May 26, 2010 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
Before the newspaper industry actually makes it to the media graveyard, experts predict another medium (television) may face the Reaper as well. In his blog “Reflections of a Newsosaur,” Alan Mutter, a media and technology...
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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 21, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Natascha Fioretti
Adrian Michaels, Group Foreign Editor with the Telegraph Media Group, discusses winning strategies behind the printed press and the Web. Profitable English daily the Telegraph boasts 40 million readers a month and has a free-access Web...
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May 19, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
For the Austrian website Der Standard it was only an April Fool’s joke, but many other quality newspapers proceeded to take the gloves off. The London Times, owned by Rupert Murdoch, Le Monde and Le Figaro as well as the Axel Springer AG...
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May 18, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Natascha Fioretti
Paul Steiger, Wall Street Journal icon and now editor-in-chief of Pulitzer-winning news site ProPublica, discusses the changing face of journalism. Paul Steiger has dedicated much of his life to print journalism. The sixty-eight-year-old...
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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 28, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Tina Bettels
Interview with Bruno Ingemann, consultant and lecturer at the Danish School of Journalism. How do you think journalism will change in the next 10 years? There will definitely be more interaction with the public – we’re only...
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April 20, 2010 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
New study explores ideological segregation on the Web. According to David Brooks of the New York Times, “In the mid-20th century, Americans got most of their news through a few big networks and mass-market magazines. People were...
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April 15, 2010 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
The 210-year-old Library of Congress will begin archiving Tweets. Twitter, the blogging service responsible for popularizing 140-character microblips of “information” (define loosely), will join the ranks of culturally...
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