It was a big weekend for the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the True/False Film Festival. “Concerned Student 1950,” a film produced by three documentary students, premiered Saturday night. And, professor Robert Greene’s award-winning film “Kate Plays Christine” had its local debut. But, it was filmmaker Spike Lee’s appearance that stole the show.
True/False: “Addition to the line up: Concerned Student 1950”
Annie Rees, Hannah Husmann & Danielle Katz: “Spike Lee documents Concerned Student 1950 demonstration for upcoming ’30 for 30’ film”
Ben Frederickson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “BenFred: A Spike Lee joint on Mizzou boycott? Buckle up”
Caitlin Busch, Vox Magazine: “Last but not least: True/False adds ‘Concerned Student 1950’ to schedule”
Laura Davis, Vox Magazine: “Yes, Spike Lee was in Columbia for True/False film ‘Concerned Student 1950’”
Chris O’Falt, IndieWire: “True/False: ‘Concerned Student 1950’ premieres to emotionally charged crowd, including Spike Lee”
Kristen Santer, Indiewire: “’Concerned Student 1950’ documentary to screen at True/False Film Festival”
Alan Burdziak, Columbia Daily Tribune: “True/False film documents experience of University of Missouri student protesters”
Rudi Keller, Columbia Daily Tribune: “True/False filmmaker sued for defamation in Boone County”
Katie Cammarata, KOMU-TV: “Lawsuit filed against one True/False filmmaker”
2016: Candy… when we need spinach
Margaret Sullivan, New York Times: “Waiter, where’s our (political) spinach?”
Michael R. Bloomberg, Bloomberg View: “The risk I will not take”
Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press: “Bloomberg again at center of his company, but readying exit?”
Benjamin Mullin, Poynter: “Michael Bloomberg won’t run for president, sparing his reporters from conflict-of-interest”
John Koblin, New York Times: “What did you watch Sunday night? ‘Downton Abbey’ or the debate?”
Hadas Gold, POLITICO: “For political media in Flint, the water crisis penetrates the campaign bubble”
Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: “Ted Cruz suggests the media is conspiring to help Donald Trump win primary”
David Folkenflik, NPR: “Decades later ‘Spy’ magazine founders continue to torment Trump”
Turkish paper raided
The Turkish government seized the nation's most widely-circulated newspaper, Zaman.
Natasha Onwuemezi, The Bookseller: “Pullman condemns seizure of Turkish newspaper”
Associated Press: “Turkey appoints trustees to opposition-linked news agency”
Oliver Ellrodt, Reuters: “Turkey’s Zaman vows to continue as opposition newspaper in German exile”
Al Jazeera English: “Turkey’s Zaman: Editorial tone changes after takeover”
Safak Timur & Tim Arango, New York Times: “Turkey seizes newspaper, Zaman, as press crackdown continues”
Stuart Williams with Fulya Ozerkan, Associated Press: “Turkey newspaper defiant after raid as police disperse protests”
Nate Schenkkan, Foreign Policy: “The death blow to Turkey’s media”
BBC: “Zaman newspaper: "Turkey police raid press offices in Istanbul”
Erin Andrews lawsuit
A jury awards Erin Andrews $55 million for invasion of privacy after a stalker recorded nude video of her through a peephole in a hotel room.
Shelia Burke, Associated Press: “Jurors award Erin Andrews $55M in suit over nude video”
TMZ Staff, TMZ.com: “Erin Andrews: How $55 million gets whittled away to $6 mil”
Richard Deitsch, Sports Illustrated: “Amid Andrews trial, female sports reports open up about safety”
Tom Kludt, CNN Money: “Why sportscaster Erin Andrews is suing a hotel for $75 million”
Reuven Fenton and Danika Fears, Page Six: “17 million people have viewed Erin Andrews’ nude peepholevid”
Tom Kludt, CNN Money: “Erin Andrews tearfully testifies in $75 million stalker trial”
Meghan Keneally, ABC News: “Erin Andrews breaks down in court talking about her stalker’s video”
Juliet Spies-Gans, Huffington Post: “Just when you thought the Erin Andrews story couldn’t get any worse”
Hulk Hogan sex tape trial
Time for the real main event!"I AM" going to slam another Giant! Hogan vrs Gawker! Watcha Gonna Do Gawker? Only Justice Brother HH
— Hulk Hogan (@HulkHogan) March 1, 2016
Nick Madigan, New York Times: “Hulk Hogan takes stand in his sex-tape lawsuit against Gawker”
Tom Kludt, CNN Money: “Hulk Hogan fans – even the youth minister – on his side in sex tape trial”
Tom Kludt, CNN Money: “Hulk Hogan can’t compare his case to Erin Andrews’ case, judge rules”
Erik Eckholm, New York Times: “Hulk Hogan’s suit over sex tape may test limits of online press freedom”
Ryan McCarthy, New York Times: “When a sex tape is newsworthy: Privacy in the Internet era”
Hefner saves high school paper
Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner single-handedly saves the students newspaper at his high school alma mater.
Linze Rice, DNAinfo.com: “Hugh Hefner saves embattled school newspaper of his high school alma mater”
Linze Rice, DNAinfo.com: “Amid ‘censorship’ flap, Steinmetz to abandon 81-year-old school newspaper”
James Warren, Poynter: “How Hugh Hefner keeps a high school paper going strong”
Crossword cheat
Oliver Roeder, FiveThirtyEight: “A plagiarism scandal is unfolding in the crossword world”
Eli Rosenberg, New York Times: “Questions raised over crosswords seemingly copied from the New York Times”