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Views of the News: State of Union, GOP Debates, Piracy, Paterno & Super Bowl ads

State of the (Twitter-fied) Union + Debate Sandwich


Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post: "Fact-checking the 2012 State of the Union speech"

Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast: "President Obama's Lofty Laundry List on Display in State of the Union"

Media Matters for America: "'A Star is Born': Fox Swoons Over Mitch Daniels"

Linton Weeks, NPR: "Is The State of The Union Address Obsolete?"

Cory Bergman, Lost Remote: "Most-tweeted moments of the State of the Union (infographic)"

James Poniewozik, Time: "The Morning After: Come Back, Loud Debate Audiences! All Is Forgiven!"

Sam Youngman, Reuters: "Newt Gingrich might skip debate unless crowd can roar"

Online Piracy Most Tracked Story by Young Americans

Pew Research Center: "Cruise Ship Accident, Election Top Public's Interest: Young People Track Web Protests Over Online Piracy BIlls"

Paterno Dead/Not Dead

Brian Stelter, New York Times: "Mistaken Early Report on Paterno Roiled Web"

Daniel Victor, ProPublica: "False Joe Paterno Death Report Relied on Faulty Sourcing"

Super Commercials: The Preview

Stuart Elliott, The New York Times: "The Pregame Show (of Commercials) Begins"

Bruce Horovitz, USA Today: "Super Bowl ads get racier, but does sex really sell?"

Todd Wasserman, Mashable: "Super Bowl Ads Will Get a Second Life on Facebook"

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.