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Here’s a new take on the problem of people stealing images from the internet: Who added that dog to my image? As I understand it, somebody ‘borrowed’ Ben Canales’s photo, photoshopped a silhouette of a dog in the tent and posted it online. When Backpacker Magazine — which had legitimately …
Read More »How Rolling Stone can fix it
Back in January, a month after Rolling Stone’s disaster of a story came to light, I offered some free advice. This was soon after the magazine announced it would have Columbia Journalism School conduct an audit of the story and tell us what went wrong. The CJS report was released …
Read More »How to make police videos a matter of public record
For police body-cam videos to do any good, they have to be seen by the public. That much seems obvious from the many examples floating around the internet, and the results seen by police departments that have started using them. https://youtu.be/HnOBfCmled8 But, as I’ve said before, there are plenty of …
Read More »What the Nevada prison didn’t tell us.
Everything. Sorry, that’s not fair. The Nevada Department of Corrections did, in fact, provide an entire paragraph to the press on inmate Carlos Perez in November. Name. Age. Number. The fact that he was dead. The news release ends with this statement: “There is an ongoing investigation and no further …
Read More »Even cowgirls get the news
from RANGE magazine: National recognition for western publisher Caroline “CJ” Hadley, publisher of RANGE magazine, has been nominated to the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. Her acceptance as a candidate is the first step in the painstaking process of selecting the four or five women who will be honored at …
Read More »Oldest paper is also the newest
Elizabeth Thompson, editor of the Territorial Enterprise, addresses the crowd inside Adele’s during the launch party Thursday evening. MacAvoy Layne readies for his welcome as Mark Twain. It’s always news when a newspaper launches, and the resurrection of the Territorial Enterprise has plenty of story lines. There’s the history itself, …
Read More »Bots can spell, but can they write?
Reporters are among the last remnants of old-time newspapering that haven’t been replaced by technology yet. But they’re working on it. When we moved from typewriters to computers, it was a great thing for the newsroom. Not so good for the paste-up department, where pink slips were handed out. (At …
Read More »Bringing police body-cams into sharper focus
Testimony on two bills requiring the use of body-cams by Nevada police departments showed how much of the devil is going to be in the details. One bill, AB162, comes from Assemblyman Harvey Munford. The other, SB111, from Sen. Aaron Ford would apply only to Clark and Washoe counties, but …
Read More »SB28, the anti-public records bill, actually got worse
The Nevada League of Cities and Municipalities has doubled down on its attempt to make public records more expensive and less accessible in an amendment proposed Wednesday during the first hearing on SB28. As I described earlier, the bill attempts to change fundamentally Nevada’s public records law by greatly expanding …
Read More »I tried to cancel Alley Oop
I’m the guy who tried to cancel Alley Oop. So when I read on Jim Romenesko’s blog about an 8-year-old boy who called an editor a ‘s—hole’ for canceling several of his favorite newspaper comics, I could relate. Alley Oop was created as a comic strip in 1932. When I …
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