Category: Journalism
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For New Journalists, All Bets, but Not Mikes, Are Off – NYTimes.com
A 61-year-old woman elbows her 5-foot-2-inch frame to the front of the crowd mobbing Bill Clinton after a campaign event in South Dakota. As Mr. Clinton shakes her hand and holds it tight, she deftly draws him into a response to an article on the Vanity Fair Web site that examines his post-presidential life. “Sleazy” and…
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Dying Newspaper Trend Buys Nation's Newspapers Three More Weeks | The Onion – America's Finest News Source
A recent glut of feature stories on the death of the American newspaper has temporarily made the outmoded form of media appealing enough to stave off its inevitable demise for an additional 21 days, sources reported Monday. “People really seem to identify with these moving, ‘end-of-an-era’-type pieces,” Washington Post editor-in-chief Leonard Downie, Jr. said. “It’s…
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'NYT' Reveals Pentagon's 'Expert' Media Campaign
A major article by David Barstow in the Sunday edition of The New York Times rips the veil off a Pentagon effort to promote its views, and those of the White House, via the press by the use of so-called “military experts,” usually retired officers. “To the public, these men are members of a familiar…
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Online Photo Gallery Depicts Sad Life In Post-Layoff 'Mercury News'
Newspaper staffers facing layoffs and cutbacks all around them respond in different ways. For San Jose Mercury News Designer Martin Gee, his reaction was to post online a gallery of photos depicting life in the newsroom with empty desks, discarded phones and computers, and other remnants of his paper’s recent cutbacks. One image shows a…
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newsphotoken: And Me Without My Swim Trunks
One rule of journalism: Don’t become part of the story. That was the reminder that nearly every clever co-worker gave me when I returned to work Wednesday morning. Check it out here.
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In Search of a Lost Africa
Now, three decades later, I certainly couldn’t see what remained of our house. From the air, it was all bush and sea, like a set for some movie of Africa 100 years ago. My hands clenched into fists. For 23 years I hid in America, remaking myself into a nondescript black American woman. I polished…
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Hundreds of Iraqi Journalists Forced Into Exile
Hundreds of Iraqi journalists have been forced into exile since the war started five years ago, Reporters without Borders announced in a report released Wednesday. Check it out here.
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MediaShift Idea Lab . Where's the Innovation in Business Models? | PBS
I see tremendous energy going in to breaking new ground in gathering news, telling stories, and creating community. What I don’t see is an equivalent amount of innovation occurring around the business models that will support journalism going forward. What I tend to see, over and over, is people experimenting wildly on the content side,…
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Reporter Owned By Sled Video
Some Canadian Global news reporter thinks the bottom of a sledding hill is a great place to do his broadcast. He was wrong. Check it out here.
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Blogging and Newspapers, a Lesson in How Not to Brand and Market – Blog Maverick
if I were marketing for them, I would be doing everything I could to send the message that “The NY Times does not have blogs, we have Real Time Reports from the most qualified reporters in the world. Like blogs we post continuously , 24x7x365 to keep you up to speed, unlike blogs, we have…
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Journalism in the Hands of the Neighborhood – New York Times
Citizen journalism has become the faddish name for the effort to encourage regular folk to use the Internet to report the news directly, but Mr. Wolfson had a point: many of the people whom his organization and an immigrant rights group, Juntos, are teaching to make video reports for streaming on the Internet are not…
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Peter Preston: When news is free, who pays the journalists? | Media | The Observer
Once upon a quite recent time, say a decade and a bit ago, only 3,000 or so students took university journalism and related media courses. Today you can count around 10 times that number of young people studying to inherit a green eyeshade, and there are 30 courses accredited by the National Council for the…
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Paper's redesign includes why-are-you-smiling? photo feature
“Re-inventing anything is tough,” notes Andrew Analore, editor of the Freeport (Ill.) Journal-Standard. But the GateHouse paper’s staff has tried. Page one includes a picture of a local person who is asked why he or she is smiling. “One idea we borrowed, a Sunday ‘Brag Book’ of reader-submitted baby photos, has proved to be a…
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AP Chief: Press Freedoms Among Casualties of Terrorist Attacks
The shadow of the Sept. 11 terror attacks is eclipsing press freedom and other constitutional safeguards in the United States, Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley said Thursday. “What has become clear in the aftermath of 9/11 is how much expediency trumps safeguards,” Curley said in remarks prepared for the annual dinner of the…
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Esquire Publishes a Diary That Isn’t – New York Times
After Heath Ledger was found dead in his SoHo apartment on Jan. 22, David Granger, the editor in chief of Esquire magazine, dispatched a writer named Lisa Taddeo to report on the actor’s final days. Her article, published in the April issue, which will be on newstands next week, finds Mr. Ledger eating Moroccan food…
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News – Newspaper is 7-year-old's labor of love – sacbee.com
As newspapers struggle with changing times, one young Davis entrepreneur has cast his lot with the printed word. Finnegan O’Toole Boire founded his own paper in September. He writes, takes photos, sells ads and handles printing and circulation. “I’m the editor-in-chief,” he said. “I’m also the delivery boy. I do pretty much everything all by…
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TED | TEDBlog: Alisa Miller on the end of global news
Alisa Miller of Public Radio International just gave an amazing short presentation on why, every year, we get less and less information about the world around us through the media — even though we want and need it more than ever. Check it out here.
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Handicapping The Pulitzers: Walter Reed? Virginia Tech? China? And Likely Some Surprises
A review of some of the preliminary awards, which often foretell Pulitzer success, as well as interviews with editors and current and former jurors, indicates some frontrunners have emerged. Check it out here.
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Saturday Is Last Day For Albuquerque Journal- PDNPulse
The Albuquerque Tribune announced today that it will cease operations, publishing its final edition this Saturday. In 2005, PDN named the Tribune one of the best newspapers to shoot for. Check it out here.
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AngryJournalist.com – Why are you angry today?
Pointless job in a failing industry led by ignorant people with no creativity. And photographers, who are all stuck-up, selfish bitches who think they are better than everyone else. Check it out here.