It’s the first time that the Times has given its readers the option of following a story at this scale via email. The experiment was spearheaded by the interactive news desk in collaboration with the foreign desk and audience development.
(Source: niemanlab.org)
A reporting error linked the PlayStation 4 to Paris attacks | The Verge
All morning, outlets from the Today Show to CNN were sharing a new angle on the brutal attacks that struck Paris on Friday: Could the attacks have been planned on a PlayStation 4? At a conference, Belgian federal interior minister Jan Jambon described ISIS’s preference for the platform and many outlets described a Playstation 4 being found at the apartment of one of the attackers, which was enough for the story to spread across dozens of different sites.
There’s only one problem: the interview took place three days before the Paris attacks. The Forbes reporter who championed the PlayStation connection, including new details about a PlayStation 4 being found at an attacker’s apartment, has now admitted toKotaku that he got the story wrong, entirely inventing the discovery of the console at the attacker’s apartment. That leaves us with no evidence linking the PlayStation 4 or Sony networks to the Paris attacks.
(Source: theverge.com)
Carnations are placed in the bullet holes in the Carillon restaurant’s window in Paris on November 15, 2015. (Ian Langsdon/EPA)
When gunmen murdered 17 people in Paris earlier this month, it seized the world’s attention. When Boko Haram militants killed hundreds in and around the Nigerian town of Baga the same week, the mass killing scarcely garnered a mention in the Western media.
The contrast between the spotlight in Paris and the blackout in Nigeria resulted in a barrage of criticism charging the international media with a lopsided focus. Those killed in Nigeria, like those killed in Paris, were victims of gunmen espousing an extreme version of Islamism. Those deaths, critics argued, also deserved attention.
The discussion about why the killings in Nigeria were ignored underscored an old problem: News from sub-Saharan Africa is underreported. Whatever the ultimate explanation for the coverage gap, the discussion of the lack of Baga killings coverage offers an opportunity to pivot resources toward Africa, starting with Nigeria.
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