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Nov 6, 2014: Alicia Shepard: Columbia Journalism Review: How one group is making it easier to use social media in Afghanistan
Sept 5, 2014: Polulu: Thoughts on journalists checking drafts with sources
This nearly 20-year-old article by Alicia Shepard in the American Journalism Review indicates that showing drafts to information sources has long been a point of contention among journalists and that while “Everyone knows that showing or reading a story to a source before it’s published is simply not done", the stance is more mystical assumption than principled policy June 11, 2014: Media Matters: News Ethicists Rip CBS News' "Outrageous" Cantor Ethics Failure
For Alicia Shepard, former NPR ombudsman, such action is a form of deception by CBS: "When CBS viewers learn -- and they will -- that Luntz worked for Cantor, they will feel deceived. None of us likes that feeling. CBS loses nothing by acknowledging that Luntz worked for Cantor. Why not be transparent? " June 26, 2013: Las Vegas Weekly: Journalist and author Alicia Shepard discusses today’s media and teaching at UNLV
A year ago, Alicia Shepard—journalist, media critic and former NPR ombudsman—came to Las Vegas to teach media ethics at UNLV as a visiting professor. Nov 13, 2012: Virtual Rebel: UNLV Journalism Professor Alicia Shepard Lectures on the Pitfalls of Journalism in the Digital Age
Journalism professor and former National Public Radio Ombudsman Alicia Shepard hosted a lecture on journalism in the digital age on Wednesday. May 3, 2012: Las Vegas Review Journal: Shepard, media critic and former NPR ombudsman, joins UNLV faculty
Former National Public Radio ombudsman and media critic Alicia Shepard has joined the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as a visiting professor, the university said Thursday. June 7, 2011: ImediaEthics: Alicia Shepard's Last NPR Ombud Column: NPR Needs More Diversity, Better Corrections System
Alicia Shepard, who has served as National Public Radio's ombudsman since 2007, said "adios" to NPR in her final column this month. Highlighting some of the high-profile controversies at NPR in the past year, including NPR's inaccurate reporting that Gabrielle Giffords was dead and the firing of Juan Williams last fall, Shepard commended NPR for being "dedicated to transparency and accountability" in having an independent ombudsman. |
Alicia C. Shepard is an independent journalist and a member of USA Today's Board of Contributors. Previously she was a visiting media ethics professor at the University of Arkansas. Before that, she worked for USAID in Afghanistan as a press liaison after having spent a year reporting and training Afghan reporters. She taught media ethics at University of Nevada at Las Vegas, before which she was NPR ombudsman from 2007 to 2011. She was a Media Fellow at Duke University in fall 2011. She is the author of “Woodward & Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate” (2007) which tells the story of what happened to the pair after Watergate and how they lived the rest of their lives. She was a Times Mirror Visiting Professor at University of Texas at Austin for the 2005-2006 academic year where she taught a class she designed on Watergate and the Press.
Z-NEWS NOTES: Dec 25, 2013:.Alicia Shepard (Columbia Journalism Review) has written a worthy reminder/warning to journalists to stop falling for hoaxes: "It seems like we’ve reached a tipping point. Initially there were only a few viral hoaxes. Now, with the immense popularity of social media, they are happening almost daily. We are deluged with information coming at us like a firehose—and news organizations and journalists are falling for them.".............
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Apr 11, 2011: Columbia Journalism Review: Q&A with NPR Ombudswoman Alicia Shepard (UPDATED)
When Alicia Shepard became NPR’s ombudswoman in October 2007, she knew there would be challenges—public broadcasters are always going to draw out their share of malcontents.
When Alicia Shepard became NPR’s ombudswoman in October 2007, she knew there would be challenges—public broadcasters are always going to draw out their share of malcontents.
ON THE RECORD: Mar 11, 2011: Shortly after Juan Williams was fired from NPR, John Sexton wrote at Hot Air a column "NPR Should Consider Suspending Alicia Shepard Too.": "NPR’s Ombudswoman, Alicia Shepard, was caught making a demonstrably false claim on Twitter the other night........Only when Patterico pointed out to her that she’d gotten it wrong, Alicia tap danced and eventually revealed that she’d never even looked at the source (James O’Keefe’s unedited NPR sting video). Even after Patterico sent her a link and the exact moment in the clip that would prove she was wrong, she refused to look. Go to Patterico’s site for the full story. In the end, after a long wrestling match, she finally got it sort of right, though she never admitted making an error in the first place. No doubt she, and the people who were quoting her, would never have know about any of this if Patterico hadn’t stepped in and ombudsed the ombudsman..........But this isn’t the first time Alicia has made a serious mistake when it comes to checking her sources. Frankly, I still think this other recent instance was a lot worse, though I’m admittedly biased since I was the one who stepped in that time. Here’s the short version: In the aftermath of the Juan Williams firing, Shepard could have picked any of the hundreds of e-mails and letters she received to make a point on her official NPR blog about Juan’s (supposedly) offensive comments. She chose to highlight a letter from a man with a long written trail on the web. This individual had elsewhere written that Israel was a “rouge terrorist apartheid state” and referred to our Constitutional system as the “three branches of AIPAC.” To call him biased would be to put it very, very mildly."
Oct 29, 2010: Bernard Goldberg: NPR’s Alicia Shepard is a Pinhead. And how about Nina Totenberg?
When you live inside the liberal bubble, you have no sense of reality.
When you live inside the liberal bubble, you have no sense of reality.
Aug 5, 2010: WAMC: Alan Chartock...In Conversation with NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard
They discuss NPR's reporting standards, dealing with online comments, and how the media transformation will influence future programming.
They discuss NPR's reporting standards, dealing with online comments, and how the media transformation will influence future programming.
July 9, 2009: FireDogLake: Alicia Shepard’s Journalistic Paganism
Alicia Shepard continues making her offerings to the thunder god, the American political elite, by adhering to her "belief" that it’s torture when they do it, but legitimate "intelligence gathering" when we commit it. Glenn Greenwald compares her views with reality here.
Alicia Shepard continues making her offerings to the thunder god, the American political elite, by adhering to her "belief" that it’s torture when they do it, but legitimate "intelligence gathering" when we commit it. Glenn Greenwald compares her views with reality here.
July 8, 2009: Daily Kos: Glenn Greenwald destroying NPR's Alicia Shepard, not even funny
A bit of a background for those who are unaware of the "debate." The lady in question defends NPR's use of the BS meme created by Bush-Cheney with regards to exchanging the word torture for the phrase "enhanced interrogation techniques", IF AND ONLY IF torture is DONE BY "AMERICANS."
A bit of a background for those who are unaware of the "debate." The lady in question defends NPR's use of the BS meme created by Bush-Cheney with regards to exchanging the word torture for the phrase "enhanced interrogation techniques", IF AND ONLY IF torture is DONE BY "AMERICANS."
Alicia C. Shepard (born April 27, 1953, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American journalist, author, media writer and expert on the work and lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Fall 2012 Shepard joined the University of Nevada, Las Vegas faculty as a guest professor for the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs. She joined National Public Radio (NPR) in October, 2007, for a three-year appointment as the Ombudsman for the nonprofit public media organization that ended May 31, 2011. In that role, she said on June 21, 2009, that waterboarding, as practiced by Americans on terror captives, should not be called 'torture', although she later mentioned in an interview that "I think that it does... constitute torture." On this matter she claimed she was supporting an NPR policy originated by Managing Editor David Sweeney. Shepard taught media ethics at Georgetown University to its masters program from 2007 until 2010. She also taught journalism at American University. She was a Times Mirror Visiting Professor at University of Texas at Austin for the 2005-2006 academic year, where she taught a class she designed on Watergate and the press. She spent the last four years interviewing more than 175 people connected to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and sifting through the new archival materials that UT bought from Woodward and Bernstein for $5 million in 2003. She is the author of the 2006 book "Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate.
