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Tracking Reporters

Tracking Reporters 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
There is some great though on the issue of tracking reporters during the campaign. There is a real need for accountability to rebuild trust in our political system. I am inclined to leave pure media criticism to the pros and...

The CIA Agent Flap: FBI Asks for
Reporters to Talk. White House Asked to
Release Reporters from Confidentiality
Understanding About WH Treasongate Leak

The CIA Agent Flap: FBI Asks for
Reporters to Talk. White House Asked to
Release Reporters from Confidentiality
Understanding About WH Treasongate Leak 01/03/2004 08:18 AM
this is something .. Time Magazine .. Time

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Broadlook--#1 Applicant Tracking
Software Solution--Empowers your
Applicant Tracking Software and fills
your Applicant Tracking Software with
applicant tracking relationships.

Broadlook--#1 Applicant Tracking
Software Solution--Empowers your
Applicant Tracking Software and fills
your Applicant Tracking Software with
applicant tracking relationships. 07/16/2004 03:14 AM
Whichever applicant tracking software your company uses, you need to look at the Broadlook Suite of Software which should seamlessly integrate with whichever applicant tracking software you are using. BroadLook is an integrated set of applications designed to harness the Internet as a powerful real-time data source--the data from which can be exported into your applicant tracking software. [PRWEB Jul 16, 2004]

Clockware Releases Version 4.4 -
Significantly Enhances Timesheet Styles,
Expands Status Tracking, Employee and
Organizational Data Tracking Features

Clockware Releases Version 4.4 -
Significantly Enhances Timesheet Styles,
Expands Status Tracking, Employee and
Organizational Data Tracking Features 04/05/2005 04:50 AM
Clockware announces its seventh major release in eight years, adding enhancements to its enterprise timesheet software, time tracking, leave and exception time tracking and other key timesheet system features. [PRWEB Apr 5, 2005]

Tracking Blogs, Tracking Packages --
What's The Difference?

Tracking Blogs, Tracking Packages --
What's The Difference? 03/31/2005 09:04 AM
Extreme Tech Mar 31 2005 1:16PM GMT

Web Tracking of Billable Time Improves
Productivity and Bottom Line/New Kyebot
Time Tracking and Billing Software
Announces Availability

Web Tracking of Billable Time Improves
Productivity and Bottom Line/New Kyebot
Time Tracking and Billing Software
Announces Availability 09/13/2004 02:58 AM
New Web-based time and billing application simplifies administrative tasks associated with tracking billable hours and virtually eliminates problems with under-billing. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Tracking the newsroom bug-tracking idea

Tracking the newsroom bug-tracking idea 02/01/2005 09:42 PM
I want to return to the idea I floated a few days ago about bug-trackin g software for newsrooms. The comment s response ranged from "neat idea!" to "it'll never work," so let's look it over again.

What I imagined was something similar to the way open-source software development projects manage bug reports. When people file bugs against such a project, they go to a publicly available online resource and enter a form that says "Here's a problem I encountered," and provide details. Different projects follow different organizational structures, but generally speaking, other developers will review the bug and try to classify it: Sometimes they'll say it's a duplicate and point to previous entries in the database that dealt with it; sometimes they'll say it's a simple problem and go fix it right away and close it out; sometimes they'll say it's a big one and leave it open to be dealt with in the future; sometimes they'll say it's a "known bug" that for one reason or another is never going to be fixed; sometimes they'll say it's not a bug at all.

For a newsroom, the idea is to provide a structure and a channel for reader dissatisfaction. You wouldn't have to follow the software model detail for detail, but the general outline could be valuable: Provide a form for readers to enter complaints, one that requires them to present details. Post the complaint publicly as soon as it's entered, and record the publication's response in a reasonably prompt fashion -- anything from "Thanks, we fixed the spelling on that name" to "we chose the phrase 'private accounts' because it is an accurate description of the president's proposal, and the label was in wide use by supporters of the idea until very recently, so we do not plan to stop using the term." The explanation is on record, and if other readers keep filing the same complaint they can simply be pointed back to the original answer. Spam? Just delete it. Letters to the editor that don't have a specific complaint? Re-route them to the letters box.

The most common objection seems to be, forget it -- this will become another free-for-all for political partisans to work out their agendas, another wide-open Internet forum that will degenerate into circular debate. Such forums already exist, to be sure; the point of a bug tracker is to avoid that outcome by choosing a narrower environment for the feedback that allows you to quickly aggregate and dispose of duplicate complaints, and that provides a public record of responsiveness and accountability. If 500 people all holler that you shouldn't say "private accounts," you can answer them once and be done with it -- but you can point each individual complaint back to your explanation, so those people understand that you actually heard them and offered some sort of response. There's a big difference between the silence of no response and "no, we're not doing that, here's why." The latter won't satisfy everyone, but it at least acknowledges that there's been an exchange on the subject.

Ross Karchner proposed a somewhat different model based on wiki practices: "1) A publically viewable changelog, where you can see, in detail, the changes made to an article. 2) A place where the author(s) and editor(s) can discuss the changes needed and made. This is also in public view..." I'm not sure whether Ross means the changelog and the writer/editor dialogue to commence from the first time the writer composed a draft, or only upon publication. The former is, I think, too wide open -- even a blogger has the right to compose a posting and revise it in private before choosing to push the "publish" button. The latter is fine -- but since most reputable publications rarely change articles once they're published, and note the changes as corrections if they do, then it's just codifying an existing practice in slightly different ways.

As for the idea of trying all this out at Salon: Who knows, I might well advocate it, though my current on-leave status doesn't put me in a good spot to work on it. But Salon has been dealing with the back-and-forth of online criticism of our work for 9 years plus. Whatever problems we may suffer from, a failure of responsiveness to online feedback is not, I think, one of them, and we have a pretty sturdy process for reviewing complaints fast and correcting them where needed.

I think this approach would pay off best for a newsroom that is having difficulty convincing readers that the publication is actually listening to them. If you showed the public that you were recording and responding to the issues they raised -- whether you end up publishing a correction or simply saying, "We don't think that needs correcting, and here's why" -- I think you'd start to bank some confidence and trust pretty quickly.

I'm not suggesting that this idea is the single, one-fix-solves-all-problems answer to the ills of journalism today. It's a pragmatic, you-could-do-it-real-soon suggestion for beginning to deal with professional journalism's biggest problem: the public's loss of trust, which begins with the sense that media companies are big institutions that pay no attention to their own mistakes.

Reporters in chains

Reporters in chains 06/15/2004 08:39 AM
Under Homeland Security orders, journalists from England, Sweden, Holland and other friendly countries are being detained at U.S. airports, strip-searched and deported.

When Reporters Are Fans Too

When Reporters Are Fans Too 04/06/2005 09:42 AM
Matt Manochio, frequent visitor and huge Star Wars fan and reporter for the Daily Record in New Jersey, sent along an article published about his personal Midnight Madness fun. You can read it here.

Let's Pretend Our Reporters Don't Think
At All!

Let's Pretend Our Reporters Don't Think
At All! 08/31/2004 02:30 AM
Scott Rosenberg: I never understood the sort of journalistic code of ethics -- now prevalent in many American newsrooms, particularly those owned by big corporate chains -- that requires newspeople to pretend that they are not human.

US reporters fined over spy case

US reporters fined over spy case 08/19/2004 12:59 PM
Five US journalists are fined for refusing to identify sources behind stories alleging nuclear espionage.

TV Reporters Favor Macs

TV Reporters Favor Macs 03/13/2003 09:58 PM

Wen Ho Lee Reporters Held in Contempt
(AP)

Wen Ho Lee Reporters Held in Contempt
(AP) 08/18/2004 05:03 PM
AP - A federal judge held five reporters in contempt Wednesday for refusing to identify their sources for stories about Wen Ho Lee, a former nuclear weapons scientist once suspected of spying, a lawyer said Wednesday.

Here We Go Again: Bad Reporters and Good
Rumors

Here We Go Again: Bad Reporters and Good
Rumors 06/06/2005 12:15 AM

I can always tell when the news machine is slowing down. It's kind of like there's sugar at the bottom of the Mac Web's gas tank, really. When their news tank gets low they start to pick up the same old crap at the bottom and try to use it to fuel the fires. What I underestimated was the level at which they pick that crap up. It seems that Mac reporters are very, very easily bored.

What I mean is that there's a good deal of news to actually cover, what with Tiger coming out to stellar reviews in spite of it being alpha-quality crap that has more bugs than the Temple of Doom. That, alone, should be decent fodder. If not that, then the sudden appearance of music videos in iTunes, or the supposed Babblecasting capabilities that 4.9 is said to bring in the future. They could bring up a whole lot of topics and keep them in the forefront with new ideas and new spin. When that runs out they could easily be useful and start talking about tips and how to get the most of the computer (which is the only reason I still have a Mac World subscription, really). No, they babble about the same crappy rumors to keep the hit counter spinning for the Ad Lords.

I mean, some of us just don't post anything for months when there's no news and nothing else comes to mind. It's not hard, really; you just walk away and go do something with your life for a while. It seems that some others just can't seem to handle that concept.

So, what crap lies at the bottom of that tank? The usual suspects, really. They are the insane ideas that spread like wildfire each time they're brought up and cause the predictable and easily-incited hoards of Mac fundamentalists to hit the message boards and their own pathetic little blogs and write and write and write about how it will (never) come to pass and how everyone else is just not seeing the "big picture" and how this idea could easy (save|kill) Apple, and computing in general! and so on and so forth.

Poppycock.

If you ever see an article on these topics, you're being played for a fool and should ignore it:

• Mac OS X for PCs (and the variant "Apple moves Macs to Intel")
• PowerBook G5
• Video iPod
• Movie store
• Apple-branded PDA

Let's just get it out into the open here and now, okay? Apple's not doing any of them; not now, and not years ago when it was first "reported" that they were. Quit daydreaming and get back on track. Whatever Apple's next innovation is, you won't see it coming until it slaps you across the face like the Apple bitch you are and gives you that tell-tale "you had it all wrong, again" look.

If it was easy to guess where Apple would steer the industry next then Sony would have long ago stolen the show from them. Sony has good designers, both aesthetic and electronic, and could easily best Apple out of the "niche computer artisan" market if they had any sense of direction at all. Well, and got rid of their NIH syndrome (ATRAC3-only in a digital Walkman? Dear God, man, what were you thinking?).

So, look, what this boils down to is that the next damn time I open MacSurfer and see a load of bullshit like any of this, I'm just going to stop reading web sites for a week. It's not worth sorting through this much stupidity and naïveté just to find out that it was a slow news day.

If you're a writer for the Mac Web, I urge you to listen to one piece of feedback: If there's nothing to report, stop writing and wait until there is.

Thank you, and good night.

reporters mad over being duped by
Shyamalan

reporters mad over being duped by
Shyamalan 07/20/2004 01:15 PM
that rascally indian confounded us again! turns out he was dead the whole time

Greensboro Reporters Launch Blogs

Greensboro Reporters Launch Blogs 03/27/2005 03:48 PM
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U.S.: troops cleared of abusing
reporters

U.S.: troops cleared of abusing
reporters 05/20/2004 12:58 PM

ITV Seeks Army of 3G News Reporters

ITV Seeks Army of 3G News Reporters 06/15/2004 03:56 AM
3G Jun 15 2004 7:18AM GMT

SCO shows financials but avoids
reporters

SCO shows financials but avoids
reporters 12/22/2003 03:04 PM
What a way to start Christmas Week -- with a puppet show! The SCO Group held a one-hour teleconference this morning to discuss its financial results for the quarter and for the year. The Linden, Utah-based company hosted the obligatory Q&A session following discussion of the financials, but as has been the case in previous press/analyst conferences, it appeared that callers were carefully screened to ensure only SCO-friendly analysts were allowed questions.

Should Reporters Investigate Online
Rumors?

Should Reporters Investigate Online
Rumors? 05/25/2004 02:49 PM
Just last week we had a story about how the job of the reporter was changing with the rise of the internet - where everyone can be a "citizen reporter." The story pointed out that traditional news sources were sticking to their old way of doing things and completely ignoring online rumors. While this makes sense from a traditional journalistic viewpoint, news consumers were clearly flocking to the rumor sites. In response, the article pointed out that reporters needed to become "the ratifiers of the news" rather than "gatekeepers of the news." It appears that others are coming to the same conclusion. The Village Voice now has a column saying that reporters need to investigate online rumors. People know they're out there, and without reporters digging into them and figuring out if they're true or not, rumors start to take on a life of their own. As the writer says: "Yes, covering rumors would empower lies. But you can't quash juicy stuff by ignoring it. And after all, the "real" media are quite capable of twisting the facts."

Japan reporters attacked in Iraq

Japan reporters attacked in Iraq 05/28/2004 12:38 AM
Gunmen fire on a car carrying two Japanese journalists in Iraq, with one of them believed to have been killed.

Online reporters get media support

Online reporters get media support 04/12/2005 10:55 AM
Staronline.com - Tue Apr 12, 09:38 am GMT

At a Suit's Core: Are Bloggers
Reporters, Too?

At a Suit's Core: Are Bloggers
Reporters, Too? 03/14/2005 06:16 PM
A lawsuit filed in California by Apple Computer is drawing the courts into that question: Who should be considered a journalist?

Reporters sans frontires - Iraq

Reporters sans frontires - Iraq 08/28/2004 04:46 AM
Horror at Execution of Italian Journalist Enzo Baldoni .. murder

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French reporters vanish in Iraq

French reporters vanish in Iraq 08/21/2004 10:09 PM
Paris confirms two French journalists are missing in Iraq as concern grows for the safety of an Italian.

Wall St.Journal editors, reporters
picket

Wall St.Journal editors, reporters
picket 04/21/2004 05:07 PM

The latest White House script for
reporters

The latest White House script for
reporters 01/18/2004 04:54 AM
Howard Dean is so angry! He has no credibility on foreign policy! He wants to take away your grenade launcher!

Reporters given tour of improved Abu
Ghraib (USATODAY.com)

Reporters given tour of improved Abu
Ghraib (USATODAY.com) 05/18/2004 01:28 PM
USATODAY.com - Amid continuing controversy over the treatment of Iraqi prisoners, U.S. Army officials on Monday unveiled dramatic improvements at the prison where soldiers are accused of routinely abusing their captives.

Newsroom codes of ethics: Let's pretend
our reporters don't think at all!

Newsroom codes of ethics: Let's pretend
our reporters don't think at all! 08/31/2004 01:04 AM
What are we to make of the absurdity emerging from the Miami Herald, where an editor has apparently told his staff that they'd better not purchase tickets to political benefit concerts, because such activities will taint the sanctity of their news-gathering enterprise?

I've never understood the sort of journalistic code of ethics -- now prevalent in many American newsrooms, particularly those owned by big corporate chains -- that requires newspeople to pretend that they are not human beings with brains and beliefs and emotions and lives. The logic of these rules -- that, for instance, forbid reporters from participating in political rallies or contributing to campaigns or otherwise behaving like normal, politically engaged citizens -- seems to stem from fear. The editors and publishers who promulgate them are worried that, if critics of their institutions get hold of factual evidence that reporters actually hold their own opinions and beliefs, those critics will be able to argue that their news reports are biased. This is the sort of fear that drives executives insane, since -- despite decades of effort -- no American corporation has yet figured out how to find that ideal Employee With No Mind of His Own, and a newsroom is the last place you'd want to hire him, anyway.

This issue, of course, leads one deep into the swamp of the hoary debate over "journalistic objectivity." Me, I can't imagine how any thinking journalist or reader in 2004 can imagine that it's possible for a reporter to so thoroughly suppress his individuality and experiences that he can provide an account of events that's unshaped by who he is -- or that, were it possible, such an account would be desirable. But others disagree, and in fact I hear the "lack of objectivity" charge today less often from journalists than from consumers of journalism, who have -- sadly but understandably -- taken the profession's traditional avowal of objectivity at face value, and then become outraged at its failure to achieve that pristine state.

For clarity here, let's distinguish between the unattainable standard of objectivity -- a scientific absolute poised as subjectivity's opposite -- and the entirely attainable, and laudable, standards of fairness and accuracy and honesty and transparency that any journalist of good mind and heart will subscribe to. Fairness: If you're presenting one side of a story, you owe it to your readers, your subjects and yourself to weigh the other side's case. Accuracy: Observation should always trump preconception, and you just don't publish something that you know is untrue, even if it helps make an argument you cherish. Honesty: You do your best to present the truth as you have witnessed it and understand it, knowing that your witness and understanding are shaped by who you are, yet also knowing that honesty will sometimes require you to report things that make you uncomfortable or call your own beliefs into question. Transparency: You do your best to avoid financial conflicts of interest, and where you have an unavoidable interest in a story you're covering, you reveal it up front.

These principles seem so simple and obvious to me after a quarter century of writing and editing that when I read something like these words from the Miami Herald memo, my eyes roll: "As you know and understand, it is improper for independent journalists -- which we are -- to engage in partisan politics or to advocate for political causes. In this case, buying a ticket to any of these events is tantamount to making a political contribution, which is prohibited by the newsroom's Guidelines on Ethics."

Where to begin here? Note how the newspaper has revised the concept of conflict of interest -- which should apply to situations where an individual can improperly gain material benefit in the course of pursuing her professional responsibilities -- and turned it into a stricture demanding that all reporters neuter their civic selves.

Sure, any "Guideline on Ethics" ought to forbid journalists accepting contributions (i.e., bribes) from politicians -- that's a conflict of interest! But if you accept the logic that a reporter contributing to a political campaign constitutes a conflict of interest, you really can't avoid insisting that the reporter, um, not vote, either.

If you believe that a reporter who contributes to a political campaign can't write about politics, you've set an all-consuming trap for the entire journalistic enterprise. Your rule will keep widening its net: If buying a ticket to a political benefit is verboten, since the money from the benefit will end up in a campaign's coffers, then the reporter should carefully refrain as well from buying a movie ticket from any studio that has used its profits to make any sort of political contribution. For that matter, better stay away from buying any product from any corporation that has chosen to give dough to any candidate. If you pay taxes, you'd better think twice about writing about any arm of the government to which you've contributed. And so on.

It's hopeless; the Herald's staff might as well take vows of poverty, chastity and silence -- and leave their paper's columns blank. (Meanwhile, of course, these corporate codes of ethics never seem to apply any strictures to the folks who own the papers -- and who have far more substantial interests that tend to be far more conflicted.)

Alternately, American journalism's managerial class could accept that reporters are people with lives -- and that their best bet at salvaging their profession is to start from that point, rather than desperately run from it. The vitality of the blogosphere offers one hopeful sign: here's a model of journalism that rests on a foundation of openness, individuality and participation. But the Miami Herald's code of ethics probably bans blogging, too.

"The CIA Agent Flap: FBI Asks for
Reporters to Talk"

"The CIA Agent Flap: FBI Asks for
Reporters to Talk" 01/04/2004 03:53 AM

Reporters Deal With Rough Disaster
Images (AP)

Reporters Deal With Rough Disaster
Images (AP) 01/02/2005 01:41 PM
AP - Editors at The New York Times and Los Angeles Times showed similar judgment one day last week in running large, front-page pictures of tsunami victims. Faces of dead babies in makeshift morgues were clearly visible.

3 L.A. Times Reporters Injured in
Baghdad Bombing

3 L.A. Times Reporters Injured in
Baghdad Bombing 12/31/2003 08:30 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 31 2003 6:34PM ET

News Cos. Support Reporters in Apple
Case (AP)

News Cos. Support Reporters in Apple
Case (AP) 04/11/2005 05:02 PM
AP - More than a half-dozen news organizations are supporting three online journalists who published articles about a top-secret technology product that Apple Computer Inc. says was protected by trade secret laws.

Bush to Face Reporters in Prime Time
(AP)

Bush to Face Reporters in Prime Time
(AP) 04/12/2004 08:47 PM
AP - President Bush will work to defuse two issues in his prime-time news conference on Tuesday: rising casualties in Iraq and his response in 2001 to a terrorism warning the White House had in hand before the Sept. 11 attacks.

PHILLY DAILY NEWS: Reporters camp
outside home

PHILLY DAILY NEWS: Reporters camp
outside home 02/15/2004 05:11 PM
Works for the Associated Press .. problmes

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"Paul Krugman gives some free advice to
reporters covering the..."

"Paul Krugman gives some free advice to
reporters covering the..." 12/26/2003 09:03 PM

U.S. Reporters to Defy Order to Disclose
Sources (Reuters)

U.S. Reporters to Defy Order to Disclose
Sources (Reuters) 01/07/2004 03:25 PM
Reuters - Amid concerns that journalists' rights may be under attack, the first of three reporters from major U.S. media outlets will defy on Wednesday an order by a federal judge to disclose their sources in an unfounded espionage case, their lawyers said.

Nepali Reporters Take Democracy Fight to
Cyberspace (Reuters)

Nepali Reporters Take Democracy Fight to
Cyberspace (Reuters) 03/23/2005 01:55 AM
Reuters - Journalists in Nepal, one of the world's poorest and most backward nations, are going hi-tech to sidestep tight censorship imposed after last month's royal coup.

Reporters sans frontires - The Internet
under surveillance 2004

Reporters sans frontires - The Internet
under surveillance 2004 06/23/2004 07:17 PM
Internet Under Surveillance 2004 .. report

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