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Quote: WaPo Ombud Weighs in On Mike Wise Suspension
But at its core, what Wise did isn’t about social media. It’s about fabrication, which is indefensible, even if done in jest. Our business is truth. A journalist’s falsehood on Twitter is the same as a...
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Cracked’s Tribute To Communications Majors
As a former Communications major, I have to say, I’m in no way offended because everything here is accurate. From Cracked’s 6 Best College Majors (For Filling You With Regret): Communications Why You...
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Quote of the Day: The Hamster Wheel
The Hamster Wheel is volume without thought. It is news panic, a lack of discipline, an inability to say no. It is copy produced to meet arbitrary productivity metrics. ~Dean Starkman, Columbia...
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When J-School Becomes About Business, Not Just Reporting
Hats off to CUNY’s Grad School of Journalism, the Tow and Knight Foundations for launching a Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism. Working with Professor Jeff Jarvis, the center is dedicated to...
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Community is the New Local
Question: Comparing your satisfaction with other local news sources such as newspaper or television, what would you say your satisfaction with your community news site is? Study conducted by Adam...
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Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear…as a Journalistic Referenda?
Unfortunately for me, I’m actually not in D.C. when the big Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear kicks off on October 30th. But in almost ironic fashion, it’s of course...
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Stephen Fry’s Brilliant Viewpoint on Grammar Correctors
Brilliant and delightful. Linguistics over policing. via Geekosystem
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Your Internet and Privacy Reminder, Diagram Version
Thanks to Flowing Data for passing along.
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QOTD: Definitions
Courtesy of Wolfgang Blau’s Twitter feed: “I am much less concerned about who we call a journalist than about what we call journalism” – @dangillmor
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