Archive for April, 2011

Apr
19

The future of newspapers? Renting by the minute.

Filed Under (Future of journalism, International journalism) by on 19-04-2011 and tagged

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?

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Apr
05

Stupid reporter mistakes

Filed Under (Editing, Skills) by on 05-04-2011 and tagged ,

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 […]

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Apr
03

Using social media and Storify to get the facts right

Filed Under (Future of journalism, Reporting techniques, Skills) by on 03-04-2011 and tagged ,

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 […]

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