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dkubiske

Freelance journalist currently living in Brazil. Taught journalism at Mason 2006-2008. And am still interested in helping new journalists understand the importance of looking at how global and local events are linked.

Homepage: http://worldjournalism.wordpress.com

First posted at Journalism, Journalists and the World. Many thanks to Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing for pointing out this great CNN story about “newspaper landlords” who rent the want-ads by the minute. Is this the wave of the future of newspaper readers?

Apr
05
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First posted at Journalism, Journalists and the World. The article below was posted on boosharticles.com today. Too bad there is no such country as the Dominican Republic of Congo Ordinarily such a glaring error by the writer would be caught by the editor. But I am willing to bet all the money in my pocket against […]

First posted at DC SPJ. Storify is a great resource to assemble social media postings into a coherent story. Andy Carvin of NPR has been in the forefront of working social media to tell the story of the Arab uprisings. His latest example is a Storify posting that quickly debunked an assertion that Israeli arms […]

First posted at SPJDC.org, the website of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The Hong Kong University Journalism and Media Center sponsored a talk by Rutgers University media researcher, Nick Diakopoulos late last month. The topic: Innovation and Computing in Journalism. “As information comes at us faster and faster, we have more […]

I have argued with journalists and cajoled students into thinking globally with their local stories. Here is an example of how a Washington correspondent for a  New Jersey paper linked Pres. Obama’s current trip to Brazil with very local issues in New Jersey. First posted at my Journalism, Journalists and the World site. Congratulations to Herb […]