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Views Preview: Starbucks, USA Today Team Up for 'RaceTogether' Campaign

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Coffee giant Starbucks and USA Today have teamed up to start a nationwide conversation about race. Baristas as encouraged to write "#RaceTogether" on drink cups and initiate conversations with customers about racial issues. Friday, there will be a special section in the print editions of the USA Today. That supplement will also be available in Starbucks retail locations.

Bruce Horovitz, USA Today: “Starbucks, USA Today team up to tackle race issues

Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post: “Starbucks now serving coffee with a dose of debate on race

Philip Bump, Washington Post: “Starbucks keeps trying to fix American politics by writing things on cups

Danielle Henderson, Fusion: “The Starbucks ‘Race Together’ campaign sounds like a terrible idea

Haley Peterson, Business Insider: “A Starbucks executive just deleted his Twitter after backlash over the company’s new campaign

Aura Borgado, Colorlines: "What racial diversity looks like at Starbucks"

Starbucks Newsroom: “What ‘Race Together’ means for Starbucks partners and customers

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Robert Durst charged with murder following recordings

Robert Durst, the focus of HBO’s ‘The Jinx’ docuseries, is now under arrest and charged with murder in the 2000 homicide of Susan Berman. How role did filmmakers Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smeling play in cracking the case? And, how likely is it the statements they recorded will be admissible in court?

Charles V. Bagli & Vivian Yee, New York Times: “Robert Durst of HBO’s ‘The Jinx’ says he ‘killed them all’

Saba Hamedy, Los Angeles Times: “’The Jinx’ finale, Robert Durst and documentaries as judge and jury

Bruce Fretts, New York Times: “’The Jinx’ director Andrew Jarecki on Robert Durst and that ending

Jonathan Mahler, New York Times: “Irresistible TV, but Durst film tests ethics, too

Lynn Elber, Associated Press: “Media turns detective with ‘The Jinx,’ other murder cases

Anne Helen Petersen, BuzzFeed: “How ‘The Jinx’ narratively manipulated its viewers

Molly Hennessy-Fiske & Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times: “Robert Durst, subject of HBO’s ‘The Jinx,’ to be sent to L.A. in slaying case

Margaret Sullivan, New York Times: “Spoilers, embargoes, disclosures and ‘Jinx’

The Aftermath: SAE racist video

The Greek System hasn't gotten a lot of good press lately, with stories of deadly hazing incidents, the now-discredited story about sexual assault at University of Virginia, and now the racist chants performed by members of the now-disbanded Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at University of Oklahoma.

Erik Wemple, Washington Post: “’Daily Show’s Jon Stewart raps ‘Morning Joe’ for reaction to racist fraternity incident

Matt Wilstein, Mediaite: “Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski tries to clarify comments about rap

Jim Romenesko, “Wrong Parker Rice, CNN (and how many other media outlets?)

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White House erases FOIA rule... during Sunshine Week

Sunshine Week is a time when journalists, civic groups, libraries, nonprofits, schools and anyone else interested in the transparency come together for a conversation about open government. Makes for interesting timing, that the Obama administration chose Monday to announce it deleted the requirement for the Office of Administration to adhere to the federal Freedom of Information Act.

Gregory Korte, USA Today: “White House office to delete its FOIA regulations

Danielle Haynes, UPI: “WH office drops transparency on freedom of information day

Kevin Johnson & Kevin G. Hall, Associated Press: “New players join newspapers in using FOIA requests

Associated Press: “Freedom of Information, access issues in all 50 states

Gary Pruitt, McClatchy DC: “Public’s access to government records faces roadblocks aplenty

Police body cameras: What’s public?

Is video captured using police body cameras a public record? In most places, yes. But, there's a bill winding through the state senate that would block their release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa1mYAS1Jg0

Editorial Board, Springfield News-Leader: “Our view: Public video records at risk in state Senate

William Schmitt, Columbia Missourian: “Body cameras to capture conversations, conflicts between police and citizens

Howard Fischer, Arizona Daily Star: “State Senate oks rules for police body cameras

Susannah Nesmith, Columbia Journalism Review: “With more police wearing cameras, the fight over footage has begun in Florida

Andy Campbell, Huffington Post: “Texas bill would make recording police illegal

Credit Courtesy TIME Magazine

Are those horns?

Did editors at TIME Magazine mean to make it look like Hillary Clinton had horns on its latest cover? Or is that just unfortunate placement?

Kendall Breitman, POLITICO: “TIME gives Clinton horns on cover

Keith J. Kelly, New York Post: “TIME Magazine is accused of making it appear that Hillary Clinton has horns. Talk about bad timing

AMY SIMONS teaches news literacy, multimedia journalism and advanced social media strategies.
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