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Views of the News: Sports Sex Abuse; Media Effects on GOP Candidates; J-School Limits Tweets

Media Decisions Questioned in Sex Abuse Cases

Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News: "New York Times criticized for revealing too many details about alleged Penn State sex abuse victim; ESPN questioned over Syracuse tape"

Allen Barra, The Daily Beast: "ESPN, Local Paper Sat on Syracuse Sex-Abuse Tape for Years"

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "Why News Organizations Were Silent About Syracuse Abuse Allegations"

Syracuse Post-Standard: "Bernie Fine Investigation"

Mark Schwartz and Arty Berko, Outside the Lines, ESPN: "Bernie Fine's wife had abuse concerns"

Michael Connor, Syracuse Post-Standard: "Why we didn't publish the Bernie Fine story in 2003"

Josh Krulewitz, ESPN: "ESPN's Doria on Syracuse coverage"

Media Effects on GOP Presidential Candidates


Steve Myers, Poynter MediaWire: "Media inquiries pushed Ginger White to go forward with story of Cain affair"

Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight blog, New York Times: "Newspaper's Endorsement Has Been Leading Indicator in New Hampshire"

Joseph W. McQuaid, Manchester Union Leader: "For President, Newt Gingrich"

Beth Fouhy, Associated Press: "Republican Debates: GOP Candidates Try to Play It Safe In YouTube Era"

Alex Altman, Time: "How GOP Debates Democratized the Presidential Race"

J-School Limits Tweets

Prof. Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia Journalism School: "Social Media Guidelines"

Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press: "University of Missouri to Limit Lecture Recording"

Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press: "Correction: Recording Lectures story"

 

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.