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26 Mar

TV-hospital relationships very cozy

Trudy Lieberman, director of the health and medical reporting program in the graduate school of journalism at City University of New York, and a contributing editor of Columbia Journalism Review, […]

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26 Mar

Women’s mags “hottest” in 2006

Online Media Daily’s George Simpson reports that most of Adweek’s annual Top 10 list of America’s “hottest” magazines consists of women’s titles. Simpson has two conflicting theories on this trend: […]

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26 Mar

Eichenwald’s “weird checkbook journalism”

Slate writer Jack Shafer reports on the latest developments in the Kurt Eichenwald case. In late 2005, Eichenwald wrote a piece for The New York Times about child pornography. He […]

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26 Mar

The public interest differs from what interests the public

The Times of London reporter Dan Sabbagh attempts to define the public’s interest in the wake of two British trials dealing with celebrity privacy. Sabbagh does not believe“the public interest […]

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26 Mar

Mags here to stay

Nicole Oncina, a journalism student at Columbia and writer for New York Review of Magazines, lists “the five reasons why magazines are here to stay.”

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25 Mar

Why should audiences buy the cow if they get the milk for free?

Toronto Star columnist Antonia Zerbisias reacts to the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s State of the News Media 2007 report, which details the dwindling circulation and viewership numbers of news […]

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25 Mar

Dan Rather says journalism has “lost its guts”

Former CBS broadcaster Dan Rather proclaimed that journalism “in some ways lost its guts” at a recent keynote speech, reports Daniel Terdiman of CNET News.com. Rather, who stepped down from […]

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25 Mar

Greed “devastating” news industry

Joe Rothstein, editor of U.S. Politics Today, contends that greed has led to the current decline in newspaper quality and readership.

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25 Mar

Assignment Zero jumps on citizen journalism bandwagon

David Carr, The New York Times’s media writer, reports on the new website Assignment Zero, a collaboration between Wired magazine and NewAssignment.net. Assignment Zero “intends to use not only the […]

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24 Mar

Growth of free newspapers slows down

Free newspapers, the fastest growing segment in the newspaper industry, experienced readership declines last year for the first time. Readership of Toronto’s two major freebies, Metro and 24 Hours, fell […]

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