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Views of the News: Coach Fired,Ware's Awful Injury, No More Illegal Immigrant, Sexist Scientist Obit

ESPN Helps Bring Down Coach

ESPN: "Rutgers fires coach Mike Rice"

Michael Pearson and Brittany Brady, CNN: "Rutgers coach fired after abusive video broadcast"

Mark Memmott, NPR: "'Fired' is Now the F-Word for Rutgers Basketball Coach"

Awful Injury on Live TV

Ben Koo, Awful Announcing blog: "How CBS, ESPN, and Others Dealt With Kevin Ware Injury Footage"

Michael Hiestand, USA Today: "CBS handles Kevin Ware injury with restraint"

Drew Magary, Deadspin: "Are You a Bad Person If You Want to Watch What Happened to Kevin Ware?"

AP Bans "Illegal Immigrant"

Paul Colford, The Associated Press: "'Illegal Immigrant' No More"

Margaret Sullivan, New York Times Public Editor: "The Times, Too, Is Reconsidering the Term 'Illegal Immigrant'"

Jack Mirkinson, The Huffington Post: "AP's Dropping of 'Illegal Immigrant' Could Have Wide Ramifications for Media"

Mark Krikorian, National Review: "Mr. George Orwell, Please Pick Up the White Courtesy Phone"

Bad Recipe For Scientist's Obit

Erik Ortiz, New York Daily News: "New York Times hit with sexism accusations after obit of scientist Yvonne Brill leads with her cooking ability"

Margaret Sullivan, New York Times Public Editor: "Gender Questions Arise in Obituary of Rocket Scientist and Her Beef Stroganoff"

Emma Barnett, The Telegraph: "BBC launches expert women database and YouTube channel"

Jane Martinson, The Guardian: "Expert Women at the BBC: is a database and training enough?"

How (NOT) To Interview?

Mark Lisheron, American Journalism Review: "The E-Mail Interview Debate"

Kittens, Penguins and Cockroaches: Must See TV

Brian Stelter, The New York Times: "Addictive Animal Webcams Get Network Attention"

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.