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Views of the News: Benghazi Blackout?; Kurtz Apologizes; New Competitors; Yesterday's News

KBIA | By Mike McKean
Published May 8, 2013 at 10:11 AM CDT

Benghazi: Too Little or Too Much Coverage?

John Parkinson, ABC News: "Diplomat's Crucial Benghazi Testimony Heard Today"

Donna Cassata, AP: "Lawmakers Trade Political Charges On Benghazi"

Fox News Channel: "Bias Bash: Difference in Benghazi media coverage"

Media Matters for America: "Right-Wing Media Push New Benghazi Myths Ahead of Hearings"

Kurtz Skewered On His Own Program

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "Jason Collins Gets Media Bear Hug as the NBA Player Comes Out as Gay"

Rebecca Shapiro, The Huffington Post: "Daily Beast Retracts Howard Kurtz's Erroneous Jason Collins Story"

Michael Calderone, The Huffington Post: "Howard Kurtz Had Larger Daily Download Role Than Other Advisory Board Members"

Jeff Bercovici, Forbes: "Howard Kurtz's Bad Reporting About Jason Collins Cost Him a Lot of Money"

Kevin Cirilli, Politico: "Howard Kurtz apologizes on CNN for errors"

Betsy Rothstein, FishbowlDC: "Inside the CNN Howie Kurtz Showdown"

Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine: "Apologies"

New Competitors: Twitter, BuzzFeed, TED and More

Leslie Kaufman, The New York Times: "BuzzFeed Takes Steps to Expand Foreign News"

Michael Wolff, The Guardian: "Twitter is ready to be a true news operation"

Duane Marsteller, Nashville Tennessean: "Al Jazeera to open 12 U.S. bureaus"

Elizabeth Jensen, The New York Times: "TED Teams Up With PBS on Ideas for Education"

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke, The New York Observer: "The Wall Street Journal Wants Its Journalists to Look Good on Camera"

Jill Burke, AlaskaDispatch: "Alaska TV wars: GCI fires back at KTUU, other competitors"

Robert Channick, The Chicago Tribune: "Susannah Collins off Comcast SportsNet Chicago after 'sex' flub highlights raunchy videos"

Fact-checking Yesterday's News

Andrew Beaujon, Poynter: "New NYT video series will fact-check the past" 

Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor, The New York Times: "Repairing the Credibility Cracks"

Jonathan Bailey, Plagiarism Today: "Looking Back: 10 Years After Jayson Blair"

Jay Reeves, AP: "Students Re-enact 1963 March Against Segregation"

Elex Michaelson, KABC-TV: "LAPD, USC students discuss racial profiling allegations"
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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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