There's quiet in the streets of Baltimore again, but the media is still talking about the death of Freddie Gray and the protests that erupted in the aftermath.
David Zurawik, Baltimore Sun: “FOP besmirches media, but WBAL has clear conflict of interest with prosecutor’s office”
Mark Puente & Doug Donovan, Baltimore Sun: “The truth about Freddie Gray’s ‘pre-existing injury from car accident’"
Dylan Byers, POLITICO: “Freddie Gray’s co-prisoner disputes police report published in Washington Post”
Dylan Byers, POLITICO: “The Washington Post’s correction problem"
Ryan Grim, Huffington Post: “How the media can stop embarrassing themselves at the hands of police”
Shadi Rahimi, Poynter: “How AJ+ reported from Baltimore using only mobile phones”
Jay Casipian Kang, New York Times: “’Our demand is simple: Stop killing us”
Josh Levs, CNN: "After Baltimore riots, some leaders slam ‘thug’ as the new n-word”
Catherine Taibi, Huffington Post: “Soledad O’Brien says journalists need to stop using the word ‘thug’ to describe Baltimore protests”
Bradley Campbell, BBC: “The unlikely origins of the word ‘thug’”
Mayweather-Pacquiao Fight
It's been billed as one of the biggest fights in boxing history. But, some of its biggest headlines were about what happened outside the ring: allegations of domestic abuse in Mayweather's past, anti-gay comments Pacquiao made, and more.
ESPN: “Reporters say their credentials were revoked for Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight”
Kevin Paul Dupont, Boston Globe: “Floyd Mayweather’s camp accused of revoking credentials of two female reporters”
Daniel Roberts, Deadspin: “Floyd Mayweather bans Michelle Beadle, Rachel Nichols from covering bout”
Ian Mohr, Page Six: “Couric fled from Pacquiao-Mayweather fight”
Frank Miniter, Forbes: “What the big fight tells us about us”
Javier E. David & Steve Kopack, CNBC: “Mayweather-Pacquiao demand sends PPV into tailspin”
Alex Stedman, Variety: “Service outages reported ahead of Mayweather-Pacquiao fight”
DirecTV order page tells customer to check back on fight in 2 weeks (H/T @tcdonovan) pic.twitter.com/qzMnLgHG6t
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) May 3, 2015
Des Bieler, Washington Post: “Lots of people are mad that they are trying – and failing – to watch Mayweather-Pacquiao pay-per-view”
Christina Warren, Mashable: “I watched the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight on Periscope and saw the future”
Danny Sullivan, MarketingLand: “Meerkat & Periscope let people pirate the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight: Twitter’s CEO doesn’t care”
Credentials pulled over Periscope
The Professional Golfers' Association of America has revoked the media credentials of blogger Stephanie Wei. Wei used the live-streaming app Periscope to broadcast from a practice round of the WGC-Cadillac Match Play Championship in a way the PGA said violated its terms.
Stephanie Wei, Wei Under Par: “This is why I used Periscope during Monday’s practice round at the WGC-Cadillac Match Play Championship”
Greg Wyshynski, Yahoo Sports: “NHL bans media from using Periscope, Meerkat to subvert rights-holders”
NYT knows where you are
The New York Times used readers' IP addresses to created geotagged displays customized for each user showing local data on a story about poverty levels across the United States. Cool or creepy?
David Leongardt, Amanda Cox & Claire Cain Miller, New York Times: “An atlas of upward mobility shows paths out of poverty”
The Upshot, New York Times: “The best and worst places to grow up: How your area compares”
Justin Ellis, Nieman Journalism Lab: “The Upshot uses geolocation to push readers deeper into data”
Surgery in Nepal
CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta performed brain surgery on an 8-year-old girl while on assignment covering the 7.8-magnitude earthquake.
Jessica Elgot, The Guardian: “CNN physician-journalist poses ethical dilemma after treating Nepal victims”
Elizabeth Shim, UPI: “Medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta asked to preform surgery due to doctor shortage in Nepal”
Ben Tinker & Hilary Whiteman, CNN: “Emergency on helicopter as Nepal quake victim stops breathing”
Mammogram story 'missing some science'
NPR Ombudsman Elizabeth Jensen was critical of a Morning Edition report on the politics of mammogram recommendations.
Juana Summers, NPR:“Congress may be forced to intervene again on mammogram recommendations”
Elizabeth Jensen, NPR: “Political story on breast cancer screenings was missing some science”
Gary Schwitzer, Health News Review: “Imbalanced NPR political story on mammography guidelines”
‘I was just nudging him to get on’
What interviewer hasn't considered doing this... especially right before lunch?
Nick Gass, POLITICO: “Sixth grader who cut off Barack Obama: ‘I was just nudging him to get on’”
