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Second Newspaper Chain Joins Copyright Trolling Operation | Threat Level

Righthaven LLC has struck a deal with Arkansas-based WEHCO Media to expand its copyright litigation campaign, in which bloggers and aggregators across the country are being sued on allegations of infringement. Link: Second Newspaper Chain Joins Copyright Trolling Operation | … Continue reading

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Al-Jazeera Introduces ‘Lighter Side Of The News’ Segment

The Lighter Side, airing at the bottom of the hour during non-peak times, is already popular among viewers. Favorite segments so far include the story of a Ramallah teen who sat motionless in a freshly plowed pepper field for 10 … Continue reading

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The Face That Launched a Thousand Drones? – The Vigilante Journalist

The much talked about August 9 Time magazine cover, unabashed in its aim to shore up support for the war effort in Afghanistan, has left many still shaking their heads in disbelief at such brazen exploitation of a woman’s suffering. … Continue reading

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Journalism Warning Labels « Tom Scott

It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there’s no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content. I … Continue reading

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In Mexico’s Nuevo Laredo, drug cartels dictate media coverage

At least a dozen people were killed, including bystanders. Children were wounded in the crossfire. Not a single word about it appeared in the local news media. Link: In Mexico’s Nuevo Laredo, drug cartels dictate media coverage

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one-year anniversary of the arrest by freelance photographer and journalist Shane Bauer and his friends Sarah Shourd and Joshua Fattal by Iranian authorities

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The Best Magazine Articles Ever

Link: Cool Tools: The Best Magazine Articles Ever via: The 100 best magazine articles ever – Boing Boing

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Behind ‘War Logs,’ a New Kind of Alliance – Media Decoder

In one sense, the carefully choreographed exercise represented a new kind of hybrid journalism. WikiLeaks was more than just a source, it was a publisher. And however it got the goods, WikiLeaks found willing collaborators in the mainstream eager to … Continue reading

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The Story Behind the Publication of WikiLeaks’s Afghanistan Logs : CJR

Although Assange has since spoken in a way that could suggest WikiLeaks was a journalistic collaborator in the effort, the traditional journalists don’t agree with that description. At a press conference on Monday, Assange said that, along with The Guardian, … Continue reading

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Times loses almost 90% of online readership | guardian.co.uk

Less than three weeks after the Times paywall went up, data shows a massive decline in web traffic Link: Times loses almost 90% of online readership | Media | guardian.co.uk

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In Online Journalism, Burnout Starts Younger – NYTimes.com

Such is the state of the media business these days: frantic and fatigued. Young journalists who once dreamed of trotting the globe in pursuit of a story are instead shackled to their computers, where they try to eke out a … Continue reading

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Time plans to experiment and will continuously adjust what it decides to keep off its Web site

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‘This American Life’ Completes Documentation Of Liberal, Upper-Middle-Class Existence

On Sunday, writer and contributing editor Sarah Vowell called the project’s end “oddly anticlimactic,” but questioned whether work was actually complete because the show had not yet addressed the subject of “Things Ending.” “Seeing this project through to its culmination … Continue reading

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