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Josh Cohen | Google’s vision for the future of journalism

Josh says in his interview with the Guardian:

“There is a lot of high-quality information out there…Not only journalism, but blogs and other services. And our task is to bring this information to the reader. So ask yourself: Is Twitter journalism? I don't know. But there is no question that it is part of the dialogue.

Is [...]

WITN?: Yahoo didn’t sentence 200,000 Iranians to death, and other misadventures in online journalism

Amusing blog post on the perils of blogging which I think illustrates a couple of things about the blogsphere. The lack of editorial oversight implicit in the system obviously produces problems now and the speed of propagation is a friend to the headline. Less obvious is the role of “a thousand eyes” in correcting any [...]

Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content | Slashdot

This is tech humour, it mightn’t appeal to many but I’ve lifted a few gems to lighten the mood a little

presidenteloco writes

Dear Mr Murdoch

If you don’t want to be hyperlinked to, you might consider not putting your content on the worldwide web.

interkin3tic says:

You have to look at it from his perspective.

Basically his [...]

Welcome | News21 | Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education

In the US even as the mainstream media thrashes around in its death throes people are still turning to media production as a means of expressing themselves and seeking to do so in sophisticated and innovative ways. Take a look at News 21.

Welcome | News21 | Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education.

War 2.0 – day 2

Hugh White talked about new media from a long term historical perspective, questioning whether “new media” is really a major gamechanger when it comes to prosecuting war. On feature that emerged in Hugh’s short talk that is overlooked in the new media landscape is the role of broadcast mass media and the difference between what’s [...]

The news you have to pay for

Ok let’s try this idea. You have a business, its core activity consists of people stringing a few words together based on information received. They, the stringers-of-words, do this stringing thing regularly and they also spend more than the average amount of time reading other stringers-of-words. Then there is a certain accumulated body of knowledge [...]

What is required?

Apparently “what’s required for serious — which is to say expensive-to-produce — journalism to survive is that all the quality English-language papers and news sites agree to charge for Web access and then mercilessly sue anyone who makes more than fair use of their work without paying a fee.”

That’s according to the Tim Rutten on [...]