Bloomberg.com has a redesigned "breaking news" module, complete with a Tweet button. Now, the second a story breaks, you have the ability to share it with your network. It’s a given: Social media has changed the way the world gets its news. Chances are, by the time you’ve read a story on a web site or in the paper, the news has been floating around the Twittersphere for several hours. As a breaking news organization, we understand the power of sharing news as it happens, and are constantly striving to deliver important stories to you faster. That’s why we’re excited to introduce this new feature will not only help you get a jump on the news, but will put the power to broadcast it in ...
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Ben Welsh and Anthony Pesce present the work of the L.A. Times Data Desk for the Online News Association. Continue reading →
Turns out that there's a cloud over the first Pulitzer Prize-winning story ever written by a San Diego newspaper reporter. Yes, a young and scrappy Magner White of the San Diego Sun wrote about how the skies darkened over Southern California during the eclipse of 1923. But did he ever bother to go outside to look at it, let alone witness the fleeting disruption in Tijuana's "wickedness" as painted ladies looked skyward? Not exactly. "Much of the 'color' in White's story, as Sun alumni will tell you, was reported before the fact," wrote Los Angeles Times reporter Tony Perry in a 1989 piece. "Thereby proving the journalistic adage that some stories are true whether they happened or not." Even White's great-granddaughter, Kim Jennett of San ... Continue reading →
