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Second Read
How the Past Saw the Present
November 11, 2011 06:00 AMCJR knew about the iPad a good fifteen years before there was an iPad to know about. In a 1995 column, Stephen Isaacs reported on “the tablet,” a notional device dreamed up by the Knight Ridder... Continue reading
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Critical Eye
Out of Style
April 6, 2011 11:33 AMWrite More Good: An Absolutely Phony Guide | by The Bureau Chiefs | Three Rivers Press | 272 pages, $13.00 Just one day after it launched in 2009, @FakeAPStylebook, the Twitter-based satire of the AP's (in)famous usage manual,... Continue reading
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The News Frontier
Who Says
March 4, 2010 05:45 PMGreat is Journalism. Is not every Able Editor a Ruler of the World, being a persuader of it?— Thomas Carlyle, 1837 Journalism is just ditchwater.— Thomas Carlyle, 1881 In its inaugural State of the News Media <a href=http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2004/narrative_overview_publicattitudes.asp?media=1... Continue reading
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The News Frontier
Who Says: Further Reading
March 4, 2010 05:36 PMRoland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author” is a classic in postmodern thought, and it underscores many of the ideas I’ve explored here. Peter Burke’s A social history of knowledge: from Gutenberg to Diderot delivers exactly what... Continue reading
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The News Frontier
At HuffPost, the Old College Try
February 22, 2010 06:22 PMThere’s a species of journalism we often forget to include when we talk about our fabled ‘new media landscape’: college newspapers. And part of that is structural. After last year’s folding of UWIRE, a college-journalism wire service,... Continue reading
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The Kicker
“The cute little program, which will be produced without any help from any grown-ups…”
February 19, 2010 10:02 AMMade for each other: Good Morning America and...The Onion. "NEW YORK—Saying they were bored and there was nothing fun to do in the ABC studios, the spunky crew of Good Morning America announced 'really big plans' Thursday to write... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Watch It Live: “paidContent 2010” Conference
February 19, 2010 08:45 AMToday in New York City, paidContent is convening a group of media-business leaders to discuss the state--and the future--of financed news on the Web. Per the conference's agenda, topics of discussion will include: » Business strategy and models... Continue reading
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The Kicker
BREAKING: Stephen Colbert Reads Cat Fancy
February 18, 2010 02:52 PMIt's a great world we live in, folks, that would produce an image like the one below. It is presented for your pleasure without further comment, except to say: If you have thoughts for a caption, share them... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Live, from Paley: What’s the One Skill Journos Need Right Now?
February 12, 2010 12:01 PMAt the Carnegie/Paley conference's session on entrepreneurial journalism just now, Jeff Jarvis asked his panelists to engage in a 'lightning round,' briefly answering the same question. That question: What is the one skill or approach that journalists need... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Streaming Today: Carnegie/Paley Conference on “Solving the Challenges of the News Frontier”
February 12, 2010 08:30 AMToday, at the Paley Center for Media in Manhattan, a collection of smart thinkers will be convening to discuss "A Way Forward: Solving the Challenges of the News Frontier." Sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York (a... Continue reading
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The Kicker
“You Are the Woodward to My Bernstein,” and Other Journo Valentines
February 11, 2010 10:59 AMLast year, around this time, the good people at 10,000 Words unleashed unto the world a series of sappy-because-funny/funny-because-sappy Valentines. Valentines, uh, exclusive to journalists. Such as: and: Well, the... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Tweeted: Columbia’s Talk with David Remnick
February 10, 2010 12:30 PMFor the next hour or so, The New Yorker's David Remnick will be talking magazines, journalism, and books with Columbia's Victor Navasky. I'll be tweeting the tasty bits here. Continue reading
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The Kicker
“John Murtha Dead”: ‘Funny’? ‘Typical’? ‘Finally’?
February 8, 2010 02:45 PMSometimes, the systems news organizations have put in place to make news more social--admirable as those systems generally are in spirit--really, really don't work in practice. To wit, the Huffington Post's rather unfortunate treatment--WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?--of today's sad... Continue reading
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The Kicker
Ironic Hed of the Day
February 1, 2010 01:36 PMFrom The New York Times, without further comment: Continue reading
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The News Frontier
Saying Uncle (Sam)
January 28, 2010 09:00 AMIf you want to have some fun at the next future-of-news conference, just shout out, to a roomful of media analysts, “government subsidy!” All manner of mayhem—debates, shouting matches, fistfights—will likely ensue. Of the hot-button issues in the How... Continue reading
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The Kicker
“We Have the Right Heart. I’d Go Down with You If I Could Brother.”
January 27, 2010 03:51 PMSupport for James O'Keefe, via his Facebook wall: [h/t Dave Weigel] Continue reading
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The Kicker
Magical! Revolutionary! Transcendent! Resplendent!
January 27, 2010 02:55 PMThis is the actual description of Apple's iPad, copied verbatim from the actual iPad landing page of the actual Apple Web site: "Our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price." ... Continue reading
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The Kicker
“It’s so much more intimate than a laptop, and it’s so much more capable than a smartphone.”
January 27, 2010 01:18 PMHere it is, folks: The Future. Sleek and slick and thus far unicorn/leprechaun/fairydust-free. And they shall call its name...the iPad. [images via] Continue reading
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The News Frontier
California Watch Launches “Open Newsroom” Project
January 27, 2010 08:00 AMThink of an “investigative newsroom.” If you’re like most people, you’re probably imagining a sea of desks, the spaces between them populated by harried, hard-bitten reporters. Most of them are men, and all of them are fluorescent-lit, intensity-filled, and... Continue reading
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The News Frontier
Economist Blogs: Now Bylined*
January 26, 2010 10:00 AMMonday afternoon, while perusing posts about libertarian health care plans, the rollout of the Obama administration’s middle-class assistance initiatives, the sale of the “Miracle on the Hudson” plane, and the political proclivities... Continue reading
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