Year: 2006
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KQED | Forum: Gay Talese
Listen to Talese, who wrote for the NY Times when “New Journalism” came of age, riff on writing, reporting, and his own career. KQED | Forum: Gay Talese
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Serendipity on the Web
Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad is Good for You, makes an effort to do away with the vicious rumor that the Internet, Web, RSS, blogs, etc. have killed serendipity. For the uninitiated, or those who merely like words such as “ephemeral” or “paradigm” but try not to get bogged down in definitions, serendipity is…
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SJSU JMC Geek Dinner next Tuesday
Steve Sloan, Cynthia McCune, and other folks will all be getting together at Tony Soprano’s Pizzeria this Tuesday at 6pm to talk about plans for JOUR 163, a course on producing new media for the web that will be offered next semester in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at SJSU. Steve says he’ll…
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Palo Alto Weekly is hiring two staff writers
Mmmmmm. Palo Alto City Hall. And land use. Palo Alto Weekly is hiring two staff writers
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Colleges Chase as Cheats Shift to Higher Tech – New York Times
Story’s ho-hum, but that’s our very own Prof. Craig… Colleges Chase as Cheats Shift to Higher Tech – New York Times
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chron.Commons | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
Gobs of reader-authored blogs at the Houston Chronicle. chron.Commons | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
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Local, community, you: an exemplary news site is born – Editors Weblog
What makes a local community site useful and sticky? And why are indpendent sites having better luck at it than newspapers? Local, community, you: an exemplary news site is born – Editors Weblog
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Missouri j-school commencement speech – Adrian Holovaty
“You’re going to be the people breaking the rules. You’re going to be the people inventing new ones. You’ll be the person who says, ‘Hey, let’s try this new way of getting our journalism out to the public.’” Missouri j-school commencement speech – Adrian Holovaty
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Is ‘convergence’ the next media disaster? — Miami Herald
“Ironically, the same news media chiefs who fret constantly about credibility and the declining appetite for news are diving into this 24/7 news cycle. Does that make sense?” Is ‘convergence’ the next media disaster? — Miami Herald
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Times Are Tough for News Media, but Journalism Schools Are Still Booming – New York Times
The NYT says J-School enrollment keeps going up. Times Are Tough for News Media, but Journalism Schools Are Still Booming – New York Times