[Rupert] Murdoch plans to put News Corp content, including from UK newspapers such as the Sun and the Times, behind a paywall and has threatened to remove it from Google’s search index and Google News. (“Google to allow publishers to limit free news access“)
A paywall is fine, if he thinks that will work for his [...]
OK, if he doesn’t want us to read his papers
December 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off
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No words.
April 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Documenting the return of U.S. war dead – The Big Picture – Boston.com.
Be sure to continue to number 15.
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Utne Independent Press Awards Nominees 2009
April 6th, 2009 · Comments Off
Utne magazine announces its Independent Press Awards Nominees 2009:
Surely you’ve heard that print journalism is doomed: layoffs this, budget cuts that, blogs, Twitter, podcasts, paid content, and so on. We, the deciders of the 20th annual Utne Independent Press Awards, must respectfully disagree with this conventional but flawed wisdom.
Take a look under “Spiritual Coverage” about [...]
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More journalistic evolution
March 16th, 2009 · Comments Off
Steven Berlin Johnson has a similar take on the evolutionary process of changing the way journalism is done:
So this is what the old-growth forests tell us: there is going to be more content, not less; more information, more analysis, more precision, a wider range of niches covered. You can see the process happening already in [...]
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Community funded reporting
February 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment
As a sometime-participant in community-supported agriculture, I don’t find the idea of community-funded reporting entirely oddball. I even think it’s a creative idea. But I want to see how it works out.
Spot.Us is a nonprofit project to pioneer “community funded reporting.” Through Spot.Us the public can commission investigations with tax deductible donations for important and [...]
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Lippmann and the News
December 15th, 2007 · Comments Off
The Nation has a review of Liberty and the News by Walter Lippmann. It (the book!) was written in 1920, but it sounds like it has a lot to say for today.
“There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil.”
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