Though it's tempting to make a meta-joke and simply copy/paste the entire study here, here's a pointer toward an excellent study from American University released recently on journalists and the …
Did Craiglist just leave the door open a crack?
Ben Brooks has a great post that gets straight to the point about a business that, suddenly, is wide-open with possibilities again: Local classified ads. I can’t be the only one that thinks …
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What if your users actually want to play along with NBC’s tape-delay?
Jay Rosen just asked this on Twitter: So how come no one's writing about the odd and forbidding art of eluding the news when you want to watch a race on tape delay in prime time? The answer I had …
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Just enough news: Next Draft
Following on my post about Evening Edition, I wanted to drop a quick note here about Dave Pell's excellent Next Draft, a daily mid-day email newsletter that does a fine job of assembling a …
Editing the news: In 2012 it’s a bold new idea
Mark Twain didn't actually say "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." (It was Blaise Pascal.) But the point holds. Writing short and tight takes time. Which might …
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Narrativization
There are more than enough reasons to feel uncomfortable with what Journatic's been up to recently. There were the phony bylines. There's the question of covering a local community from afar. And, …