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14 Jan

Sound familiar? From Big Science to Citizen Science

<p>What happens when scientific research begins to shift toward larger and larger, hierarchically-centralized projects?  Risk to the output of science overall, warns <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/eeb/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colorado biologist</a> Aaron E. Hirsh, who penned a <a href="http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/guest-column-a-new-kind-of-big-science/?th&emc=th" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guest science column</a> for regular blogger Olivia Judson in <span style="font-style: italic;">The New York Times</span> Jan. 13.<br />

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12 Jan

Twitter: Just start

Robert Niles in the Online Journalism Review adds his voice to the crew advocating Twitter for journalists. His advice: Just start. He’s right: There is huge skepticism in the craft […]

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12 Jan

Cat visits live weather broadcast

A cat paid an unexpected visit to the set of Germany’s leading meteorologist Joerg Kachelmann’s live weather forecast recently. The cat wandered in and Kachelmann picked it up and continued […]

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8 Jan

Top 10 digital media trends (and what they mean for freelancers)

Whatever your opinion on the “print is dead/will last forever/will morph into something altogether new” debate, digital media is a big part of the landscape now. Any freelance journalist with […]

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7 Jan

Joe the Reporter (but does he have a sixpack?)

The headline “Joe the Plumber to become war correspondent” screams out for a laff track. But it’s not a comedy line: “Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and […]

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7 Jan

Strung along: Are Afghan fixers getting a raw deal?

As the eyes and ears of international news agencies, Afghan journalists negotiate some of the most dangerous terrain in the world, writes Ashley Walters in the Ryerson Review of Journalism […]

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7 Jan

Israeli censorship

One claim Israel has on the friendship of the West is that it is a rare democracy in a troubled region, with a commitment to honour human rights — including […]

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7 Jan

Media ban denied for sentencing by aboriginal healing circle

The aboriginal “healing circle” that sentences Christopher Pauchay will be open to the media. (Pauchay pleaded guilty last fall to criminal negligence, after he drunkenly left his young daughters outside […]

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7 Jan

Reporting is king, all the rest is merely packaging

“The quality of the journalism we receive is only as good as the number of boots we have on the ground, worldwide, at every level,” writes Larry Cornies, journalism professor […]

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6 Jan

Online comments about Israel too hot for G&M

The Globe and Mail has closed comments on stories about Middle East issues, from the Gaza invasion by Israel to news that an Ontario union is seeking to bar Israeli […]

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