Category: Media
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Bad Journalism Gets You Fired. Period.
Via Romenesko…Today’s Editor’s Note in the LA Times explains why Erik Slater was fired.
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Prof. Richard Craig in the paper
(hey Mullenweg, where’s that “recover post” button…eh…guess I’ll just write it again and save frequently.) SJSU’s own Prof. Craig weighed in on the “Now who exactly is it that’s a journalist?” question in an op-ed piece in today’s San Jose Mercury news. Prof. Craig, who teaches the grad class I’m taking this semester (full disclosure:…
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More on the Commonwealth Club event at SJSU
It seems like they really are serious about running through the whole “Blogging as Journalism” schtick. One of the organizers stopped by our class and showed a bit of video to pump us up about the whole horizontal communication thing. The coolest thing about the event, especially given Jay Rosen’s recent post about how boring…
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Another Blogger Talk at SJSU
Next Tuesday night, April 19th, at the MLK Library: Dan Gillmor (grassroots media guru), David Pescovitz (co-editor of BoingBoing), and Jude Barry (ex political-PR type) will be talking about…well heck, it’s being billed by the organizers as “Joining the Blogosphere” and sounds like an “Are Blogs Journalism” mixer — but with reps from Media, Technology,…
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Let the assimilation begin
UPDATE: I am the Universal Oppressor (white american male). Riverbend is a Woman. With a book out. Over at Baghdad Burning, my favorite Iraqi blogger has a post up about the American media content pushing its way onto the airwaves: Al-Hurra, the purported channel of freedom, is the American gift to the Arab world. What…
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The Annotated New York Times
Whoa. Scoble does (whoops, left something out) DOES NOT think this awesome site is as cool as Memeorandum, but I side with Steve Rubel on this one. The Annotated Times throws together aggregates a page of NY Times stories along with a link to blogs that are linking to each story. What’s more, there’s a…
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Print vs. Online – A Question of Class?
Here’s what we need to truly democratize information: 1. Free broadband internet access in the poorest parts of the country/world. 2. Inexpensive/subsidized/donated/free computers and a tiny bit of training for the same poorest parts of the country/world.
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Jay Rosen hits me in the guts
The question this brings up for me is one of responsibility. What is the responsibility of the journalist, and how does it differ from his responsibility as a human being?