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Journalists storm San Bernardino shooters’ apartment after landlord pries open door By Brian Ries2015-12-04 17:51:34 UTC In a surreal scene, a swarm of local and national media entered the apartment where Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik lived after the landlord tore off a piece of plywood that was blocking the door. News outlets, including MSNBC,…
Multiple news organizations are reporting that Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance on Facebook to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Updated on December 4 at 12:06 p.m. Tashfeen Malik, the wife of Syed Rizwan Farook, swore allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, on the morning the couple killed 14 people at a social-services center in San…
Do you smell rice? It’s not like none of us in journalism has ever shit the bed on a story before; it’s rather a rite of passage. I once made a “dead gay son” joke without realizing Randall Terry’s gay son actually was dead. I remain, as I should be, horrified. Another time, I had…
A focus still on the desktop Though mobile adblockers may well prove to be a significant issue for news organizations in months or years to come, the outlets we spoke with are still focused primarily on desktop. They’re examining their options to circumvent adblockers, discourage readers from using them, or even prevent users from seeing…
Dec. 2, 2015 7:00 a.m. ET Veteran tech site Engadget is getting a face-lift and a new outlook on life. The 11-year-old blog is unveiling a significant redesign of its site on Wednesday amid a move to broaden its focus beyond gadgets and consumer technology and re-establish itself in the crowded tech news space. Engadget,…
“Seriously?” That’s all that CNN’s Jake Tapper could summon during an interview with a top aide for Donald Trump on Monday, where the topic predictably turned to the candidate’s widely debunked claims of having seen footage of Muslims in the U.S. celebrating on the day of the 9/11 attacks. In what has become an almost…
According to at least one online analytics provider—namely, comScore—the Washington Post surpassed the New York Times in web traffic in October, with roughly 67 million unique visitors compared to about 66 million for the Times. This is interesting in part because the Post has closed the readership gap with its New York-based competitor at a…
Stefano Schirato/REX Shutterstock Start Article Post Content CNN has suspended global affairs correspondent Elise Labott after she tweeted about Syrian refugees and a bill that would make it harder for them to enter the United States, according to multiple reports. Labott injected her own opinion about the bill in her tweet, along with the link…
A CNN article detailing the first day in the trial of one of six Baltimore police officers indicted in the death of Freddie Gray has sparked outrage online. Why? Because of the manner in which CNN journalists Ann O’Neill and Aaron Cooper referred to Gray’s mother. Following an otherwise straightforward lede, O’Neill and Cooper described the deceased…
Over the weekend, the New York Times published a story about Bluestockings, “a bookshop and activist center” in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The Times introduces staffer Senia Hardwick like this: Mx. Hardwick, 27, who prefers not to be assigned a gender — and also insists on the gender-neutral Mx. in place of Ms. or Mr….