"I tried, on Sunday, to come up with what a good policy is for using hyperlinks in a blog post. I can’t think of a hard and fast rule, but it tends to come back to a single basic principle that you probably all learned early in life: Don’t Be A Douchebag. We try very hard to live by that rule here at WeLoveDC, and I’d say with regard to linking-without-excessive-copy&paste we do very well indeed."

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Covering poverty: A tool kit for journalists is a Web site for journalists who want to improve coverage of poverty on any beat." – via Doug Fisher #

"With a deep recession compounding the news industry’s own structural economic crisis, four out of ten journalism and mass communications graduates have been unable to find full time jobs, according to a new survey from the University of Georgia." Yuck.

"If you’re under 25 and use Twitter, you’re not the source of the site’s tremendous growth. While we recently questioned the findings of a largely anecdotal report from Morgan Stanley written by a 15 year old, Nielsen has now produced figures that confirm the trend: young people don’t Tweet." – I'd be interested to know how those figures change over time. Just because they don't tweet now doesn't mean they won't in the future.

"Journalism has always been about reporting facts and assertions and making sense of world affairs. No news there. But as we move further into the 21st century, we will have to increasingly rely on "data" to feed our stories, to the point that "data-driven reporting" becomes second nature to journalists." via <a href="http://www.journerdism">Will Sullivan</a>

Dying is easy. Comedy is hard. Milbank and Cillizza should be ashamed of their performances in this shoddy production.