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Views of the News: The Cain Train, Penn State Scandal, Taking On the 'News Gurus'

"The Cain Train"

James V. Grimaldi, The Washington Post: "Cain accusers Bialek, Kraushaar planning joint news conference"

Julie Moos, Poynter.org: "The Daily names original Herman Cain accuser, other news orgs follow"

Maggie Haberman, Politico: "Cain aide wrongly insists they've 'confirmed' accuser's son works for POLITICO"

Breet J. Blackledge and Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press: "Cain accuser filed complaint against supervisors in her next job 3 years later"

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "Cain Denies New Harassment Charge"

Allesandra Stanley, The New York Times: "A Defiant Cain, Newly Serious, Goes for Broke"

Pew Research Center for the People & the Press: "39% Think Cain Allegations True, 24% False: Cain Coverage, on Balance, Seen as Fair"

Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News: "Most Amerians agree with Herman Cain: The media is 'downright dishonest'"

Erika Fry, Columbia Journalism Review: "Let's Slow Down the Cain Train"

Penn State in Media Cross Hairs

 

Genaro C. Armas, Associated Press: "Paterno to retire after season amid scandal"

Harrisburg Patriot-News Editorial Board: "Penn State's Graham Spanier, Joe Paterno need to leave as result of Jerry Sandusky case"

Howard Bryant, ESPN: "Penn State's failure of power"

Mike Pettigano, Black Shoe Diaries: "Jerry Who? News Media Irresponsibly Driving the Paterno Narrative"

Michael McCarthy, USA Today: "Is Big Ten Network avoiding Penn State sex scandal?"

Taking On the "News Gurus"

Dean Starkman, Columbia Journalism Review: "Confidence Game: The limited vision of the news gurus"

New Election Coverage Ideas?

Steven Myers, Poynter.org: "HuffPost partnering with Factcheck.org for 'Reclaim 2012' election coverage"

Nate Silver, The New York Times: "Is Obama Toast? Handicapping the 2012 Election" (see interactive graphic)

Brian Stelter, The New York Times: "Political Ad Spending Spurs Local TV Mergers"

MIKE MCKEAN directs the Futures Lab, the experimental newsroom and technology testing center of the Reynolds Journalism Institute. He founded the School's Convergence Journalism program and serves on the MU Information Technology Committee. McKean is a leader in the School's partnerships with Apple, Inc., and Adobe Systems to transform journalism education through pervasive computing. He is a frequent trainer and guest lecturer at top media companies and universities in China, has helped establish convergence journalism programs at Shantou University and Moscow State University, and has conducted Internet workshops in the United States, the Russian Federation and Albania. McKean has been honored with the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching and the MU Faculty-Alumni Award. He earned a bachelor's degree at the Missouri School of Journalism in 1979 and a master of arts in political science from Rice University in 1985. McKean has served on the J-School faculty since 1986.