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According to Valleywag, journo-tech whiz Adrian Holovaty of Everyblock.org and all-around likable oracle may be headed to Google, presumably to do some non-evil journalistic data stuff. Google wants …
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Tina Brown's new venture launched yesterday, making this an impossibly late-to-the-party comment in today's feverish blog cycle, but I really like this about The Daily Beast: It links. The …
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The Guardian's Roy Greenslade often can be counted on for an interesting and accurate take on the state of journalism. Just not today. Today, in a stunning and sweeping mea non culpa, …
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Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I saw this on nbc.com: ...and I can't help thinking that the ad on the right - made up to look like a news update, right down to the "updated 8 min. ago," is …
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William Lobdell, who previously wrote a trenchant and sadly accurate critique of the state of papers in general and the LA Times in particular, has looked at the "Most popular" feature at local web …
Two clear thinkers about journalism reach a similar conclusion: at best, the mainstream media contributed little to the understanding of the current economic situation. At worst, they repeated the …
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