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The search results below show headlines from Fox News and MSNBC for the keyword “Santa Barbara.” Do you see any evidence of omission bias?  

Just in time for graduation, LinkedIn Editor Isabelle Roughol recently published data collected from more than 80 LinkedIn Influencers who offered what advice they would give to their 22-year-old selves. Knowing what they know now, several participants who work in media offered nuggets of wisdom. Take Arianna Huffington, for example. She told LinkedIn that she … Continue reading Insight for Aspiring Journalists from LinkedIn Influencers

Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus Virtual Reality (VR), just sold his startup to Facebook for $2 billion in cash and stocks. To pursue a business venture around the VR headset he designed called the Oculus Rift, he 21-year-old dropped out of California State University, Long Beach. He was an aspiring tech journalist as well as … Continue reading Former CSULB Journalism Student Sells Virtual Reality Company To Facebook For $2 Billion

The International Revenue Service issued a six-page report with guidelines on how virtual currencies like Bitcoin are being regulated in the same way as stock or bond purchases. According to a report by Ars Technica, “That would make it roughly analogous to a stock, bond, or piece of real estate whose value fluctuates over time … Continue reading IRS Considers Virtual Currency Bitcoin Similar To Stock, Bond Holdings

Google is moving toward “a global expansion of privacy technology designed to thwart surveillance by government intelligence agencies, police and hackers” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/03/12/google-is-encrypting-search-worldwide-thats-bad-for-the-nsa-and-china/?wpisrc=nl_eve Discovered this neat site today – http://www.newswhip.com is a “people powered news” site ranks stories based on “social velocity.” Writers can check how viral their online articles are. The site also ranks writers … Continue reading Google Search Encryption, ‘Social Velocity’ and the NSA Using Facebook

Below are links to stories on a connection between First Look Media, the United States government and combined influence over Ukrainian opposition groups (specifically as sources of funding for these groups). These stories also point to the problematic situation of when journalists engage in self-censorship, beholden to the ownership of the outlet they report through.

“The Essence Of Journalism is a Discipline of Verification.” An interpretation of journalism being “a discipline of verification” is that it is both the act of renouncing the illegitimate assumption that journalists are able to maintain complete objectivity (and are, then, not truly human) and the act of acknowledging the profession as one of upholding … Continue reading Deck of the Day: ‘Journalism is a Discipline Of Verification’

This deck from SlideShare offers tactics for successfully pitching overworked, over-caffeinated journalists.

Finally curious enough to see for myself what the fuss is over “House of Cards,” I turned on Netflix and queued up the first episode of Season 1 yesterday. Seven episodes later, I’m starting to get why this online-only series has people hooked. Spoiler alert: Kate Mara’s character, journalist Zoe Barnes, leaves her job at … Continue reading House of Cards’ Slugline: A Techie Journo’s Dream?

American journalist and author George Packer explored the impact of Amazon on book publishing and sales in this article, appearing today in The New Yorker: “Is Amazon Bad For Books?” Here is an excerpt: When I spoke with Grandinetti, he expressed sympathy for publishers faced with upheaval. “The move to people reading digitally and buying … Continue reading George Packer Questions Amazon’s Impact on Books