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Views of the News: Watergate; Leaks Probe; NOLA Layoffs; Ethics Potpourri; Awards & Sorkin

KBIA | By Mike McKean
Published June 13, 2012 at 9:50 AM CDT

40th Anniversay of Watergate

Robert Samuels, The Washington Post: "At Post Watergate forum, scandal's players tell their stories"

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "Watergate Remembered Four Decades Later at Washington Post Party"

Dylan Byers, Politico: "Woodward, Bernstein downplay Deep Throat"

Leonard Downie, Jr., The Washington Post: "Forty years after Watergate, investigative journalism is at risk"

White House and NYT Leaks Probe

Leigh Ann Caldwell, CBS News: "Bernstein warns against 'witch hunt' on leaks inquiry"

Morgan Little, Los Angeles Times: "New York Times journalist defends national security leaks"

Pete Yost, Associated Press: "White House Leaks: Eric Holder Appoints 2 Prosecutors to Lead Investigation"

Times-Picayune Layoffs Revealed

 

Jack Mirkinson, Huffington Post: "New Orleans Times-Picayune Laoffs: Paper Cuts a Third of Its Staff"

Campbell Robertson, The New York Times: "Big Staff Reductions Imposed at Papers in New Orleans and Alabama"

Rem Rieder, American Journalism Review: "Newhouse Flunks the Test in New Orleans"

Jason Saul, WWNO-FM: "City news organizations respond to Times-Picayune layoffs"

News Ethics Potpourri

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Shimon Prokupecz, Jonathan Dienst and Joe Valiquette, NBC4 New York: "Yacht Explosion Hoax Call Came from Southern NY or NJ: Officials"

Christina Ng and Carlos Boettcher, ABC News Nightline: "New Wave of High-Profile Hoaxes"

Naftali Bendavid, The Wall Street Journal: "Reporter Resigns After Code-of-Conduct Violation"

Bill Carter and Amy Chozick, The New York Times: "Syria's Assads Turned to West for Glossy P.R."

News Viewing: Sleeze and Satire

London Daily Mail: "John Edwards' former mistress Rielle Hunter to break her silence about relationship with disgraced senator"

David Zurawik, Baltimore Sun: "Aaron Sorkin's 'The Newsroom' nails the failure of journalism today"

Radio-Television Digital News Association: "2012 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners"
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Mike McKean
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.
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