By Rachel McCubbin I’ve always been an avid reader of the comments section, but never a poster. Yet as more and more online publications ban comments in an effort to cut down on “negativity, hate speech and general trollish behaviors,” it became apparent that I am in the minority for believing comments have a place […]
By Rachel McCubbin They tell us that the truth is subject to interpretation, that hundreds of people could have different accounts of the same event and that they could all be true. But journalists claim to do their best to find the absolute truth. Or at least claim that they do justice to all the […]
The Daily Beast, born and bred online, definitely has a visually stimulating layout. Unlike its print oriented counterparts, the homepage isn’t laid out like a virtual newspaper. It is full of moving and shifting graphics with large headlines and photo slideshows. But once you click on a page, the story itself doesn’t usually have much […]
With all this news coverage of Ukraine and Russian forces in the former Soviet country, reporters have to overcome an inherent problem: most Americans don’t know all the different towns and areas of the eastern European nation. Most people who are caught up on current events could probably tell you where Crimea is because of […]
News is increasingly depending on social media to cover breaking news. In the case of the stabbing at Franklin Regional Senior High School that happened on Wednesday, The Daily Beast utilized tweets in its article. A tweet that has gone viral is by Nate Scimio, a student at the high school. He tweeted a selfie […]
Carolyn doing a mundane task in the library was an opportunity to practice the five shot technique.
The Daily Beast has a series of articles and accompanying videos for a section called Mothers of Invention, which appears to have been started over two years ago. The series is a partnership with Woman in the World, a website that shares a domain name with The Daily Beast (thedailybeast.com/witw.html). Mothers of Invention is sponsored […]
Readers know that The Daily Beast likes its sass and attitude, but is it possible that the online news source can take it too far? A story about mandatory vaccinations in Croatia was chock full of opinion, but was under the Tech + Health beat and was not identified as an opinion article. The author […]
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