A hub of information posted by Gannett journalists attending IRE 2013 in San Antonio, TX, June 20th - 23rd.
I’ll be among the journos sending dispatches from IRE 2013 Conference in San Antonio, starting Thursday. Follow along on Tumblr here or with the hashtag #IRE13
Ernest Hemingway
Truer words were never spoken. If you’re a sleep enthusiast like Ernest, you can learn more about it in our sleep episode.
(via wnycradiolab)
Gary Pruitt, President and CEO of the Associated Press, in a letter (PDF) to US Attorney General Eric Holder.
The News, via the AP:
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.
In all, the government seized those records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices whose phone records were targeted on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.
As Declan McCullagh, chief political correspondent for CNET, points out, 28 CFR 50.10 (the Code of Federal Regulations) includes the following:
No subpoena may be issued to any member of the news media or for the telephone toll records of any member of the news media without the express authorization of the Attorney General… Failure to obtain the prior approval of the Attorney General may constitute grounds for an administrative reprimand or other appropriate disciplinary action.
So, evidently, Eric Holder gave his express authorization for monitoring of the Associated Press’ phone records. Besides the initial WTF, we wait to hear how this is spun to justify the intrusion.
(via futurejournalismproject)
This is alarming.
(via poynterinstitute)During New York’s ’80s and ’90s crack epedemic, a flashy detective who “imagined himself a crusader who created his own rules” and his star witness, a crack addicted prostitute who seemed to constantly be at the scene of homicides, sent dozens of men to prison for life. Now, they are under investigation.
N.R. Kleinfield | New York Times | May 2013
Virginia does not violate the U.S. Constitution when it bars out-of-state residents from accessing state records through its Freedom of Information Act, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
The NBA’s Jason Collins has now become the first openly gay athlete playing in one of the four major sports in North America.
Read more behind the monumental ’Sports Illustrated’ cover story.
(via theatlantic)Cool map visualization via NPR.
Gary Greenberg on new Psychiatric Association guidelines and the enormous impact on the public health: http://nyr.kr/17nwyaL
