Fascinating talk from Alex Lundry on the way in which visualizations are becoming a new medium for partisan warfare:

Looking for someone smarter than me to work with me on my new adventure.

Please pass this one to your friends, other email lists, etc.  I’m looking to fill this job ASAP, so if you’re interested please don’t hesitate to contact me.

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Deputy Editor for Yahoo News Blogs

Looking for an experienced, agile, details-oriented blog editor to manage a team of professional bloggers. Working with the Editor, this person will oversee story selection and creation of original reporting and curation for the largest news audience on the web.

The ideal candidate has extensive online media experience (blog experience preferred), experience managing reporters and the ability to create media that appeals to both expert and popular audiences.

This person must have knowledge of and interaction with outside entities, especially those in the news blogosphere, and comfort interfacing with other parts of Yahoo’s organization, especially Yahoo’s homepage.

Responsibilities:
* Providing oversight to ensure that blogs are following style, meeting standards and serving our audience
* Generating, developing and executing content ideas and strategies
* Monitoring Yahoo! and the Web at-large for story and source material
* Fielding and attracting quality tips and inquiries from editors, PR types and outside entities
* Providing photo assistance and guidance with regard to gathering, editing and crediting
* Tracking, analyzing and driving results

Requirements:
* Five-plus years experience in online media, experience in blogging specifically is a plus
* Exceptional copyediting skills and attention to detail
* Strong grammar and communication skills and command of language
* Familiarity with SEO, RSS, Twitter, Facebook and other social media
* Basic HTML and Photoshop skills, experience with blog publishing and content management systems

For those of you who accidentally turned off your Google alert on my name, a quick round-up of the pick-up of my announcement on Wednesday that I’m heading to Yahoo:

• Yahoo! To Come Full Circle With News Link Curation Site – ReadWriteWeb
• Yahoo Will Launch a New News Blog – GigaOm
• TPM’s Golis heads to Yahoo – Politico
• Is Yahoo Hatching a HuffPo Clone? – Media Post
• TPM ‘s Dep. Publisher to Yahoo – FishBowlDC
• Yahoo News to launch new blog with aim of entering ‘news link economy’ – Journalism.co.uk
• Yahoo To Launch Political News Blog (YHOO) – Silicon Alley Insider
• Rise Of A New Empire – Attackerman
• Talking Points Memo’s Andrew Golis To Head Up New Political Blog For Yahoo – PaidContent
• Talking Points Memo Deputy Publisher to Bring Yahoo News ‘Into the Link Economy’ – BayNewser
  

Thanks for caring folks!  Now back to your regularly scheduled programing of links about other things more interesting and less me-y.

How many media organizations does it take to establish that the President thinks Kanye West is a jackass?

Well, the President made the comment while waiting to start doing an interview with CNBC (1). ABC (2) reporter Terry Moran posted the comment to Twitter (3), but immediately deleted it because he realized that it was supposed to be off the record. Two reporters from Politico (4) saw the tweet before it was deleted and published it for the world to see. So, Moran apologized to CNBC and the White House, as reported by another reporter from Politico (4.5).

But what’s a tweet? That’s not confirmation! TMZ (5) was able to get the audio and posted it for all to listen. Then Ben Smith of Politico (see 4, 4.5) was able to get the video and post that on Brightcove (6)! But Joe Weisenthal of Silicon Alley (7) noticed that Smith quickly took it down! But don’t worry! CNN (8) grabbed the video before Politico pulled it down and TPM (9) grabbed the CNN video and uploaded it onto YouTube (10) for the world to see. Why did Politico pull it down? Gawker (11) was on the case.

So the answer is eleven. Eleven media organizations and something like a dozen individual reporters.

Welcome to the future!

Went on the wonderful GritTv yesterday to discuss the week in news:

News since Friday has repeatedly emphasized that the government crackdown has focused on sms services, facebook, and other new media platforms. This video calls it “a revolution within a revolution”:

Via Andrew Sullivan.

I’m not sure which is more depressing, the fact that things are so bleak or the fact that I know exactly what all of this jargon means.

Tomorrow at 10:15 at the Watchdog Conference on Investigative Journalism:

INNOVATIONS II: Innovations on Funding Models for Investigative Reporting

10:15-11:45am on Friday, March 13

(Panel Briefing by Charles Lewis)

Amidst all of the turmoil in the media industry, new economic models for funding investigative journalism – nonprofit, for profit and hybrid – have been emerging in recent years. Josh Marshall’s political blog, Talking Points Memo, winner of the 2007 George Polk Award for its legal reporting, is a small for-profit company funded by Google Ad revenue and reader donations. Global Post is a new for-profit company attempting to cover the world with more than 70 reporters paid a modest monthly fee and an ownership share, the venture supported by advertising, syndication and paid memberships. Grant-funded, nonprofit investigative reporting centers have existed in the world since the late 1970s, and now operate from California to Tajikistan, from the Philippines to Romania. The three largest U.S. centers currently are the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Center for Public Integrity and ProPublica, which began last year. But now new state, regional, national and international-focused investigative reporting centers have begun in just the past two or three years in the U.S., some of them at universities, partnering with local NPR stations and other, commercial media outlets.

Will this nonprofit investigative journalism modus operandi, with all of its different permutations, continue to grow, and to what extent is it a solution to the current economic crisis? What are the challenges and limitations of this approach? From the innovative, new for-profit and non-profit models, is there a financially viable way to more fully employ the immensely talented investigative reporters who now have nowhere to work?

Moderator: Betsy West, associate professor, Columbia Journalism School
Alex Gibney, independent documentary film-maker: Financing and marketing investigative documentaries
Andrew Golis, deputy publisher, Talking Points Memo
Andrew Donohue, executive editor, VoiceofSanDiego.org
Bob Moser, editor, Texas Observer
Brant Houston, Knight Chair for Investigative and Enterprise Reporting at the University of Illinois

Ann Derry of the NYTs discusses the development of their online video offerings.

This is like some sort of tripped out DVD extra for the new media age.

Via: Kottke.