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Trailer Mash 05-18-12
The trailer for Battleship—or "Rihanna Movie," as YouTube helpfully co-titles it—is the event horizon of the black hole of super-vacuity that exists within the black hole of stupidity that most movie trailers already inhabit. Watching it is like spectating Buzkashi, the Afghan version of polo played with a headless goat carcass rather than a ball.
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Eric Newton: Journalism education suffers from ‘symphony of slowness’
Knight Foundation | Common Sense Journalism
Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president at Knight, didn’t hold back in his criticism of the state of journalism education in a speech last week. Although he praised a handful of schools… Read more
Finalists Await Decision in Southwest Review
Don Graham’s take from Facebook IPO: $40+ million so far
Reporter fired after attributing lack of softball stats to ‘coach’s bullshit and laziness’
Reporter fired after attributing lack of softball stats to ‘coach’s bullshit and laziness’
Freedom Communications sells Texas and Midwest properties
Odessa American | Orange County Register | Freedom
Freedom Communications announced the sale today of its Texas newspapers, including The Brownsville Herald, The Odessa American and The Harlingen Valley Morning Star. This follows news Thursday that it… Read more
Facebook Share Rise, Fall, Rise in Early IPO Trading
The best questions from Jeopardy’s journalism ‘Power Players’ this week
It’s Jeopardy’s “Power Players” week, and J! Archive (which is the type of site that will make you believe in the Internet all over again) has clever interactive recaps of Monday through Wednesday’s shows. Chris Matthews correctly identified… Read more
Ad of the Day: Nike
Nike had a huge advertising success at the 2010 World Cup with "Write the Future," the epic soccer spot that won the 2011 Film Grand Prix at Cannes for Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam.
Facebook IPO may force journalists to consider their role in the social network’s growth
CNN | GigaOm | BuzzFeed | The Atlantic
Facebook’s IPO just created a lot of billionaires. Probably not that many of them work in journalism. But journalists, Kristie Lu Stout argues, create part of… Read more
SPJ regional director in Oklahoma resigns after chapter funds go missing
This Land Press | The Oklahoman
Scott Cooper, the treasurer-secretary for the Society for Professional Journalists’ Oklahoma chapter and director of its Region 8, resigned Wednesday after an inquiry into $40,000 that was missing from the organization’s checking account.… Read more
Warren Buffett not yet done buying newspapers
Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway is buying 63 Media General newspapers, told the Omaha World-Herald, which he also owns, he’s not planning any future newspaper purchases, but he’d consider them:
“There aren’t a lot of buyers in
Survey: 52% of media professionals abandon websites when they hit a paywall
DigiCareers | eMarketer
A new survey found that more than half of media professionals polled immediately leave a website after encountering a paywall. One-quarter said they were unlikely to return to the site, and 63 percent said that… Read more
Perky 'Trudy' Drives True Lemon Push
Information Diet: David X. Cohen
Larry King's Ora.tv Gearing Up For Summer Launch
Look at these first-graders reciting the 5 Ws
PBS NewsHour
NewsHour’s April Brown describes what she found when she went to a first-grade class at Melrose Elementary School, a journalism magnet school in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The question “What is a reporter?” was written on the white
Ford Foundation gives Los Angeles Times $1 million grant
Los Angeles Times
In an unusual arrangement between a foundation and a for-profit company, the Los Angeles Times announced today that it is receiving a $1 million grant from the Ford Foundation with the express purpose of widening its coverage… Read more