Since it is Monday, and since this is the new gimmick for the day, you can find a ton of links in this post. But first, one of the best stories I read all last week: Anthony Ray Hinton free after nearly 30 years on Alabama Death Row:
After nearly 30 years on Alabama’s death row, Hinton this morning walked out of prison a free man and into the arms of his sisters and friends.
He was freed when prosecutors dismissed the charges for his re-trial in the 1985 deaths of two fast-food manager after new testing on Hinton’s gun couldn’t prove the crime scene bullets were fired from the weapons.
“The sun does shine,” Hinton said as he was released.
“I want you to know there is a God. He sits high but he looks low. He will destroy but yet he will defend and he defended me,” Hinton said.
He said he wanted to say to the victims families that it was a “miscarriage ” of justice for them too.
Bad prosecution and bad evidence made for a bad conviction. I was in elementary school, but I remember the story of those murders. Something about how the shooter put the victims in the walk-in cooler before killing them really stuck with me.
Hinton, now out of prison, said he was going to find a buffet. That seems like a reasonable enough short-term plan for a guy who has been on death row for decades.
This is a terrific collection of presidential first pitches. I pretty much love everything about that series of photographs. How could you not?
Since this is, in part, the point of the day’s post …
Linking: "not just good form, or something you should do because the web allows … It's a basic tool for" extension of trust @jayrosen_nyu
— Mindy McAdams (@macloo) March 31, 2015
A batch of journalism links:
DHS journalists recognized for spurring school board to action on MPR
A coast-to-coast newspaper shuffle is taking shape
Seymour Hersh on My Lai and the state of investigative journalism
And now a section on the Rolling Stone journalism review:
Rolling Stone Retracts Article on Rape at University of Virginia http://t.co/FyZxBcTlyN
— Jonathan Anderson (@jonathanderson) April 5, 2015
ICYMI: Here’s what’s happened since Rolling Stone published ‘A Rape on Campus’ http://t.co/DtmZYpSHe5 pic.twitter.com/QiOxKOQNjM
— Poynter (@Poynter) April 5, 2015
Rolling Stone and rape at UVA: What went wrong? The Columbia School of Journalism report: http://t.co/LgPTJc8NJ9
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) April 5, 2015
Rolling Stone mea culpa: “Ultimately we were too deferential to our rape victim” http://t.co/auheoW8Ij7 remember: there was NO rape victim
— ClarkHat (@ClarkHat) April 6, 2015
What the authors of the @RollingStone investigation have to say about their findings http://t.co/UIwFSwc2MN pic.twitter.com/AVQBeAeRoL
— CJR (@CJR) April 6, 2015
Sad we need such frequent, major reminders about verification, follow-up, multi-layer reporting & ethical standards. Seems pretty J1 to me.
— Sarah Nichols (@SarahJNichols) April 6, 2015
Rolling Stone's conclusion: Nobody should be fired, nothing needs to change. http://t.co/VADFNLAOJQ pic.twitter.com/JDZKqm043k
— Craig Silverman (@CraigSilverman) April 6, 2015
"You can't print it unless you can prove it" http://t.co/tpNUIDNcmE @IRE_NICAR's @markhorvit on Rolling Stone's story pic.twitter.com/Yriyo8oavO
— Kristen Hare (@kristenhare) April 6, 2015
SPJ Disappointed in Journalistic Lapses Found in Rolling Stone Story http://t.co/vh3o04Di75
— Jonathan Anderson (@jonathanderson) April 6, 2015
Rolling Stone retracts rape story deemed a "journalistic failure" http://t.co/ec39qVQTsn pic.twitter.com/esetodcdIj
— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) April 6, 2015
Work of journalism about a failure of journalism – Columbia Journalism School and the Rolling Stone investigation http://t.co/kSs2PuwAGi
— Liquid Newsroom (@StKonrath) April 6, 2015
"Here we go." http://t.co/BqucQwwg0p Journalists react to and find lessons in Rolling Stone’s failures pic.twitter.com/Bg6js2OLdY
— Poynter (@Poynter) April 6, 2015
UVA's Phi Kappa Psi has announced plans to pursue all available legal action against… http://t.co/PKgk4qhevm http://t.co/Hg91gaPBMx
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer) April 6, 2015
That last one might be hard to prove in legal proceedings, but it doesn’t mitigate the problems Rolling Stone has just now.
A batch of digital media links:
Meerkat and Periscope are fun apps but beware the sting in the tail
Here’s proof people are cutting the cord on cable TV
Twitter Publicly Launches Curator, Real-Time Search And Filtering Tool
Snapchat cuts off third-party apps, releases its first transparency report
‘News doesn’t belong on paper anymore’
Let’s talk about user-generated data
Augmented, Virtual Reality To Hit $150B, Disrupting Mobile By 2020
10 trusty digital tools journalists should try right now
In a bid for modern coverage, student paper tries a new Medium
The app Fradio allows you to create your own radio station
That last one is about a custom music show, but wait until the tech builds out to a Talk format.
And two quick advertising links:
The Economist’s Tom Standage on digital strategy and the limits of a model based on advertising
And, if you’ve read this far, here’s the oral history of Max Headroom. Sadly, none of my students know who that is.
