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I don’t know how many of you will be fans of The Smiths, or their former front-man Morrissey. For the uninitiated, The Smiths were one of the most influential indie bands of the 1980s. Their very-English, very-dry, beautiful and haunting songs were and are the soundtrack to many people’s lives in England.
But even if you [...]
From The Sydney Morning Herald:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/web/journalism-no-place-for-one-hit-wonders/2007/11/20/1195321743207.html?page=1
“An Australian journalist at one of the world’s most respected technology publishers says he was retrenched because his stories were not generating enough website hits.
It is one of the first cases where the firing of an Australian journalist writing text articles has been linked directly to the number of hits – [...]
Passing this along from the Times political blog …
November 16, 2007, 12:54 pm
Questions about Carville and CNN
By Julie Bosman
There are very few political analysts more closely associated with the Clintons than James Carville, who was a key adviser to Mr. Clinton in the 1992 campaign.
So it’s no surprise that Mr. Carville’s appearance on a [...]
This media-on-media story adds another dimension to the Pakistan power struggle.
“The crackdown had been long coming. Three months earlier, in March, GEO-TV’s offices were the scene of a defining moment for the journalists in Pakistan’s independent television news business—when their struggle against government restrictions itself became news, and helped them glimpse their untapped potential [...]
What would it be like for news writers/reporters to go on strike?
No permits! No insurance! Let’s hope these proposed rules go through, and the original strictures on filming and photographing in New York City are forgotten.
Just noticed this… Life is easy when you cut out the middle man/woman. cw
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 26, 2007
Filed at 11:07 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — One way to get decent coverage in this rough-and-tumble city is to arrange to have your own employees interrogate you at your news conference.
That would seem to be the strategy [...]
- Micheal Lancey and Jim Larkin have, going strictly by the letter of the law, not done the right thing by putting out the information about their subpoena. They not only put themselves in a difficult position but also the readers who for no fault of their own have become a part of this tangle.
- [...]
Reposted from my blog: Girl Meets World
I’m currently writing a comprehensive analysis of a NY Times story on a Berkeley, Ca. protest, and finding the task interesting because some of the story was left out. My job is to see what was written and what was left out and discern if the story is an [...]