Jay Rosen has another valuable rumination on his aptly named PressThink site. This time, he's taking on what we called for years "objectivity," but which he posits should be thought of as "The View …
A quick question for copy editors
If you're line-editing the story about the tourist "duck boat" collision in Philadelphia today, do you really leave this in? Witness Talmadge Robinson said the duck boat was stopped in the river when …
Do ink-stained undergrads have an advantage?
I'd missed this last week when it was first posted, so thanks to Towson University's Stacey Spaulding for pointing out a short but convincing essay on why it makes a lot of sense for a college student …
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Declaring independence from proprietary systems
I like what they're doing at the Journal Register company this weekend: Producing their online and print editions using only free tools. They dubbed it internally the Ben Franklin project, chronicling …
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As American as, well, community news
Here we are in the great weekend marking the beginning of the 235th year since we gave notice to old King George. We celebrate July 4th -- the instant of the camel's back breaking, our collective …
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Local TV news: Waiting for the other shoe to drop
Remember recently how Alan Mutter warned that the business of local TV news -- supported primarily by expensive advertising on its flagship news programs -- was about to be newspapered? That is, to …
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