The Daily isn’t the only media entity celebrating its first birthday this month: Atlantic Wire editor Gabriel Snyder is also commemorating his first year at the online news aggregator, which brought in a record-breaking 3.6 million unique visitors in January. With a newly expanded staff, the site is now setting its sights beyond aggregation and toward a 24/7 publishing schedule with more original reporting. The Atlantic Wire is one of The Atlantic‘s three digital properties, alongside TheAtlant...  show all text

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How far should The Times go when seeking out interviews with those confined to hospital beds? The public editor takes a look at some examples.

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The Susan G. Komen foundation has reversed a controversial decision not to renew funding for Planned Parenthood projects for breast cancer screenings, the group said in a statement Friday. "We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives," the group said. "We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while main...  show all text

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If it’s so much better to give than receive, why are some Facebook users sitting on their hands? The Pew Internet and American Life Project released a new report today that suggests Facebook users are not a uniformly active bunch. According to the study, the typical Facebook user gets more friend requests than she sends, is tagged in photos more than she tags, and has posts Liked more often than she Likes herself. But wait — shouldn’t it all even out? After all, every friend request has a reque...  show all text

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“I started hearing these rumors three weeks ago, and then, today, the Bay Citizen scooped itself, posting the Phil Bronstein would likely come in as CEO for the troubled Bay Citizen—and help it merge with California Watch and The Center for Investigative Reporting (disclosure: I consulted for CIR for a year). This is one of those moves that is not only fiscally sound (merging two organizations each having annual budgets of over $3.4MM would surely result in economies of scale), it’s editorially...  show all text

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1. Intended word: "GPS," not "GSPOT." Click here to view this gallery. In December, millions of readers laughed along with Damn You Auto Correct‘s funniest entries of the year, based on Facebook shares, tweets, comments and page views. Get ready to laugh again. Jillian Madison — who founded the popular blog after she once texted a guy friend to see if he wanted to come over for “fellatio” and she meant “gelato” — has now posted her favorite all-time picks. Not surprisingly, her picks are hi...  show all text

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UPDATED: With link to second job posting. Do you want to ...   Inform the citizens of New York?   Help people understand their world?   Root out corruption?   Make a mark on society?   Make awesome online applications and visualizations fast?   ( Like this election map, this investigative report and this candidate game? ) WNYC is building a Data News Team to make high-impact visualizations and interactives, and to help WNYC reporters and producers present the facts, expose corruption and expl...  show all text

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This week marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl at the hands of militants in Pakistan. Read articles from the last decade that celebrate his work, life and legacy.

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Reports that more than 150,000 jobs have been created can be seen as good news for President Obama's re-election prospects.

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Twitter spells out its censorship policy: Just a couple of weeks after the SOPA/PIPA fight came to a head, Twitter pushed the discussion about online censorship a bit further when it announced late last week a new policy for censoring tweets: When Twitter gets requests from governments to block tweets containing what they deem illegal speech, its new policy will allow it to block those tweets only to readers within that country, leaving it visible to the rest of the world. Twitter will send not...  show all text

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For those working for the BBC Persian service, interference and harassment from the Iranian authorities has become a challenging fact of life. I am hugely proud of how they deal with that relentless pressure, and their unswerving commitment to delivering high quality, impartial journalism. They arguably have the most difficult jobs in the BBC. They carry them out with unstinting dedication and in the knowledge that their work makes a critical difference to the lives of millions who crave access...  show all text

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Antonio Bolfo was bored, so he became a police officer. To relieve the stress of patrolling South Bronx housing projects, he took a camera on the job. It led to a new career.

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I'm leaving the Huffington Post to take on a challenge that's so different from anything I've ever done, I want to start breathing into a paper bag just thinking about it. I need to get back to learning and challenging myself - and I think this next step is just what I need to grow as a journalist. [...]

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People are more likely to give in to urge to tweet or check email than other cravings, say US researchers Tweeting or checking emails may be harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, according to researchers who tried to measure how well people could resist their desires. They even claim that while sleep and sex may be stronger urges, people are more likely to give in to longings or cravings to use social and other media. A team headed by Wilhelm Hofmann of Chicago University's Booth Busine...  show all text

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In early 2009, San Franciscans faced the very real prospect that theirs could be the first major American city without ...

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NUJ members 'overwhelmingly' back action over below-inflation pay offer of 1.75% Journalists at Thomson Reuters have voted to strike – for the first time at the news agency in more than 25 years – over a below-inflation pay offer. The National Union of Journalists chapel at the company voted "overwhelmingly" for a 48-hour strike next week, to coincide with the release of Thomson Reuters' full-year financial results. "We tried very hard to reach a settlement with management but the company's ref...  show all text

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The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation reversed its decision to cut financing for breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood affiliates and apologized to the American people for what it said was casting doubt on its "commitment to our mission of saving women's lives."

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Here’s the press release that just dropped from the Komen Foundation We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives. The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parent...  show all text

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The identity behind "Glenbrook LLC," which made a $250,000 donation to the pro-Romney "super PAC" last August, is still unknown. Can you help?

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I'm relieved to be out of my social media editor roles because I've been worrying about my future and the future of the social media role at news organizations, for lots of reasons. [...]

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UPDATE, 12:32 p.m.Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, said during a Friday conference call that her understanding of Komen's announcement is that it's a complete reversal of the decision to bar funding to her group. "It's quite clear that Planned Parenthood and our health centers and our doctors are eligible now to work with Komen foundation again," Richards said, before adding that she hasn't actually talked to Komen leaders about the decision. "I certainly take them at their wor...  show all text

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NEW YORK—Shocked and saddened witnesses at the Huffington Post's news-aggregation facility have confirmed that employee Henry Evers, 25, died Wednesday ...

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