US Airways Tweets Pornographic Image, Leaves it Up for an Hour

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US Airways posted an extremely pornographic image on its Twitter account Monday.
The Internet exploded and images of the tweet and the photo made the rounds, Business Insider reported.
The photo showed a completely nude woman on her back sticking a plane into her vagina.
A customer service representative posted the message in response to a complaint filed online. It was posted online for an hour before being removed.
A representative for American Airlines, which is merging with US Airways, released the following statement. Business Insider posted the statement on its website.
"Our investigation has determined that the image was initially posted to our Twitter feed by another user. We captured the tweet to flag it as inappropriate. Unfortunately the image was inadvertently included in a response to a customer."

Associated Press is So 'Over' It

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The word "over" is now acceptable to use in copy instead of "more than," The Associated Press announced last week.
"More than" had been deemed the acceptable use of indicating greater numerical value. "Over," until now, had been used to denote positioning.
“The language evolves, the usage evolves, and we’re trying to be sensitive to it,” said Associated Press editor Minthorn.
Other changes include:
"Wal-Mart" is now hyphenated.
"first aid" (noun) and first-aid (adjective)
"in vitro fertilization" (IVF is acceptable on second reference
For more information click here. 

NYT: Reporters are Responsible for a New Kind of Math

A column in The New York Times by David Carr last month suggests that online news will be a booming industry in 10 years.
It also has a long way to go before it gets there because now the math just doesn't add up, Carr suggests.
Pageviews and money are already inexorably linked.

Blind Mothers Bond Over Similar Experiences

A group of mothers in Portland, Oregon has created a special moms group. 

All of the mothers are visually impaired and have children. In an article on CNN.com they spoke about the challenges that being a visually impaired parent has when it comes to raising young children.

It is a articles like this I enjoy reading the most. They paint a picture of a person or group of people who I never gave a lot of thought to but do now. It made me care about these women and what they go though, and how they cope, on a daily basis.

To read the article, click here.

Younger Social Media Users Traveling in Smaller Circles

Young social media users are moving away from having hundreds of Facebook "friends" and Twitter followers and posting more on Snapchat, Vine, and WeChat, a survey from GlobalWebIndex shows.

Use of WeChat, a Chinese mobile text and voice messaging application increased more than 1,000 percent among teenagers from the beginning of 2013, CNN.com reported.

More than half of those users, 56 percent, reported they were active users on Facebook, a 20 percent decrease from the beginning of the year. 

For more information, click here.

Newsbeat App will Read the News for You

Newsbeat, the latest app from Tribune Digital, wants to make accessing the news on your mobile device easier than ever. It does this by reading the news for you.
The app can stream up to 7,000 stories a day. Users can customize their feed by publication or topic.
For more, click here.

The WSJ's Vision of the Future of Journalism in the Digital Age

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is the only news organization to launch online with a paywall, a model the paper's managing editor said will work for the 125-year-old publication.
"The Journal is confident it is able to continue to succeed with the subscriber model," said Gerard Baker, editor-in-chief Dow Jones and Company and managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, at a presentation at City University in London yesterday.
Baker also talked about the importance of social media, including Twitter, in raising reporter's profiles and how it's not just to be used to market a publication.
To read a Google document of a report on the presentation, click here.

What's the One Thing All Hyperlocal Websites Need to Succeed?

There is one common denominator when it comes to making hyperlocal journalism work: money. 

Local journalists do not have a lot of start up capital and it takes time for these websites to bring in advertising revenue. Time is money and for many journalists and companies trying to do local news on a macro level, the money just doesn't come in fast enough.

DeadlineDetriot announced that it would layoff its entire staff April 4 as it seeks new investors. 

While I don't think that doing local journalism on a macro level, that is doing it in a cookie cutter fashion for 20 local municipalities, can't work, I do think it can for individual websites, but with a catch. You have to give people the news everyday. You can't take a day off. Also, you have to have one person selling and one person producing content. One person cannot do both equally well, I don't think. The places where we see it working in New Jersey is where a husband and a wife team or two people enter into a partnership.

Will Turkey Succeed in Shutting Down Twitter?

Turkey is attempting to do something that may sound crazy but really isn't: shut down Twitter. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered Turkey’s Internet service providers to start blocking the social media platform. 
Other countries, like China and North Korea, selectively block and sensor the Internet and electronic communications maybe this shouldn't be that big of a shock after all.

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