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31 Jul

Les journalistes-citoyens du site NowPublic veulent monter en puissance

24heures.ch Le site internet d’information NowPublic ambitionne de devenir, avec ses journalistes-citoyens, “la plus grosse agence de presse du monde” d’ici un an et demi, et a annoncé lundi un […]

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30 Jul

Helicopter deaths: shame

The news that four people died when two U.S. news helicopters collided last week was stultifying; the deaths seemed too pointless to even mention here.  Then I read Mark Hamilton’s […]

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30 Jul

“Citizen Journalist” site lands big financing deal

NowPublic Technologies Inc. calls itself the world’s largest participatory news network, with 100,000 non-professional contributing reporters from more than 140 countries and 3,600 cities,  and a partnership with Associated Press. […]

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30 Jul

Snyder dies at 71

Tom Snyder, who started his career as a radio reporter but made his name with his TV interviews, has died from complications of leukemia, the New York Times reports. Snyder, […]

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30 Jul

CTV report on mid-air helicopter crash

Following the mid-air helicopter collision that killed four news station employees in Phoenix on July 27, CTV.ca features a contextual AP story about the event and a video clip from Saturday’s national news broadcast that shows […]

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30 Jul

Global media reporting on HIV/AIDS: survey

To evaluate perceptions on how the news media reports on HIV/AIDS, Internews Network, with partners Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS and the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations […]

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30 Jul

Corrections we’d like to see

Norman Solomon at TomPaine.com has composed a series of mock corrections that describe the journalistic offenses many news organizations should really be regretting.

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30 Jul

J-blogs now a wiki at Cyberjournalist.net

In an effort to keep its journalism blogs list up-to-date, Cyberjournalist.net has transformed the list into a wiki, allowing users to edit the list themselves.

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30 Jul

How newspapers can thrive on the web

Robin Miller — owner of such high-profile sites as Slashdot, SourceForge and ThinkGeek — groups his ideas for local news online success under four sub-headings: Where’s the calendar?; Beat local TV at its […]

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29 Jul

Black was overdone by media, suggests poll

As a reader, my eyes started glazing over every time there was another headline about Conrad Black, and I turned off the radio or TV when the news turned to […]

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