Journalists pride ourselves in being accurate and on being current with the latest news. So let’s update our inaccurate views of Wikipedia. A 10,000 Words post by Mark S. Luckie today offers lots of good advice for reporters on pleasing their editors, including this piece: Fact-check your stories. Any editor worth their salt will inevitably ask [...]
Archive for October 16th, 2009
Time for journalists to update views on Wikipedia
Posted in Accuracy, Ethics, Media issues, tagged accuracy, Brittanica, John Seigenthaler, journalism ethics, Lucy Holman Rector, Mark S. Luckie, Wikipedia on October 16, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Let’s #beatcancer
Posted in Personal, Twitter, tagged #beatcancer, Cancer, Chuck Offenburger, colon cancer, Dan Buttry, Jay Wagner, Jeff Jarvis, leukemia, lymphoma, melanoma, Patrick Devlin, Prostate cancer, Twitter on October 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I don’t engage in a lot of Twitter memes. But I gladly joined the #beatcancer meme today. As a two-time cancer survivor (colon in 1999, basal cell in 2005), I know that cancer is not a sure death sentence. But I also visited my father three weeks before his death from prostate cancer in 1978 and [...]


