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Jim Romenesko
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Jim Romenesko's personal blog at jimromenesko.com covers writing and culture. Since 2011, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “NYT Writer defends Forbes writer accused of "stealing" his work”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- NYT Writer defends Forbes writer accused of "stealing" his work2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-21
- /2013/10/21/mark-schoofs-leaves-propublica-to-head-buzzfeeds-investigative-unit/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-01
- Report: Hundreds of Patch Employees Laid Off2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-29
What Hacker News says?
I don't know about the specifics of this report, but Marketplace last month had another emotional story turn out to be false. Perhaps that is what prompted Rob? Retraction: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/commentary/returni... Story about the fabriaction: http://jimromenesko.com/2012/02/02/marketplace-scolded-for-a... I listen to Marketplace everyday, and I just donated to both groups because it takes a lo…
Comment linking /2012/02/02/marketplace-scolded-for-airing-false-my-life-is-true-commentary/
on “This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory"”Submitted The Atlantic president explains Scientology advertorial ‘screw-up’ as a story · 35 points
HN discussionGlad to oblige on sources. Here's a copy of Nick Denton's memo announcing the investment and its relevance to the Hogan litigation: http://jimromenesko.com/2016/01/20/gawker-takes-outside-mone... And here's a Fortune story with a little more background on the investors: http://fortune.com/2016/01/20/gawker-funding/ On the "endgame" question, it's worth noting that Gawker's new backer is one of the world's 100 riches…
Comment linking /2016/01/20/gawker-takes-outside-money-for-the-first-time/
on “Thiel shows why tech billionaires are the new robber barons”Submitted An Apology from America OffLine (1994) as a story · 15 points
HN discussionBezos has been famously reticent to talk to reporters ever since Amazon became big: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/08/11/i-interviewed-jeff-bezos-... If the subject does not want to do an interview, than it is not unprofessional to not have interviewed the person. In fact, I can't imagine why even a dishonest reporter would not interview their subject given the chance, as that reporter is still in control of the trans…
Comment linking /2013/08/11/i-interviewed-jeff-bezos-when-amazon-was-an-insignificant-speck-in-the-book-selling-universe/
on “MacKenzie Bezos Writes Amazon Review for Jeff Bezos Biography”Submitted At CNET, ‘morale is plummeting and people are pissed off’ as a story · 10 points
HN discussionHere are the emails in full. Shocking stuff. http://jimromenesko.com/2015/11/03/layoffs-begin-at-national... "We will evolve. We will create impact. We will change the world." Just fuck off.
Comment linking /2015/11/03/layoffs-begin-at-national-geographic/
on “National Geographic Society sets biggest layoff in its history”- Mz · 2014-06-13
Submitted Ogilvy and Mather steals from artist, deletes tweet after getting caught as a story · 6 points
HN discussion Not the complete transcript, but at least the beginning (I couldn't understand it): http://jimromenesko.com/2014/01/29/hale-global-lays-off-patc...
Comment linking /2014/01/29/hale-global-lays-off-patch-employees/
on “Patch's new owner lays off staff in 1:39 conference call”Submitted Craig Newmark on how to integrate fact checking into news as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI didn't see that anywhere, is there a source? Edit: Found one: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/08/13/aols-tim-armstrong-apolog... Edit again: "Tim Armstrong has publicly apologized for the firing of [Abel] since then, but did not offer to reverse the firing or any compensation" source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Armstrong_(executive)
Comment linking /2013/08/13/aols-tim-armstrong-apologizes-for-firing-patchs-creative-director-during-a-conference-call/
on “Patch's new owner lays off staff in 1:39 conference call”Submitted Video Games journalism class debuts at University of Iowa as a story · 4 points
HN discussionBuzzfeed has spent the past 6 months standing up a really great investigative team. They hired Mark Schoofs (a Pulitzer winner) from ProPublica as the head of their investigative team ( http://jimromenesko.com/2013/10/21/mark-schoofs-leaves-propu... ), and recently were joined by 2014's Pulitzer winner for investigative reporting, Chris Hamby ( http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2014/04/8543804/... ), and t…
Comment linking /2013/10/21/mark-schoofs-leaves-propublica-to-head-buzzfeeds-investigative-unit/
on “Leaked NYT innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age”Submitted AOL CEO Tim Armstrong fires Patch's creative director during conference call as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is almost verbatim to the spear phishing email that allowed the AP twitter account to be compromised. http://jimromenesko.com/2013/04/23/ap-warned-staffers-just-b...
Comment linking /2013/04/23/ap-warned-staffers-just-before-ap-was-hacked/
on “How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion”Submitted Washington Post’s Outlook section avoids these words and phrases as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI actually didn't have a huge problem with McNulty's arc or twist. It was outlandish but it feels organic not just from a character perspective, but from the rift between homicide detectives and the medical examiners office. In Simon's book, "Homicide", there's a chapter focusing on a death that the coroner declines to classify as a homicide. The detective, however, keeps pursuing the case, which is problematic beca…
Comment linking /2012/04/05/david-simon-bill-marimow-feud-revisited/
on “‘The Wire’ – Game Day”Submitted NYT Writer defends Forbes writer accused of "stealing" his work as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSite-wide bans really rub me the wrong way. It implies a very simpleminded, idealistic understanding of organizations, as if all the writers and editors were a single hivemind -- as one spams, so do all the others. But the reality is more complicated than that, and while there are pragmatic considerations at play here, it's sad that there can't be a more granular-kind of ban, because each of these organizations put…
Comment linking /2013/10/21/mark-schoofs-leaves-propublica-to-head-buzzfeeds-investigative-unit/
on “Reddit’s Politics Section Bans Salon, Mother Jones, HuffPost for Bad Journalism”Submitted NY Daily News Memo: Thanks for Keeping Robin Williams Stories SEO Strong as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhile Zen Pencils is using older written quotes (it's the theme of the comic), the recent comics documentary 'Stripped' has the honor of the first audio interview with Bill Watterson. He initially declined, but after their interactions with dozens of other cartoonists, word got to Bill that they were "the real deal" and passionate about what they were doing. Rather inspiring. http://jimromenesko.com/2013/03/11/reclu…
Comment linking /2013/03/11/reclusive-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-bill-watterson-speaks/
on “Bill Watterson- A Cartoonist's Advice”Submitted The Verge considers publishing a print monthly or quarterly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnnnnd on the flip side are bad PR dudes pissing a journalist off by offering to ghost write and ending up on Jim Romanesko's blog: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/02/19/pr-mans-jaw-dropping-offe... Having spent a year and a half developing software for journalists, I'm certain that there are some lazy, careless journalists, but there are a whole lot more overworked and underpaid journalists, some of whom may not have…
Comment linking /2013/02/19/pr-mans-jaw-dropping-offer/
on “Suits are back (cf. pg's submarine essay)”Submitted Jonah Lehrer talks plaigarism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm not saying there are no examples. In the one you bring up, though, I recall the piece and ensuing hullaballoo: The original NYT author, Charles Duhigg, basically admired and defended the Forbes writer's job (re taking the story in a different direction; providing more exposure to an audience outside his own; providing a prominent book plug), and then O'Neill backed off his own "link-baity" headline. http://jimro…
Comment linking /2012/02/21/nyt-reporter-defends-forbes-writer-accused-of-stealing-his-work/
on “Apple is About to Reduce Google's Revenues”Submitted More than 3.5M page views for New York Times 'Snow Fall' as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe journalist (Teri Buhl) has a response: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/02/05/teri-buhl-responds-to-tec...
Comment linking /2013/02/05/teri-buhl-responds-to-techdirts-post/
on “Investigative Journalist Claims Her Public Tweets Aren't 'Publishable'”Submitted Explanation please, Twitter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted UNC journalism school drops spelling test, since students use spell-check as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ethicists as a story · 1 points
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