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Kate Nacy is the first EJO Fellow to participate the European Journalism Fellowship program at the Freie Universität Berlin. Kate Nacy works as a journalist, writer and editor. Her work has appeared in news publications as well as in literary and arts journals. She served as the European Journalism Observatory’s English Web Editor from 2008 – 2012.
June 11, 2010 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
The Los Angeles Times now embeds e-commerce links within online articles in hopes of revenue boosts. The new e-commerce links for sites like Amazon.com appear within the text of LAT articles but in green, rather than the old standby blue....
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June 9, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
We know the differences between YouTube and the Financial Times are voluminous. And yes, we’ve also learned that people are doing more with YouTube than searching for videos of spastic housecats swinging from ceiling fans. But...
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June 7, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
Poynter chronicles the moments that transformed journalism. Drawing from researched compiled for their New Media Timeline – a timeline of developments in journalism and new media dating from 1969 to 2010 – Poynter devised this...
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May 21, 2010 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Has online news perverted the wit of headline writing? David Carr, who writes “The Media Equation” for the New York Times wonders the same. In a world of search engine optimization, are we trading the classy snap of old...
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May 18, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Beate Josephi of the School of Communication and Arts at Edith Cowan University, Perth, publishes a new book about journalism education. The core of Josephi’s book, Journalism Education in Countries with Limited Media Freedom, lauds...
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May 3, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
An entire industry shrinks, yet paychecks for a select few remain bloated as ever. As we’re all quite aware, 2009 surely made its mark as an ugly year for media workers across the globe. Despite the widespread slicing of salaries and...
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April 29, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Press Freedom •
by Kate Nacy
Study finds restrictions on press freedoms tighten across the globe. Freedom of the Press 2010: A Global Survey of Media Independence, a study conducted by Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization, registered declines in press...
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April 29, 2010 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Canada’s Pirate Party receives official status. Take a seat, Tea Partiers. There’s a new batch of troublemakers taking names. On April 12th, the Pirate Party of Canada – a party whose platform includes securing the...
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April 22, 2010 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) meets in Istanbul, agrees to push Brussels. The annual EFJ meeting in Istanbul, drawing journalists from 24 countries, incited plans to encourage Brussels to respond to the European media crisis by...
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