How should journalists admit their mistakes?
News flash: Journalists are human beings. They make mistakes. They get it wrong from time to time. Despite what your cranky uncle tells you at Thanksgiving dinner, most journalists don’t intentionally mislead their readers or viewers. They work hard to get things right. As hard as they try, mistakes are inevitable. Sometimes a source gets...
How should journalists admit their mistakes?
News flash: Journalists are human beings. They make mistakes. They get it wrong from time to time. Despite what your cranky uncle tells you at Thanksgiving dinner, most journalists don’t intentionally mislead their readers or viewers. They work hard to get things right. As hard as they try, mistakes are inevitable. Sometimes a source gets...
My latest Storify: Mexican Cartel Violence Reaches Ugly New Level
Storify, a social media curation tool, is pretty neat. It lets you to create a compendium of a particular story by bringing in tweets, news stories, Flickr photos and video and adding a bit of your own context. It has its pros and cons – concisely laid out by 10,000 Words back in May –...