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“If newspapers stop covering the world, I fear we will end up with a microscopic...”
– Pamela Constable (Washington Post correspondent)
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December 2009
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“New media to me means “whatever’s next.” If that means having a Twitter account,...”
– Ruminating on new media’s meaning - Paul Balcerak
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November 2009
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WatchWatch
Fantastic video by RIPO Visuals - 10 Days: a study of news headlines taken from the BBC News Online between May 6-15th, 2009. Not sure what the music is but it sounds a lot like The Books. (h/t @timesjoanna)
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October 2009
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'Blog networks still need to follow journalism...
The well-respected technology website ZDNet fell over its own feet last week when one of its bloggers - Richard Koman, a lawyer and writer - wrote a post accusing Yahoo! of handing over the details of 200,000 of its Iranian users to the government in Tehran. The claim was based on a translation of a post in Farsi from the particularly unreliable-looking Iranian Students Solidarity blog - and...
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I’m reading Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 at the moment and I came across this little gem from the madman: “Well… shit, what can I say? Objective Journalism is a hard thing to come by these days. We all yearn for it, but who can point the way? […] Don’t bother to look for it here - not under any byline of mine; or anyone...
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Finally read Elizabeth Rubin’s profile on Hamid Karzai from the weekend’s New York Times that @strickvl, @joshuafoust and @AfPakChannel all recommended. I thought the second par really nailed the current state of politics in Afghanistan: At my table, an elderly Helmandi engineer described how awful things were in his region — families killed in coalition airstrikes, villages overrun...
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“Journalism is just an infinitely more intricate and democratic procedure than it...”
– Jon Snow, in a speech to the Association for Journalism Education.
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