Photojournalist Carlos Miller says he's learned that 11 hours before he was arrested during the Occupy Miami eviction in January, the Miami-Dade Police Homeland Security Bureau sent an email to various police officers revealing that he would be documenting the action, something they learned through his Facebook page.
During a week in which the Post was shut out of the Pulitzers and Guild journalists had to decide whether to accept or reject the paper's latest buyout offer, ombudsman Pexton says the worst news may be resignation of a young blogger and what it says about Post's ability to cultivate future talent.
Florida Congressman Allen West's declaration last week that as many as 81 members of the U.S. House are communists was the final blow to "facts," reporter Rex Huppke writes in their "obituary": "Facts held on for several days after that assault — brought on without a scrap of evidence or reason — before expiring peacefully at its home in a high school physics book. Facts was 2,372."
The largest circulation daily newspaper in America, USA Today, reports that two of its journalists were targeted by a campaign to discredit their work shortly after publishing pieces about a Pentagon propaganda operation.
The biggest news about the Associated Press this week isn't its Pulitzer, Haberman writes. It's this: "From now on, the A.P. Stylebook — a bible of usage for multitudes of writers, editors and other species of word nerds — will recognize the legitimacy of the adverb 'hopefully' as it is heard in everyday language, even if it makes a grammar stickler’s back teeth ache."
From newspapers big and small, Guild journalists are once again among the top winners of SPJ’s Sigma Delta Chi Awards. They include Matt Lakin of the Knoxville Guild for his impressive reporting on prescription drug abuse, as shown in photo.
First-place winners include Giuld member and Providence Journal copy editor Peter Donahue, who wrote such eye-catching headlines in 2011 as, "Watching Will and Kate tie the Windsor knot." A colorful pdf showcasing all the winners is here.
News organizations are getting more frequent requests to remove old content, as people quoted or featured in past articles worry about what will turn up online when employers, schools and others search.
Florida State Attorney and special prosecutor Angela Corey praised journalists during Wednesday's news conference in which she announced that George Zimmerman has been charged with murder in the second degree for the February 26th shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. “It is regrettable that so many facts and details got released and misconstrued,” Corey said “But we hope that — and the media has helped, toning it down a lot and making sure that people understand Florida law and the process. And we hope that people will continue to do that.”
