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The Fundamental Training Need :: The Scoop
The real problem is the way that we as journalists manage information, because that determines so much else: the kinds of stories we’re able to envision and construct, the amount of context we’re able to bring to bear in a short amount of time and our ability to connect […]

Xark!: The betrayal of the Fourth Estate
I have attempted to be discreet on the decline and fall of the media empire, mostly because I am still in it. With layoffs and furloughs announced every quarter, the consequences of being brutally honest could be dire. But I…

Why A New (And Unusual) Pricing Strategy By A Rhode […]

Xark!: The betrayal of the Fourth Estate
I have attempted to be discreet on the decline and fall of the media empire, mostly because I am still in it. With layoffs and furloughs announced every quarter, the consequences of being brutally honest could be dire. But I…

Why A New (And Unusual) Pricing Strategy By A Rhode […]

10 superb social media presentations | Blog | Econsultancy
Slideshare is a fantastic resource for sharing presentations, so you can enjoy and learn from smart people even if you cannot attend the conferences and events they often speak at.

The R Project for Statistical Computing

Archived Chat: Jay Rosen Returns to Discuss Best Practices in Teaching People to Blog
Pt. 2 of Rosen's chat about teaching blogging.
(tags: blogging journalismeducation)

Why we link: A brief rundown of the reasons your news organization needs to tie the Web together | BeatBlogging.Org
"Whenever I talk with news organizations of any size […]

The Difference Between Hard and Hard Work | Altitude Branding | Brand Elevation through Social Media
"We demand far too many shortcuts. We want just-add-water strategies that don’t require us to do much work but rather roll out some kit of parts we can just plug into place. We’re busy, overtasked, under supported, and the idea […]

Newspaper Suicide Pact: (Just) You do it to yourself…
"There is an opportunity here for a Win-Win for newspapers and online entities. Yes, we will have to pay for content, but in the same way that we pay for Google and Gmail. We pay by bartering our attention in exchange for the use of […]

AT&T: The iPhone's anchor
"And so I say - once again - that AT&T is holding Apple back when it comes to massive adoption in the United States. There are people - myself included - who would buy an iPhone today if it were available on another carrier. And now that the standard device is priced […]

The Washington Post's Masterful Online Failure | Web2.0h…Really?
"And yet “The Robert Wone Stabbing” is an amateurish stumble, an obvious mismatch of medium and message, a squandering of scarce newsroom resources that delivers very little benefit to the community and creates zero business value." - ouch. And yet we have to ask - why is "business […]

Shhhaw! » On Redesigning the Front Page of Talking Points Memo
"This week, we launched a redesign of TPM’s front page. This project has been my labor of love for the past month, so I’d like to talk a little bit about its genesis, process and eventual fruition." Politics aside, a nice post about redesigning an […]