Reporters are stepping up to cover Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath in ways we haven’t seen in more than a decade. This week, a look at some of the personal stories, the changes in technology and what’s still to come in the reporting from south Texas.
Brian Stelter, CNN Money: “Networks, newspapers out in full force as Hurricane Harvey soaks Texas”
Karen K. Ho, Columbia Journalism Review: “A Texas newsroom predicted a disaster. Now it’s close to coming true”
Clifford Krauss, New York Times: “A reporter’s tale in Houston: When a story becomes your own disaster”
Justin Miller, Daily Beast: “Watch: Houston TV crew saves truck driver’s life”
Kristen Hare, Poynter: “As Houston floods, this independent journalist is delivering the news to hundreds of thousands of people”
James Warren, Vanity Fair: “How Silicon Valley has changed hurricane coverage”
Al Thompkins, Poynter: “As the water rose, this Houston TV station fought to stay on-air”
Brian Stelter, CNN: “How social media is helping Houston deal with Harvey floods”
Abby Ohlheiser, Washington Post: “No, the shark picture isn’t real: A running list of Harvey’s viral hoaxes”
Brian Klaas, The Hill: “Journalists are heroes in Houston, deserve Trump apology”
THE NEW(S) FOMO
Nick Stockton, Wired: “The giant tech panic: Breaking news addiction”
ESPN REASSIGNS LEE
Marc Tracy, New York Times: “ESPN pulls a broadcaster, Robert Lee, and encounters a storm”
Matthew Haag, New York Times: “ESPN pulls announcer Robert Lee from Virginia game because of his name”
Phil Mushnick, NY Post: “ESPN has become equal parts absurd and hypocritical”
Herman Wong, Washington Post: “ESPN president: Robert Lee was taken off U-Va. broadcast with ‘good intentions’”
Richard Deitsch, Sports Illustrated: “ESPN’s Robert Lee decision was made out of fear of negative press”
Justin Baragona, Mediaite: “Fox Sports’ Clay Travis: Robert Lee fiasco shows ‘ESPN has become a far left-wing network’”
Andrew Joseph, USA Today: “Clay Travis escalates feud with ESPN in a fiery Fox News segment about Robert Lee at Virginia”
Roy Peter Clark, Poynter: “Robert E. Lee and the legacy of an inconvenient name”
CONSIDERING A NAME CHANGE
Deborah Kendrick, KMIZ: “Lee Expressive Arts Elementary School Board, parents discussing process to change name”
Kyle Lahucik, Columbia Missourian: “Lee elementary considers name change, officials say, as Confederate statues come down across country”
Mackenzie Huck, KOMU: “Lee Elementary faces possible name change”
Megan Favignano, Columbia Daily Tribune: “Columbia’s Civil War past lives on”
BESTSELLER… NOT SO MUCH
Alison Flood, The Guardian: “New York Times pulls YA novel from bestseller list after reports of fake sales”
Kayleigh Donaldson, Pajiba: “Did this book buy its way onto the New York Times Bestseller list?
NPR: “The brief, tumultuous reign of an erstwhile best-seller”
Pamela Paul, New York Times: “About the best sellers”
Rachel Deahl, Publishers Weekly: “The YA bestseller brought down by the YA community”
BREAKING UP THE BAND
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Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune: “Chuck E. Cheese’s breaking up the (animatronic) band”
Barry Gordemer, NPR: “Say goodbye to the Pizza Time Players: Chuck E. Cheese retires its band”
Andy Cush, Spin: “Chuck E. Cheese is breaking up its beloved, horrifying animatronic band”
