." (For all you conscientious Spanish students who kept your noses out of the slang dictionary in high school, "perra" means "bitch.") Shockingly, readers clicked on the image and realized that Penguin had pulled a Fox News and responded with due outrage. More »
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Last night on Rock Center, Chelsea Clinton filed her first report as a full-fledged journalist. The daughter of President Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton played it safe: No bizarre crime; no far-flung warn-torn countries. Instead, Chelsea went to her home state of Arkansas and profiled Annette Dove, a woman from Pine Bluff, who runs a program for the city's poorest children. (There's just a small snippet of her report in the clip above; if you want to watch the full ten-minute segment, check out the video below.) More »
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A student newspaper at East Carolina University is in trouble for publishing unedited photos of a streaker in which you can clearly see his junk. They say they just wanted their fellow students to be able to see the, um, facts. More »
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The bosses at ABC News have made the noble decision to stop paying news subjects for stories. Though they never actually paid for interviews, just photo licensing rights. And they still may pay licensing fees in an "extraordinary circumstance." Well, at least they've decided to stay classy by instituting the new policy with "no public announcement or fanfare" — except for the self-congratulatory comments made to The Daily Beast. More »
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In the current issue of W, fashion stylist Nicola Formichetti is quoted relating a rather damning anecdote about his time at Dazed & Confused magazine. Formichetti says he once walked off the set of a shoot with the techno-world music fusion group Zohar. What had the band done to offend Nicola Formichetti? The stylist didn't like that they were "fat." More »
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When it comes to the military, says one former diplomat, the media are totally gay. Or girly. To wit: More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5802368&view=rss&microfeed=true Dorothy Parvaz, a reporter for Al Jazeera, hasn't been heard from since she arrived in Syria Friday. The Committee to Protect Journalists says there is "strong evidence" suggesting she was detained by authorities there. More »
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Kabul was a fishbowl and not conducive to actual dating, even though the foreign women were vastly outnumbered by the foreign men. Our attractiveness rate skyrocketed accordingly. A ten in Kabul became a five as soon as she walked off the plane in Dubai. We were Kabul Cute, we were Mission Pretty. But still, the men here rarely asked the women out on actual dates. Most of the attempts at mating involved bad tongue action and groping near or inside the bathrooms at L'Atmosphère, the French restaurant that had turned into Kabul's major watering hole. More »
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A 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll found that 30% of Americans think Justin Bieber will be in rehab by the time he's 30, which seems rather harsh since the 17-year-old has never even been spotted holding a beer or grinding with his manager. 60 Minutes, you should be ashamed of yourself. We expect this kind of catty speculation from Vanity Fair, but not you. More »
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The New York Times's public editor has responded to widespread complaints about the paper's coverage of a child being gang raped in Texas. The gist: "My assessment is that the outrage is understandable. The story dealt with a hideous crime but addressed concerns about the ruined lives of the perpetrators without acknowledging the obvious: concern for the victim." More »
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British mom Juliet Shaw was horrified when the Daily Mail turned her story of moving back to her rural hometown into a salacious tale of "Sex & the Country." So she took them to court. More »
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Whenever I see "best of" lists, award finalists and even table of contents, I immediately scan them to see how women fared. And I regularly complain to my husband about the lopsided male-to-female ratio in the bylines of highbrow magazines. More »
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Today Sarah Palin told Sean Hannity that because of her communications degree, she is qualified to "clean up" journalism today. So if she becomes president, will all news programs become unwatchably boring nature show/campaign commercials? More »
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Here's some insight into how your magazine puff-piece sausage is made: Lyss Stern, editor of New York Observer's Playground magazine, has been accused of offering to publish a positive review of her dentist to pay off a $45,000 bill. More »
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that college students love running around naked. And grownups love reading about it. More »
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Journalism professor Daniel Reimold interviewed college sex columnists to find out what they wrote about, what drove them, and why they were such "rock stars on campus." After the jump, see what he learned. More »
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Ex-USDA official Shirley Sherrod has said she will sue Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger whose creative cutting of one of her speeches caused her to lose her job. But can she win? More »
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In our line of work, we pride ourselves on breaking rules that need to be broken. But there's one rule we abide by, and that's in regards to your emails: They're on-record, unless explicitly stated otherwise from the get-go. Exciting! More »
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For the June issue of Elle, Elizabeth Kaye penned what is essentially a very long blind item. The short version? She went to the movies, developed a crush on an actor, set up an interview and subsequently bedded him. Repeatedly. More »
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In an editor's note, the Times explains that writer Lynn Hirschberg squished two quotes together, and a statement M.I.A. said was not made as presented. No word on the dis track or truffle fries. [Observer, Earlier, Earlier] More »
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First M.I.A. tweeted her interviewer's number, then a disgruntled subject put a blogger's contact info on Craigslist Casual Encounters. Is "crowdsourcing revenge" the new way of lashing back at unfavorable coverage? More »
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Journalist Joe McGinniss has moved in next door to Sarah Palin, and Glenn Beck, predictably, says he's "stalking" her. So is Sarah Palin really the victim of "harassment?" More »
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• Fox News released a statement today in response to LL Cool J's tweet about Sarah Palin and the upcoming "Real American Stories" series. They're removing the rapper's interview from the segment, but not without some snarky commentary: More »
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The anonymous filmmakers who captured the murder and death of Neda Agha-Soltan on camera during the protests in Iran last summer have received the George Polk Award for documenting what became an "iconic image of the Iranian resistance." [AP] More »
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"[Presidents] hate the press really...Everything they do is accountable to the American people and that's why we're there. We're the watchdogs. And I think everything belongs to the public domain practically, except for where the atomic arsenal is." [NPR] More »
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A few choice quotes from a hilarious list of some of the most obvious sentences ever immortalized in print: "Statistics show teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 25" and "Death is nation's top killer." All this and more: [11Points] More »
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Freelance writing has always been a stressful pursuit, but with fees dropping and some outlets offering, say, sailboat rides in lieu of payment, it's getting even harder out there for a scribe. More »
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White House press corps star Helen Thomas appeared on the Today Show this morning, ostensibly because she's Ann Curry's "inspiration" — but the always-awesome Thomas shows she's much more than that. More »
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Has everyone already forgotten about detained journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee? Advocacy group Reporters Without Borders thinks so. More »
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Hu Shuli, founding editor of news magazine Caijing, reports on stories other Chinese news outlets won't touch. But is she a pioneer of journalistic freedom, or a pragmatist whose true goal is to shore up government power? More »
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Hadley Freeman has a very smart piece in the Guardian today about a very disturbing phenomenon: female journalists publicly baring their depressing and ultimately unsuccessful battles with various forms of self-loathing. More »
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In non-depressing journalism news, released journalist Roxana Saberi will receive a Medal for Courage in Journalism from Northwestern University's journalism school. The medal "is a testament to Saberi's personal and journalistic resilience during an extremely difficult ordeal." [Editor & Publisher] More »
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Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi is slated to be freed today, after Iranian courts reduced her sentence for espionage from eight years to two years suspended. More »
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20 Ans>, a French Teen mag that got in trouble a few years back for (allegedly) using students as intellectual sweat shop labor, is being revived. [TheAmericanScene] More »
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TMZ will soon be giving Lindsey Graham the Lindsay Lohan treatment, as the company sics its "reporters" and camera crews on politicians. Because if there's one thing Washington needs, it's more frivolous reporting. More »
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Katharine Whitehorn's article in the BBC News Magazine is about problems for women in media and journalism — including oversexualization. So why is this the accompanying photo? More »
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• In response to the public outrage over Nadya Suleman's reproductive choices, now a California lawmaker has introduced a bill to regulate fertility clinics, which currently operate with minimal supervision from the state. • More »
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If you want to write a serious profile of the editor of the biggest new thing in the magazine world, don't start it,"Katie Grand has never met a handbag she didn't love." More »
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In 1960, Nancy Dickerson became the first female reporter on television. A new book by her son John, On Her Trail: My Mother, Nancy Dickerson gives a pioneer and a complex woman her due. [NPR] More »
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To try to come in like a lamb and go out like a lion, today Ana Marie Cox and I talk puppies, pedicures, Elvira, Bill Kristol, and the death of journalism. Do lions cry? More »
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