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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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26 Mar

Media outlets react to newspaper data

Media in Canadatakes a look at how various national media have interpreted and reacted to the Newspaper Audience Databank (NADbank)’s annual study on readership levels.

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26 Mar

The Journal of Magazine and New Media Research

The Journal of Magazine and New Media Research is a biannual electronic journal published by the Magazine Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The focus […]

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26 Mar

The end of LIFE as we know it

Time Inc. has decided to stop publication of LIFE magazine as a newspaper supplement, but still plans to launch a major Web portal tohouse its entire collection of 10 million […]

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26 Mar

An experiment in wiki-journalism

Jay Rosen, the NYU prof behind the popular journalism blog PressThink, is launching an experimental wiki site called AssignmentZero. The first group project is a story on how the Internet […]

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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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