2011 Headlines in Review, Part 2

The second half of 2011 brought news of Occupy protests across the country (which were covered at length by professional journalists, citizen journalists, and bloggers). Developments in digital journalism and scandals involving journalistic practices colliding with blogging and copywriting services rounded up the year’s headlines.

Here’s a continuation of our look at 2011 news in the journalism and media business.

• Huffington Post suspends a writer for over-aggregation: Perhaps foreshadowing the scandal with Poynter (see below), earlier in the year, HuffPo chastised one of its writers for over-aggregating … even though aggregation is a common strategy among its ranks.
• CNN Acquires iPad Newsreading App Zite: In the race to cash in on tablets, CNN acquired Zite, an app that filters recommendations based on the users’ social networks and self-defined preferences.
• Media blogger Jim Romenesko resigns from Poynter: The Poynter blogger resigned amidst questions of whether he was properly attributing sources.
• Occupy Portland: How photojournalist Randy L. Rasmussen captured that image: An image of a protester being pepper sprayed by police has become a symbol of the Occupy movement, thanks to the quick eye of an Oregonian photojournalist.
• Pulitzer Prizes Go Digital: Starting next year, Pulitzer Prize submissions will be accepted online and journalists will be encouraged to show how they reported events using infographics, blogs, and other tools.
• Judge in US defamation rules blogger not journalist: A Montana blogger faces a $2.5 million defamation lawsuit against her after a judge ruled that bloggers are not journalists.

In case you missed it, here’s our roundup of headlines from the first part of 2011.

Image courtesy of Salvatore Vuono / FreeDigitalPhotos.net