A story published in Mother Jones claims Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly made up stories about his time covering the Falklands War for CBS News. According to Mother Jones - and some of O'Reilly's former colleagues - it was impossible for him to have seen the instances of combat he describes. Missouri School of Journalism alum and former KFRU-AM news director Eric Engberg is among those disputing O'Reilly's accounts.
David Corn and Daniel Schulman, Mother Jones: “Bill O’Reilly has his own Brian Williams problem”
David Corn, Mother Jones: “The proofiness of BillO’Reilly”
David Corn, Mother Jones: “Bill O’Reilly Responds. We Annotate”
Michael Calderone, Huffington Post Media “Mother Jones Urges Bill O’Reilly To Apologize For Violent’ Remark After Falklands War Claims Scrutinized”
MediaBuzz, Fox News Channel: "Bill O'Reilly vs. Mother Jones"
Emily Steel, The New York Times “Bill O’Reilly, Fox News Host, Fights Back At Claims Of Exaggerated Stories”
Dylan Byers, POLITICO: “Bill O’Reilly threatens N.Y. Times reporter”
Terrence McCoy, Washington Post: “How Bill O’Reilly imploded at CBS following his Falklands War ‘combat’ reporting”
Dylan Byers, POLITICO: “Why the Bill O’Reilly charges aren’t sticking”
Pitching to Page One
New York Times Editor Dean Baquet is ditching the traditional Page One meeting for something new: the Dean's List.
Michael Calderone, Huffington Post: “New York Times shifts focus off print page one as it looks toward digital future”
Benjamin Mullin, Poynter: “Dean Baquet: NYT will retire ‘system of pitching stories for print Page 1’”
Matthew Ingram, Gigaom: “At long last, the New York Times is thinking about digital first”
Jeff Jarvis, Geeks Bearing Gifts: “Digital First – what then?”
Executive Privilege?
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has requested state agency heads and staff put a disclaimer on all internal correspondence, stating that it's "confidential for internal use only -- protected by executive privilege."
First Amendment and open government supporters say this is will result in the shielding of public documents, while the governor's spokesman dismissed the directive as insignificant.
Timothy B. Wheeler, Baltimore Sun: “Hogan ‘executive privilege’ email troubles open-government advocates”
Editorial, Baltimore Sun: “Hogan’s executive privilege”
Toronto Star pulls Gardisil story
On February 5, 2015, the Toronto Star published an investigation into a possible connection between Merck's Gardisil vaccine and illnesses in teenage girls. The three-shot series protects against the sexually-transmitted human papillomavirus.
Toronto Star: “A note from the publisher”
David Bruser & Jesse McLean, Toronto Star: “Families seek more transparency on HPV vaccine”
Juliet Guichon & Dr. Rupert Kaul, Toronto Star: “Science shows HPV vaccine has no dark side” (Op-ed)
Kathy English, Toronto Star: “Public editor criticizes the Star’s Gardasil story”
Anna Maria Tremonti, CBC Radio: “Star’s Gardisil story points to larger issue in health reporting”
Dr. Jen Gunter, Canadaland: “The Toronto Star’s HPV reporting is a disaster”
Julia Belluz, Vox: “How the Toronto Star massively botched a story about the HPV vaccine – and corrected the record”
Jobs for journalism grads
A study from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce indicates the unemployment rate among recent college graduates is dropping for almost all major fields of study... except journalism.
Rob Wile, Fusion: “Unemployment rates are falling for everyone but journalism grads”
Catherine Taibi, Huffington Post: "Employment rates are improving for everyone but journalism majors"
