Matthew Lee is an American public interest lawyer , author of the self-published novel Predatory Bender , and founder of two non-profit organizations, Inner City Press and Fair Finance Watch.
41-526: Lee is known for breaking stories and in recent years for live-tweeting Manhattan federal court trials. Other journalists have described him as being prone to conspiracy theories , derailed by clunky writing, unorthodox methods, and questionable news judgment. Some of Lee's former colleagues have accused him of printing gossip , rumors and lies . The President of the United Nations Correspondents Association said Lee
82-427: A tornado or a landfalling hurricane . Cut-ins and alert crawls during regular programming were used otherwise, even when higher-end alerts such as tornado warnings were issued. Advancements in newsgathering and weather technology (including the deployment of helicopters to provide aerial coverage and radar systems that can detect specific storm attributes), coupled with a few highly life-threatening events during
123-449: A United Nations briefing uninvited, posting on Twitter and live streaming the event, and refusing to leave starting an argument between Lee and United Nations press staff members and security officials. As a result, Lee's resident correspondent status at United Nations (UN) was downgraded to non-resident correspondent and his free office cleaned out, which Lee called an attempt to censor him. Some of Lee's fellow journalists said his reaction
164-468: A breaking news event: for 27½ hours from April 8 to 9, 1949, the station carried live coverage of an attempt to rescue three-year-old Kathy Fiscus , who had fallen down an abandoned well in San Marino, California , where she ultimately perished due to asphyxia from a lack of oxygen. Before 24-hour news networks existed, programming interruptions were restricted to extremely urgent news, such as for
205-568: A construction crew from Brooklyn. In 1987, Lee started Inner City Press, which he finances through Google Ads and LexisNexis . In 2000, Lee's investigation of the merger of US Bank and Firstar was followed by a Federal Reserve Board inquiry into the banks' practices. In 2004, Lee's challenge to Citigroup's CitiFinancial Credit Co. resulted in Citigroup paying a $ 70 million fine. As of 2005, Lee produced weekly reports on, and advocates concerning global banks such as HSBC . In 2005-2006, Lee
246-519: A variety of fields, most often political. These talking heads can be paid millions to work exclusively for a network. In the United Kingdom, TV talking heads are sometimes considered filler who talk around the subject. They are not full-time employees of networks and are not always paid – when they are it is a flat fee for the slot – and will be urgently called in to discuss the relevant field (in which they will typically work full-time). Pundits in
287-491: Is "brilliant" but his behavior was increasingly unpredictable and he "can ask smart questions, but accuses people of things that don’t exist." Confrontations with Lee have led to journalists calling the police and United Nations security . Lee was born in Washington, D.C., to parents of Chinese and Anglo descent. His father was in the U.S. Foreign Service . After finishing middle school overseas, Lee attended high school in
328-571: Is abstracted and indexed in Academic Search Elite , Academic Search Premier , Arts and Humanities Search , PubMed , Scopus , and the Social Sciences Citation Index . In 2016 the editorial board had the following members: In June 1991, authors Steven Emerson and Cristina del Sesto wrote that World Policy Journal is "a publication with a clear bias toward a pro- P.L.O. point of view", and that "In
369-442: Is then an opening graphic, with a distinctive music cue. The open is followed by the introduction of a news anchor , who welcomes the viewer to the broadcast and introduces the story at hand. Lower thirds and other graphics may also be altered to convey a sense of urgency. In recent years, major networks such as NBC have begun using "Special Report" tickers for select breaking stories during regularly scheduled programming, lessening
410-731: The British royal family , mandating their participation in heavily-coordinated mourning protocols that are practiced by the government and broadcasters. Smartphone users who have mobile apps for news may choose to receive push notifications about news updates. In 2016, the Pew Charitable Trusts conducted a survey and found that 55% of U.S. smartphone users received news alerts, although only 13% of users reported receiving them "often". The New York Times split its push notifications into "Breaking News" and less urgent "Top Stories" in 2016, after modifying its email lists in
451-400: The E. Jean Carroll v. Trump trial , and told Salon that 10 consecutive objections from Carroll's attorneys were sustained. Breaking news Breaking news , also called late-breaking news , a special report , special coverage , or a news flash , is a current issue that warrants the interruption of a scheduled broadcast in order to report its details. News broadcasters also use
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#1732787270101492-643: The United Nations Correspondents Association created a Board of Examination to investigate Lee for allegations of unethical and unprofessional behaviour and expel Inner City Press. The Board of Examination included the UN bureau chiefs of Reuters , Bloomberg and AFP and was started by Giampaolo Pioli, the President and Executive Committee of the UNCA. According to The Guardian , personal disputes including Lee complaining about other journalists not crediting him and accusing
533-407: The assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Such breaks are now common at 24-hour news channels , which have an anchor available for live interruption at any time. Another type of breaking news is for severe weather events. In North America until the 1990s, television and radio stations normally only provided long-form weather coverage during immediate, ongoing threats, such as
574-433: The Élysée Palace . Lee also accused the UNCA of engineering threats against him, which they called "a false and damaging claim". The spokesman for MALU, the orgnizsation granting UN press accreditation said the investigation would not "directly influence" their decision about Lee. The World Policy Journal contradicted Lee's allegations of censorship, writing that his stories "appear to harass his accusers" and that one person
615-638: The 1920s. Examples of early news bulletins in the Golden Age of Radio include fictionalized versions in the 1938 radio drama The War of the Worlds and coverage of the attack on Pearl Harbor , which was also the first television news bulletin, reported on stations in New York and Pennsylvania . KTLA in Los Angeles is credited with being the first television station to provide extended coverage of
656-520: The 1990s (such as Hurricane Andrew and the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak ) and the resulting heightened urgency to advise those in the storm's path to take safety precautions in advance made extended (or "wall-to-wall") weather coverage once a high-end alert is issued more common in storm-prone areas, with cut-ins only being used in weather events of lesser severity. Not all viewers agree that stories labeled as "breaking news" are urgent or important. CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht wrote upon assuming
697-874: The Repressed Anti-Internationalism and the American Right", Paul Kennedy 's "The Next American Century?", and articles by David Calleo , Hugh DeSantis, Christopher Layne, Charles William Maynes, William Pfaff , Joel H. Rosenthal and David Unger . Material from the journal was sometimes republished as books, such as Ahmed Rashid 's Jihad , Rajan Menon's End of Alliances , and Brian Steidle 's The Devil Came on Horseback . Former editors were Christopher Shay (2015–2016), Sherle R. Schwenninger (1982–1991), Richard Caplan (1991–1992), James Chace (1993–2000), Karl E. Meyer (2000–2008), and David A. Andelman (2008–2015). Benjamin Schwarz
738-687: The UK have said that they do it because they deem it important to get expert coverage of breaking news, and because it can put their field (and themselves) in the spotlight. Research has suggested that talking heads in the United States are more likely to be partial than talking heads in the United Kingdom. In 2015, the Financial Times suggested that with modern technological developments broadening news coverage, and with networks opting to show "livelier" non-expert comments from social media more,
779-468: The UNCA president of a conflict of interest involving Sri Lanka were at the heart of the dispute. The Board of Examination was created after Lee confronted reporters from Reuters and Louis Charbonneau about articles he thought he should have been credited in, and a history of a similar disputes. During the dispute, Lee frequently emailed his accusers and their bosses, and accused an Agence France Presse correspondent of attempting to punish him for embarrassing
820-564: The US, Inner City Press and Fair Finance Watch raised fair lending issues regarding Investors Bank . Lee and Fair Finance Watch in October 2013 raised fair lending concerns regarding Mercantile Bank and its proposed acquiring of FirstBank. Mercantile later told the Security & Exchange Commission the issues Lee and FFW raised would result in a delay of the merger. In January 2016, Lee went to
861-689: The US. Lee grew up in Europe, the Middle East and Washington, and dropped out of Harvard after two years after feeling disgust with the excited reactions of his fellow students to Goldman Sachs recruiters. He later graduated from Fordham University without getting a bachelors degree. After dropping out of Harvard, he volunteered with the Catholic Worker Movement . He lived and worked in their soup kitchen dormitory and covered housing for The Catholic Worker newspaper and worked with
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#1732787270101902-596: The United States) or contact freelance (typical in the United Kingdom) experts and pundits to be "talking heads". These people have either experience or expertise and are considered reliable by the general public. They have been common on television, and can also appear on radio. In the United States, the competitive nature of commercial networks has allowed for pundits to develop their skills and dedicate themselves to respond to breaking news with analysis in
943-457: The addition of guidance regarding the use of "breaking news" to the network's style guide. Licht, who took over leadership after the recent merger of its parent company WarnerMedia with Discovery Inc. , argued in an internal memo that overuse of the term by news channels had made it lose its impact among viewers, and that "We are truth-tellers, focused on informing, not alarming our viewers." World Policy Journal World Policy Journal
984-408: The broadcaster will usually alert all of its affiliates, telling them to stand by for the interruption. The network's feed will then switch to a countdown sequence, to allow any affiliated stations to switch to the network feed. If a national network newscast is in progress when the breaking news event occurs, the newscast will pause temporarily to allow other network affiliates to join the feed. There
1025-417: The document was released. The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) maintains a list of guidelines for broadcasters reporting breaking news. Breaking news reports often face the same problems in reporting: no footage of the incident, no reporters at the scene, and little available information. To be able to report on current affairs despite this, many networks either employ full-time (typical in
1066-511: The entire history of that quarterly's publication, there has never been one analysis presenting the Israeli mainstream point of view." World Policy Institute senior fellow Eric Alterman characterized their critique as "wild aspersions". In a 2002 article, The New York Times described the magazine as "one of the voices of dissent in how the United States carries out the war on terror abroad", stating: "The World Policy Journal has little of
1107-566: The need for cut-ins. Depending on the story being followed, the report may last only a few minutes, or continue for multiple hours or days. If coverage continues for an extended amount of time, the network may integrate analysis about the story through analysts in-studio, via phone, satellite , broadband (B-GAN) or through other means of communication. Depending on the severity of the event, regular commercial advertising may be suspended entirely for sustained coverage. Network affiliates will be required to insert their station identification in at
1148-422: The need for talking heads may be shrinking. National news that is broadcast over a radio network requires constant monitoring by station employees to allow the network coverage to air, although many stations will take a signal sent by the network and break into programming immediately. In the United Kingdom, Independent Radio News provides special alarm systems specifically to notify its affiliates of deaths in
1189-597: The position in 2022, "It has become such a fixture on every channel and network that its impact has become lost on the audience." To address this, he began limiting CNN's use of the term only to stories of utmost importance. In early coverage of a breaking story, details are often inaccurate or incomplete. For example, during the Sago Mine disaster , there were initial reports that 12 of the 13 miners were found alive, but news organizations later learned that only one actually survived. Some commentators question as to whether
1230-407: The same way. National Public Radio increased its push notifications significantly in 2018, notifying app users about both breaking news and programming information, to mixed reactions from its audience. The Columbia Journalism Review found in a 2017 study that 43% of news apps' push notifications were not related to breaking news. News bulletins have been a fixture of radio broadcasting since
1271-561: The television industry for a promo that criticized the broad and constant use of the "breaking news" term, explaining that it has been overused as a "marketing ploy" by other news-producing stations, who tend to apply the term to stories that are low in urgency or relevance. To coincide with the promo, on its website, WDRB posted "Contracts" with its viewers and advertisers, with the former list promising to use "breaking news" judiciously (applying it to stories that are "both 'breaking' and 'news ' "). In June 2022, CNN chief Chris Licht oversaw
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1312-458: The term for continuing coverage of events of broad interest to viewers, attracting accusations of sensationalism . Breaking news has been common to U.S. mass media since the 1930s, when the mass adoption of radio allowed the public to learn about new events without the need to print an extra edition of a newspaper . When a news event warrants an interruption of current non-news programming (or, in some cases, regularly scheduled newscasts),
1353-483: The top of the hour overlaid during the report rather than through the usual means of a station imaging promo or program reminder. Breaking news reports are often incomplete because reporters have only a basic awareness of the story. For example, major U.S. broadcast networks analyzed the search warrant affidavit related to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago in real time, while on the air, breaking into programming immediately after
1394-470: The use of the term "breaking news" is excessive, citing occasions when the term is used even though scheduled programming is not interrupted. For example, an evening broadcast may begin with "Breaking news as we come on the air" to cover a story that has been covered by other broadcasts repetitively within the last 24 hours. In June 2013, Fox affiliate WDRB in Louisville , Kentucky gained notice in
1435-526: Was a typical overstatement, that he has a persecution complex and that confrontations with Lee had led other journalists to call the police and United Nations security. Other journalists, including Notimex's Maurizio Guerrero, called the punishment excessive. In 2018, Inner City Press / Fair Finance Watch challenged a merger by People's United Bank . In 2023, Lee live-tweeted the Samuel Bankman-Fried trial . In January 2024 he tweeted about
1476-454: Was brought to tears by what Lee wrote about her. After his eviction from the UN, Lee spent his mornings waiting at the UN entrance in the morning so he can ask delegates questions as they enter while live streaming , and wrote his articles at his bus stop and the library. In 2012, Lee left the UNCA after unsuccessfully running against Giampaolo Pioli for president. In the Spring of 2013, in
1517-518: Was due to pressure from the United Nations. Google News said it was a glitch and that Inner City Press would be restored. In August 2011, Inner City Press published a UN internal plan for post-Gaddafi Libya . In October 2012, Inner City Press raised fair lending and compliance issues about M&T Bank 's application to acquire Hudson City Bancorp . In 2012, after Inner City Press's reporting on Sri Lanka, Syria and United Nations corruption,
1558-667: Was engaged in litigation to deem the "citizens-only" provision of the Freedom of Information Act of Delaware (and ten other states) to be unconstitutional. In mid-2006, Lee published allegations in Inner City Press of human rights abuses by the Uganda People's Defense Force in the Karamoja region of Uganda , which it denied. On February 13, 2008 Google removed Inner City Press from Google News , which Lee alleged
1599-689: Was published in Winter 2017. In March 2000, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) ranked the journal as one of the top foreign policy publications in the United States, along with Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy , because of the quality and expert opinion of pieces written on the US global role for the post- Cold War era. The CRS named nine influential articles that appeared in World Policy Journal , such as Sidney Blumenthal 's analysis on "The Return of
1640-688: Was the executive editor from 1996 to 1998. Former managing editors included Yaffa Fredrick, Christopher Shay, Justin Vogt, Ryan Bradley, Linda Wrigley, and Benjamin Pauker. Patrick Coleff, the Digital Access and Books Specialist for Duke University Press stated: "The owner of World Policy Journal , the World Policy Institute, is in a time of transition, and it was unclear when the journal will resume publication." World Policy Journal
1681-399: Was the flagship publication of the World Policy Institute, published by Duke University Press . Focusing on international relations , the publication provided left-wing , non-United States-centric perspectives to world issues. It contained primarily policy essays but also book reviews , interviews, and historical essays. Most articles were commissioned. The last print issue of the journal