LA Weekly News Editor Jill Stewart weighs in on the Diddy-Biggie-Tupac mess, laying the blame at the feet of a lax unnamed sourcing policy at the Spring Street Monster:
[...] It was so jammed with off-record sources it read like a piece from the Bad Old Days before corrupt journalist Jayson Blair so badly dirtied The [...]
Archive for March, 2008
LA Weekly’s Stewart Slams the LAT
Posted in News on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
LA Times Tupac Story Brings Increased Scrutiny to Online Documents
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So says Editor & Publisher.
- Dan Evans
Fired SB Sun Reporter Muses About Job Search
Posted in News on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a phrase: it’s tough. Paul Oberjuerge, laid off during the most recent LANG purges, talks about his job search. Though he does seem fairly sanguine about the whole of his situation, he does end it with this:
[...] But I do have an increasing sense that for better or worse, I’m done with print journalism. [...]
LA Times Apolgizes for Tupac Story
Posted in News on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Los Angeles Times posted an article on its Web site last night apologizing for an article, printed earlier this month, implicating Sean “Diddy” Combs in the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur. The article was based on documents that appear to have been fabricated. Oops. Newly minted Times Editor Russ Stanton had this to say:
“The [...]
LA Times Rap Expose Based on Fake Documents, Says TSG
Posted in News on March 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Last week, the Los Angeles Times published a story stating that the 1994 shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur was carried out by associates of Sean “Diddy” Combs, and that Combs knew about the recording studio ambush beforehand. The story relied heavily on FBI documents provided to the newspaper.
Today, The Smoking Gun published evidence that those [...]
SPJ/LA Presents Ethics in the Digital Age
Posted in SPJ/LA Events on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Immediate Release
March 26, 2008
Contact: Alice Walton, SPJ/LA
(310) 595-5612
spjlosangeles@gmail.com
SPJ/LA Presents Ethics in the Digital Age
Save the Date: Wednesday, April 23
The Greater L.A. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists invites you to join us on Wednesday, April 23, for an in-depth panel discussion on how reporters can ethically make use of the Internet in their [...]
SPJ/LA Gathering Items for Annual Auction
Posted in SPJ/LA News on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Immediate Release
March 25, 2008
Contact: Alice Walton, SPJ/LA
(310) 595-5612
LOS ANGELES – The Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is soliciting items for its silent and live auctions as part of its 32nd annual awards banquet next month.
The Distinguished Journalists Awards banquet will be held on Wednesday, April 30 at the Omni Hotel [...]
Lawyer Argues Fired News-Press Workers Should be Reinstated Immediately
Posted in News on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Editor & Publisher:
A federal labor lawyer argued Monday that eight workers fired from the Santa Barbara News-Press should be put back on the job immediately because they are likely to prevail in their case claiming they were improperly fired for union activity.
Steve Wyllie, a lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board, made his argument [...]
Journalist Law School Deadline Extended
Posted in Other Local Events on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Loyola Law School’s third-annual Journalist Law School will run June 18-21. There is still time to apply – the director recently extended the application deadline to Monday, March 31 because the original deadline fell over Loyola’s spring break and abutted Easter weekend. So if your reporting includes cops, courts or some other aspect of [...]
Press-Telegram Staffers Protest Cuts
Posted in News on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A group of 30 or so Long Beach Press-Telegram workers held a rally outside the newspaper’s office Monday, saying the recent cuts to the newspaper are threatening their livelihoods and drastically affecting news coverage. From the P-T’s coverage:
[...] The P-T’s newsroom staff, which is represented by Communications Workers of America Local 9400, is in its [...]
