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Written June 14, 2008 in journalism, news, news business

I think that front page says it all. Kudos to the Gazette for managing to still put out a good product both online and in print despite being directly affected by the flooding.
Good thing I’m moving closer to that area soon…*gulp*

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Written April 26, 2008 in Sunday

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:
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ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D.; Reps. Artur Davis, D-Ala., and Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas.
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CBS’ “Face the Nation” — David Axelrod, campaign adviser for Barack Obama; Howard Wolfson, campaign adviser for Hillary Rodham Clinton; Roger Mudd, author of a book on [...]

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Written April 16, 2008 in Barack Obama, journalism, news

So says Online Journalism Review editor Robert Niles. Niles says this in the wake of the huge stink made over Barack Obama’s comments at a recent gathering where journalists were not allowed.
Huffington Post writer Mayhill Flower was there, she recorded what Obama said and the rest is very recent history. What’s funny is that the [...]

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Written April 16, 2008 in Interactive, journalism, media

One year ago Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and wounded many more at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. Today news outlets are remembering the fallen students and presenting features related to the massacre and what can be done to perhaps prevent something like this from happening again. Here’s a quick round up of some of [...]

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Written April 14, 2008 in journalism, media, news

Everything I just said, I take it back. We’re all doomed.*
Other reads for today:

How to use RSS feeds and social media for news gathering
Citizen Journalists Get Syndie Show: YouNewsTV
Sun-Sentinel’s Tom Jicha on MTV’s ‘The Paper’ - Yes, reality TV coming to journalism. *Cough*, sound that doom bell again.
Geneva Overholser to lead USC Annenberg’s School of [...]

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Written April 14, 2008 in journalism

I surely hope not.
That’s the question posed on the Britannica Blog’s extremely lengthy, multiple-post spanning forum, Are Newspapers Doomed? (Do We Care?): Newspapers and the Net Forum. Yeah, that was a mouthful.
Like I said, this is a lengthy read spread out over nine posts. The posts are written by various journalism and new media heavyweights [...]

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Time for a little levity, though painful levity.

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Written April 13, 2008 in Sunday, journalism, news

I think this will be something of a feature I want to do once or twice a week. Just a quick round up of the current online feature or breaking news stories using some sort of online-exclusive component. This could be anything; a flash piece, audio, video, graphic or even clever use of photos.

Catholic Views, [...]

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Written April 12, 2008 in news, news business

The LA Times has en excellent photo gallery of the Newseum opening in D.C. yesterday.

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Written April 11, 2008 in news

Bob Collins, of Minnesota Public Radio’s News Cut blog, shows us that sometimes a rod is just a rod.
See, what’s again turning a non-story into a story just clogs the news-o-sphere. Hey, I’m no Cheney fan either, but common sense would dictate that if there were something malicious or incriminating reflected in his sunglasses they [...]

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Written April 11, 2008 in journalism, media, news business

According to LA Observed:
Just passing along what I was told this morning from a possibly good source — no confirmation, no independent reporting, no warranty implied. But my contact travels in the right circles to have picked up the scent and reports hearing from “three excellent sources (all with first hand information)” that David Geffen [...]

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Written April 11, 2008 in journalism, media

You’ve probably already seen this, but since I had a copy I figured I would share this amusing mistake from the NY Times a few weeks ago.

D’oh!
If anyone has a copy of the correction that probably ran the following Monday, please share.
I know, I know, this sort of thing happens even to the best of [...]

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Written April 10, 2008 in journalism, news

In the wake of a lawsuit from corporate shareholders, Cox Enterprises, the owners of the Daytona Beach News-Journal announced today that they would put the paper on the market. From the Orlando Sentinel:
A sale of the newspaper has become the only option in light of the latest legal loss against Cox Enterprises, the Atlanta-based corporate [...]

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Written April 10, 2008 in journalism, news

Update (9:10 a.m.): Gen. David Petraeus and Co. are doing a press briefing from the Newseum right now. It looks like they are on Jeopardy. “We’ll take ‘Horrible Quagmires’ for $1000 Alex.”

The $450 million Newseum is opening in Washington D.C. this Friday. For some reason, I have mixed feelings about this place. On the one [...]

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Written April 9, 2008 in article, links

Facebook Reportedly Near Accord Over Origin - Apparently Aaron Grennspan claims he created ‘The Facebook,’ soon to be associated with ‘The Huge Settlement.’ With the company worth an estimated $15 billion and rumor that it well sell public shares soon, I think they can afford to pay this thing under the rug.
Cindy McCain is shopping [...]

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