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Nate Silver: polling, prophesy and politicized punditry

It is ironic that a political pundit famed for innovative statistical rigour should be decried bitterly in some quarters as a partisan propagandist. Such, however, is the fate of Nate Silver, voguish election specialist and author of The New York Times blog ‘FiveThirtyEight’. As the two US presidential hopefuls turn into the electoral Tattenham corner ready for next week’s home straight, one might be forgiven for assuming the race is far from run; Obama might lead by a length, so the media consensus runs, but a late surge of momentum from Mitt Romney means that all bets are off.

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Frederick Alliott

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2012-11-02 18:47

Never Seconds: Little blogger gets big support

Influential citizen journalist overcomes censorship thanks to online support.

No, this is not a headline from a repressive region, but a description of nine-year-old blogger in Scotland named Martha Payne, who has been allowed to continue a blog in which she photographs and rates her school dinners, after the local council reversed a decision saying that she would no longer be able to take pictures in the dining hall.

Martha, who writes under the name Veg, created a blog named Never Seconds, in which she took pictures of her school dinners every day and rated them according to her own set of criteria.

“- Food-o-meter- Out of 10 a rank of how great my lunch was!

- Mouthfuls- How else can we judge portion size!

- Courses- Starter/main or main/dessert

- Health Rating- Out of 10, can healthy foods top the food-o-meter?

- Price- Currently £2 I think, its all done on a cashless catering card

- Pieces of hair- It wont happen, will it?”

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Hannah Vinter

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2012-06-15 19:04

The killing of Trayvon Martin: how the media shaped the story

From an underplayed incident to a viral, racially-charged tragedy, the Trayvon Martin shooting has shocked Americans across the country. How did the case attract so much attention, so quickly? In an article chronicling the coverage, Poynter called attention to how the combination of social media and tradition media outlets has defined the story, and its key players, so far.

News of Martin’s killing, which occurred the night of February 26 in Sanford, Florida, was initially limited to a short report in the Orlando Sentinel, which attributed the death to an “altercation,” Poynter reports.

It was not until Martin’s father, Tracy Martin, held a press conference a week later that the media began to question the initial reports, Poynter said. The Sentinel published a second article on March 8 with many more details of the killing and the shooter, George Zimmerman, who has not yet been charged for the death, Poynter said. Zimmerman alleges that he acted in self-defense.

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Gianna Walton

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2012-03-26 17:58

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