Tag: Journalism
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BarCampOrlando: “What kind of journalism would you pay to support?” | Etan Horowitz
BarCampOrlando: “What kind of journalism would you pay to support?” via BarCampOrlando: “What kind of journalism would you pay to support?” | Etan Horowitz. http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js
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The 2009 Conference on the Future of Chicago Media
Coming in June. Don’t Miss these Panels. More info coming soon. The 2009 Conference on the Future of Chicago Media. http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js
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ProPublica | Eye on the Bailout
ProPublica | Eye on the Bailout. From pro to am, journalist to citizen journalist, here is a resource from the nonprofit ProPublica that puts transparency into the bailout process. From a widget that lets you see if your bank is getting money, to a timeline showing how got where we are now, to a searchable…
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If You Don’t Like the News …Dave Winer’s two cents
If you don’t like the news… (Scripting News). I would also say to the assembled educators — you owe it to the next generations, who you serve, to prepare them for the world they will live in as adults, not the world we grew up in. Teach all of them the basics of journalism, no…
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Metadata and Semantic Tags to the Rescue of News Business?
Image by biverson via Flickr Jeff Jarvis’ idea that news organizations agree on some tags and then tag news as “orignal reporting,” maybe with other tags like “edited,” or something, would help readers and search engines. Now the “decider” for news is usually just recency. The idea of rewarding the original version of a story,…
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How People Pay Attention: PEJ New Media Index
PEJ (Project for Excellence in Journalism) tracks the topics that New Media, including bloggers cover each week. Not surprisingly, the first order of coverage went to AIG bonuses and the financial crisis. The next biggest story was a “news of the weird” story about a teenager’s prank (see below.) I wrote a short tidbit about…
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Sun-Times Media files for bankruptcy | Crain’s Chicago Business
Image via Wikipedia Sun-Times Media Group Inc., which also owns dozens of suburban newspapers, filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Delaware court — the fifth newspaper publisher to seek protection from creditors in recent months. The company listed $479 million in assets and $801 million in debt. The largest unsecured creditors are newsprint vendors;…
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CUNY Journalism goes “trackless”
Image by biverson via Flickr This is a good idea. Not even ahead of its time. This is what the schools should have done several years ago. Better late, than never. Jeff Jarvis in buzzmachine says, “At CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism we just told the students that they no longer need to commit to…
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Photojournalism as art, or not
Mannie Garcia’s Obama Image – Journalism as Art – NYTimes.com. http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js
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What do journalism students really need today? Poynter event Monday — contentious.com
From Amy Gahran’s contentious.com blog: On Monday, Mar. 23, 1 pm EDT, the Poynter Institute will host a live online chat: What Do College Journalism Students Need to Learn? It was spurred by a recent (and excellent) post by my Tidbits colleague Maurreen Skowran, Reimagining J-School Programs in Midst of Changing News Industry, which attracted…
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