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Views of the News: Aussies to Blame?; BuzzFeed Ethics; What Fiscal Cliff?; Skinny on Beef

KBIA | By Mike McKean
Published December 12, 2012 at 8:14 AM CST

Australians to Blame?

Erik Ortiz, New York Daily News: "Jacintha Saldanha, victim of Australian radio prank call about Kate Middleton, left suicide note for family"

Thom Patterson, CNN: "Aussie DJ scandal: Does radio share the blame?"

Stephen Marche, Esquire: "We're All to Blame for Jacintha Saldanha"

Holly Byrnes, Patrick Lion and Jessica Leo, The Australian: "Royal hoax inquiry expected today"

Maria Sciullo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "On the Media: Law here a barrier to Aussie DJ prank"

Toronto Globe and Mail editorial: "The perils of prank calls, and how one in particular went way too far"

Sandra Parsons, The Daily Mail: "Does Kate's hospital care more about PR than its own nurses?"

Christopher Moraff, The Philly Post: "Blame the Audience for Nurse's Death After Kate Middleton Hospital Prank"

Michael Russnow, The Huffington Post: "British Nurse's Apparent Suicide is Tragic, But Media and Public Response Has Been Over the Top"

BuzzFeed's Ethics

Jack Stuef, BuzzFeed.com: "The Secrets of the Internet's Most Beloved Viral Marketer"

Matthew Inman, The Oatmeal: "I wrote a response to Jack Steuf's BuzzFeed article about me"

Jeff John Roberts, GigaOm: "BuzzFeed apologizes (sort of) for smear of The Oatmeal cartoonist"

Slade Sohmer, Hypervocal.com: "Why This BuzzFeed v. The Oatmeal Fight Actually Does Matter"

What Fiscal Cliff?

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "Why the Fiscal Cliff Is a Snooze"

Brad Plumer, The Washington Post: "The rest of the world thinks the fiscal cliff is ridiculous"

The Skinny On Beef

Mike McGraw, Sarah Cohen et al, The Kansas City Star: "Beef's Raw Edges"

John Landsberg, Bottom Line Communications: "KC Star Announces Layoffs in Time for Holidays"

Loyalty to a Fault

JimRomenesko.com: "Auditors: State Employee Posted Nearly 5,000 Comments on Sacramento Bee Site"
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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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