From the Nieman Journalism Lab, March 14, 2014,[Excerpt and link]
This Week in Review:
Newsweek’s scoop lands
with a thud
By Mark Coddington"The cover story of Newsweek’s return to print was supposed to be a bombshell revelation of the identity of Bitcoin’s mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto, but it’s been unraveling ever since it was published late last week. The man Newsweek identified as Bitcoin’s creator, Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto of California, denied involvement with Bitcoin to The Associated Press, and the story’s details were widely questioned."
And I loved the lede.
And Coddington's nutgraf:
Coddington reported, "After publication, we got some more details about the forensic analysis that led Newsweek’s Leah McGrath Goodman to Nakamoto and the interview she conducted with him. Newsweek issued a statement standing by its story, and its editor-in-chief, Jim Impoco, appeared to both revel in and express outrage at the criticism the story was receiving.
The full article can be found at: http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/03/this-week-in-review-newsweeks-scoop-lands-with-a-thud-and-diversity-in-the-new-news-sites/
with an analysis of the Leah McGrath Goodman story she wrote for Newsweek!
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ReplyDeleteAnd the dark ages have returned. NYT, A12, In Boston, St. Patrick's Day Breakfast Breaks Barriers, but Parade Does Not, by Katherine Q. Seelye, Paragraph 8, "The Allied War Veterans Council, which organizes the parade, would not allow gays to march if they carried banners or signs proclaiming their sexual orientation; MassEquality, representing gay veterans, said that ignoring their sexual orientation would be to deny their identity."
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