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Welcome To Newsroom Magazine
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Thanks To You We're Growing Faster Than Ever Before
Chances are you've noticed that Newsroom Magazine is a very different publication.
We care about journalism -- and we're well aware many other organizations do it far better than we.
Our editorial standards, rules of custody, and skeptical editing for everything we produce, disseminate or expose to public viewing reflects a seriousness of purpose.
Six years after our founding, Newsroom Magazine continues to evolve the online publishing and preservation model we pioneered.
There is good news to share: Newsroom Magazine is is thriving.
And some less good news: Our limited resources, both journalistically and financially, are limiting our expansion of content.
Online News Preservation
In the six years since its founding, Newsroom Magazine has extended the field of news publishing into previously uncharted areas.
We take a long range view of news -- one that considers both timeliness and historical merit.
What we do, and how we do it, was not possible in the print media era -- for our content is both timely and timeless in the sense that we share the power of immediacy with all online media plus the perseverance of an encyclopedia.
Newsroom Magazine's publishing model goes beyond immediacy -- for unlike the newspaper era -- what we publish is permanently preserved. And tagged, indexed, and constantly updated by automated sitemap sharing with Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, Sogou, Ewatch, Alexa, Facebook, and others at home and far away.
All of our content, is meant to be preserved. Thanks to the capture and storage of our content at Google, including all updates and changes, and full collection archiving by the U.S. Internet Archives, everything we say, write, opine -- whether wise, foolish, or inconsequential-- is preserved.
Newsroom Magazine content remains forever online, searchable and accessible 24 hours a day worldwide.
What's Hot Is Rarely What Matters
What we publish today is rarely as timely as the more traditional publications and online newspapers. What we choose to publish, sometimes days or months after a story first breaks, or on a subject neglected by most commercial media, is chosen to reflect one aspect of an ongoing reality for long term preservation.
From a handful of English-only readers when we published our first article -- the 1958 Edward R. Murrow speech before the Radio Television Directors Association in Chicago -- we have grown and wizened about our responsibilities to our readers and our own limitations and shortfalls.
Our most read article so far this year, The Adventures Of Bernie In Wonderland, was published November 23rd, 2009. The article consists of the unexpurgated SEC interview of Harry Markopolos in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi swindle case. It is not very interesting reading and it is very long -- but we published it in the belief that what it revealed was important and unlikely to remain online in its original format.
Newsroom Magazine's Storehouse Grows Every Day
The number of publications who devote themselves to publishing credible, responsible and probative content for posterity has dwindled.
Today Newsroom Magazine publishes a storehouse of credible, probative and relevant content -- well over 5000 articles including commentaries, essays, definitions, photographs, stories, reviews, discussions, tutorials, and logical explanations.
Our readership is nearly three times was it was only last year. Few might come to our content for entertainment -- for our purpose is otherwise.
If You Publish, They Will Come
We are read on Capitol Hill, along K Street, and in the halls of government inside the beltway and around the world.
We are read daily on college campuses at home and abroad. We're visited from military ships at sea. We serve law-firms, major corporations, Wall Street the UK Parliament, state governments and cities with credible useful information.
Some of the world's most prestigious news organizations use Newsroom Magazine for fact-checking.
Government Information Unfiltered, Sometimes Imperfect
The amount of official news proffered each day by government, whether at home or abroad, is accelerating. Some of it newsworthy, most of it not.
Our job is to thoughtfully choose what's worthy of the attention of our readers.
About 1% of government issued news we receive each day qualifies as newsworthy. Only the most relevant, or reflective of government at its best, or at its worst, or evidence of overreach, or ineptitude makes it newsworthy.
We leave the issue of deciding which if any of these qualifications applies to what we publish up to the reader.
Formatted For People On The Go, Or On The Hunt
All of our government news content includes above the headline call out meant to convey the principal facts, action or information for those with little time to read a long document.
Our job is to carefully and skeptically choose relevant governmental content for our readers -- and to include the unexpurgated original source material, whose chain of custody we control.
Online Editorial Standards, Ethics And Purpose
Our commitment to time-honored journalistic standards and a clear statement about the ethics to which we agree to be held today and tomorrow, Newsroom Magazine began publication when the Internet was young -- 2006.
Our prime mission then, as now, is to publish non political ideas, definitions, essays and editorials.
To speak to the state of this honorable calling.
And to inform the public about those things, events and ideas that matter most to us all.
Today, tomorrow, forever.
Editorial Standards & Policies
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Tony Koorlander's One Man Effort To Tell The Unexpurgated Story Of Yank Troops Hunkered Down In War Time Britain.
Film crews were recorded as on shore from H+10 and this is where the spin starts as their film was deliberately trashed by officials after editing and preview back in London. It supposedly was to NEVER be seen by the American public and the official line was that water damage wrecked the film. Editorial censorship in the absolute sense.
Tony Koorlander World War II Historian
London
Reassembling The Normandy Invasion, One Frame At A Time
From the first moment Tony Koorlander told his Newsroom Magazine colleagues about his discovery, it was clear that Tony had come upon the biggest journalistic story of his life. What he had discovered in his investigations, wasn’t the whole story either, for there was credible evidence that some or all of the footage captured by legendary Hollywood movie directors during the last months of World War II could still be intact. If it existed, he assured me, some of it could even be hiding in the U.S. photographic archives.
Small Project, Large Opportunity
Gordon Shaffer, Gunner, 384th Bombardier Squadron
What began as a small project by a former BBC news cameraman/producer uncovered an immense treasure of previously unseen images. While Tony is approaching the events in and around his hometown of Bideford for its historical significance, another of our contributors, Gordon Shaffer, was a witness to the happenings in war torn Britain — and a beneficiary of the Normandy invasion that brought about Shaffer’s release from a German POW camp.
Koorlander’s research required the transfer of many hours of professionally produced footage from aging film to high definition video. It also revealed details about the Allied D-Day invasion of France that didn’t exactly match what was claimed in history books. Koorlander’s pioneering work has produced significant new information — partly from his growing film resources as well was from eyewitness accounts he has carefully pulled together from British and American eyewitnesses.
Newsroom contributors Bill Moore and Bill McCormick have also been involved in aspects of Koorlander’s research and production planning activities along with publisher Robert Butche.
Videographer, Newsman, Historian
Gordon Shaffer
Today, several years after being first published, Gordon Shaffer’s story [ Gordon Shaffer On What's Important ] remains tied for being our most read with Say It Again, Ed — the story of Ed Murrow’s last speech to his TV news colleagues at the 1958 RTNDA meeting.
What we have witnessed is the evolution of newsman Tony Koorlander into a well grounded and deeply committed historian. Unlike most historians, who can accomplish most all of their research in some library or archive at little or no out of pocket cost, Koorlander’s work requires acquisition of substantial footage all of which carries a hefty transfer and processing fee.
While Koorlander’s immense project has been modestly funded by grants from persons and organizations in and around the Devon area [ Southwest England ], where the Hollywood photographic unit was based, he needs additional funding to complete his film archive collection and field research. Those interested in possibly donating or helping to raise monies for this important historical effort can contact Tony Koorlander at tony@koorlander.com
Part of his own initiative in raising further funding has been creation of a comprehensive website to tell the stories that he has uncovered. A work in progress, examples of the finds, stories and an ever growing database of discovery can be found at http://www.limelighthd.tv
Koorlander On Story Telling
Newsroom Magazine readers have been witnesses to Tony Koorlander’s immense skill in story telling through images and sound. His article on videography [ Field Videography ] is a primer for aspiring videographers. Tony’s immense skills in production and editing produced some of our most vivid and interesting content. Newsroom’s Video Workshop Series includes exquisite images and commentary short by Tony at the Round church in London.
There’s also his own personal account of working with famed English actor Joss Ackland in making a commemorative film about their hometown area in Tony’s Bideford 500 movie. And then there’s Tony the journalist who writes about the happenings in Britain and the travail of a nation caught in the world financial mess and having to deal with elitism in Parliament where MPs have treated themselves to unearned perks and wrongful reimbursements. Only last summer, Tony assured us,
As I observe the lying, cheating and general lack of accountability within those bastions of our culture where all responsibility for the progress of society’s well being is lodged, an understanding of the harsh realities of present day ’spun’ life hits home. Time progresses, we observe pillars of the community becoming the pillocks of the community ( that is the idiots – for those who are unfamiliar with olde English terminology ) and the spectre of hope and reason drowning within the quagmire of greed and convenience-speak.
Connecting Small Pieces Into A New Tapestry
Vintage Koorlander
- Making Good Into Mediocre
- The World Sees Itself Through Our Lens
- Field Videography Brings News To Life
- Story Telling: A Collaborative Adventure
- Day Of The Knights Templar
- A Man Called Joss
- Bideford 500 — The Movie
- World News At A World Class Standard
- America: Land Of The Free?
- From Newborn To Wrinklies
- Pillars To Pillocks
- Democracy At The Brink
Then there’s Tony the historian — a man who goes about reconstructing history with an eye toward providing exciting new evidence while preserving the evidence for generations to come. So, when Tony has news, or comes across a new and exciting discovery, we’re often the first to hear about it in enthusiastic language filled with code words and equipment names long forgotten. Here’s a sample of a Koorlander update email to us last spring:
I can only figure that LCI(88)L was doing a rotary trip out to the mother troop ship and back to shore … in which case, much of the story could be true .. the first wave of demolition guys went in at H+05 according to Wes Ross … LCI(88)L must have been part of the initial wave landing at H+15 when the demolition teams of 146ECB and 299ECB accompanied by NCDUs had landed and removed their assigned 200 yd gaps of beach obstacles.
The follow on landings missed the demolition cleared areas by up to 200 yds, despite flares, smoke and attempts at radio contact due to their misjudging of the cross currents. Film crews were supposedly on shore from H+10 and this is where the spin starts as their film was deliberately trashed by officials after it was previewed back in London. It supposedly was to NEVER be seen by the American public. Editorial censorship in the absolute sense.
So .. the initial wave – indeed as Wes recalls, did not meet a scenario as horrific as the follow on … and it looks like the early landings were more of a surprise to the Germans than thought. A full time job to try and unravel this one … I think I’ll need a load more research before I can go further – in the meantime – the DVD series must get finished.
Koorlander As Historian
Today Tony Koorlander demonstrates what it takes to be a responsible adult — someone willing to do for his community what it cannot do for itself. Tony’s determination to do what’s right for his community is legendary. For from the moment of his BBC training until today, Koorlander is well grounded, probative, relevant and always credible. Only last month he helped to pull together media facilities for the giant Appledore Book Festival. And even in that role, he took time to talk about his World War II historical project and his dreams of preserving the history of Americans and Britons caught in war.