Journalism, the World and the Future
Discussion of the future of journalism from GMU
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Several years ago I wrote a piece for my students to remind them that they should not blindly trust spell check. A publishing house in Australia is learning that lesson the hard way. Hot water over spell check PENGUIN Group Australia turns over $120 million a year from printing words but a one-word misprint has […]
Media affairs intern for the Iraqi embassy in Washington, DC. Click here for details.
A while back (April 7, to be exact) I wrote about a piece in Foreign Policy about WikiLeaks and the future of journalism. At that time I expressed the same concern as the FP author: Is WikiLeaks the future of journalism? I, and other journalists, are concerned that the use of WikiLeaks material is feeding […]
By now we’ve all seen the dramatic pictures of the Apache gunship attack of the journalists in Iraq. The film got into the wild thanks to Wikileaks. The non-profit organization has its server in Sweden and its registration in the United States. It depends on whistle blowers and other anonymous sources to get information out. […]
I was cleaning up my computer files today and ran across this piece from 2007 from the Roanoke Times. We all know the importance of getting the quote right. But does that mean running a quote such as: “Well, like, we were heading down the street and like we were having like a good time, […]
