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Views of the News: Royal baby, Rolling Stone cover, Helen Thomas legacy, Ad rules, Asparagus bias!

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UK's The Sun Newspaper

  "It's a Boy!"

Jessica Elgot, The Huffington Post-United Kingdom: "Royal Baby: CNN's Victoria Arbiter Congratulates Kate For Having A Boy 'First Time'"

Park MacDougald, Foreign Policy: "British Reporters Might Be Covering the Royal Baby, But They Want You to Know They Don't Like It"

BBC: "Royal baby preoccupies world media"

Terrorist or Rock Star?

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David Abel and Martin Finucane, The Boston Globe: "Disgust, outrage greet news of Tsarnaev cover in Boston"

Travis Anderson, The Boston Globe: "State Police photographer releases bloody Tsarnaev photos to Boston Magazine"

Nicholas Johnson, USA TODAY: "'Rolling Stone' cover deletes 11,000 words"

Josh Levs, CNN: "Will Rolling Stone's Dzhokhar Tsarnaev cover hurt sales?"

Helen Thomas Legacy: Women and Journalism

Calvin Woodward, Associated Press: "Legendary White House Correspondent Helen Thomas Dies Aged 92"

Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast: "Helen Thomas, a Relentless White House Reporter With a Softer Side"

David Folkenflik, NPR: "Veteran Journalist Helen Thomas Leaves An Outspoken Legacy"

Michael Miner, Chicago Reader: "Was Helen Thomas Too Old to Speak Her Mind?"

Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor,The New York Times: "Starting a Conversation at The Times About Women as News Sources"

Shannon Rupp, Salon: "Why are women deserting newspapers?"

Guarding the Henhouse: Rules for Native Ads

Richard Edelman, Edelman PR agency: "Sponsored Content: An Ethical Framework"

Jeff Bercovici, Forbes: "PR Giant Edelman Calls For Ethics In Sponsored Content"

The Politics of Asparagus!

Stephen Deere, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Dry asparagus prompts questions about racial discrimination in University City"

Alan Achkar, Post-Dispatch Metro Editor (on Facebook): "Many of you have wondered why we wrote this..."

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.