CMR Editor’s selection for newsmaker links…
Transitions — The Media World takes note of the life and contributions of prolific contributor to CMR, Dan Reimold, 1981-2015.
- Poynter: Dan Reimold, influential chronicler of student media.
- USA Today College: Dan Reimold: 1981-2015. Aug 20, 2015.· Dan Reimold, noted college journalism professor, founder of the student media blog College Media Matters and Campus Beat columnist for USA TODAY
- Storify: Reactions to Dan Reimold’s Death (with images). Reactions to Dan Reimold‘s Death We are saddened by the loss of our dear colleague Dan, who touched so many lives in education and college media.
- Romensko: R.I.P. Dan Reimold, ‘the foremost scholar on college media Aug 20, 2015. · Dan Reimold, an internationally recognized leader in the field of college media, died this week. He was 34.
- Media Shift: In Memoriam: Dan Reimold, The Voice for College. The MediaShift team is shocked and saddened to learn of the death of Dan Reimold, a contributor, friend and inspiration…
Politics and media:
- Washington Post analysis — why Donald Trump is surging.
- Media Matters for America — Bad Excuses For Misgendering Transgender Victims Of Violence
From the Nieman Lab:
- New Pew survey: Not all Twitter users tweet news, but those who do tweet a lot of it
- “Behind every tweet is a story,” and journalists’ other advice for new journalism students
- A Spanish-language website is working to document killings of undocumented immigrants