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Saturday, May 31
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billdoskoch
on Sat 31 May 2008 11:07 PM EDT
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billdoskoch
on Sat 31 May 2008 10:39 PM EDT
Jonathan Landman, deputy managing editor of the NYT responsible for digital journalism (and a hero of the Jayson Blair fiasco), took questions from readers this week.
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billdoskoch
on Sat 31 May 2008 10:33 PM EDT
The Daily Show (disclosure: Broadcast in Canada by CTV; I work for CTV News) has an extensive Web presence in the U.S. (the video doesn't work for Canuckistani IP addresses). If you're an American, you can get virtually everything there. U.S. cable companies pay Comedy Central to broadcast the show. They are getting a mite irritated by the web thing. more »Friday, May 30
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billdoskoch
on Fri 30 May 2008 10:12 PM EDT
The Toronto Star ran a six-part series this week on the Secret Capital -- a look at how the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper manages information. I've excerpted the media-related parts. more »
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billdoskoch
on Fri 30 May 2008 09:54 PM EDT
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billdoskoch
on Fri 30 May 2008 09:33 PM EDT
"Elite" and "elitism" used to have different definitions, but in the faux populism of U.S. politics today, either word is used to denigrate opponents. This must stop, because the slur is also being directed at knowledge itself, even though ignorance is a big problem facing the U.S., argues an author. more »
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billdoskoch
on Fri 30 May 2008 09:05 PM EDT
more » Thursday, May 29
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billdoskoch
on Thu 29 May 2008 10:44 AM EDT
Former White House press secretary Scott McLellan's memoirs have leaked, and he has blasted his former employer's handling of the Iraq war. The other current and former minions of Dubya have fought back. more »
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billdoskoch
on Thu 29 May 2008 08:32 AM EDT
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billdoskoch
on Thu 29 May 2008 08:10 AM EDT
A Washington Post reporter on his way out the door sneaks in a farewell to his readers. Here's the May 23 story (read the first letter of every paragraph). And here's the Editor and Publisher story about the buyouts at the venerable paper. (Thanks, Mungo)
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billdoskoch
on Thu 29 May 2008 12:19 AM EDT
In recent days, there have been suggestions that Oprah Winfrey's ratings have been declining because she stuck her nose into politics. And the lesson we should take from that is ...? more »Wednesday, May 28
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billdoskoch
on Wed 28 May 2008 11:26 PM EDT
This is a trip down memory lane, but late last year, the BBC ran two interesting items about the climate issue -- -- A post on the Editors blog and a news story about whether climate skeptics were self-reporting censorship. more »Monday, May 26
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billdoskoch
on Mon 26 May 2008 09:40 PM EDT
I always liked this scene at the Harvard Club in New York featuring Sydney Pollack and John Travolta in the 1998 film A Civil Action: more »Saturday, May 24
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billdoskoch
on Sat 24 May 2008 11:39 PM EDT
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billdoskoch
on Sat 24 May 2008 11:31 PM EDT
You, as an online content creator, may want a full evening of romantic coupling with the web user you lured into your cyber-boudoir (stickiness and all that). However, chances are they just want a quickie and then get back to their life. more »Friday, May 23
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billdoskoch
on Fri 23 May 2008 09:08 PM EDT
A story I neglected to note last week was Google's attempt to make websites more sociable with its Friend Connect feature. Fortunately, over at The Media Manager, Kirk LaPointe has had his eye on the bouncing Google ball. He noted the battle this could trigger over who owns personal data (users or the the social network service) and Facebook's attempt to lower the temperature, saying that while Google is a good company, it didn't consult Facebook first -- which is why Facebook blocked access to the feature. Kirk also noted that Google Earth now has a local news aggregation feature and that a Business Week article quotes an analyst as saying that Google is killing the revenue streams for journalism, capturing the lion's share while not paying one nickel towards content creation.
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billdoskoch
on Fri 23 May 2008 04:08 PM EDT
Gawker has a pointer to this chilling new U.S. blog:
I don't know if print is "dead," but it's certainly going through a nasty restructuring. And the longer-term prognosis is anything but optimistic.
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billdoskoch
on Fri 23 May 2008 01:34 PM EDT
A reporter for an Urdu-language newspaper has been shot dead in Pakistan after interviewing a spokesman for Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan, the Pakistan Taliban Movment. The shooting of Muhammad Ibrahim took place in the Bajaur tribal region, near the Afghanistan border in the north of Pakistan. Three men reportedly gathered up Ibrahim's cellphone, camera and notes. (thanks, Mungo). In Sri Lanka, journalists are protesting after one of their colleagues was kidnapped and then released, but not before suffering a terrible beating. Keith Noyahr, deputy editor with the English weekly The Nation, had been critical of the Sri Lankan army's conduct in its conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, said the Free Media Movement.
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billdoskoch
on Fri 23 May 2008 09:44 AM EDT
Emily Gould lives in Brooklyn. She's a blogger, which led to relationship problems (the boyfriend didn't much like being part of her posts), but she also landed a gig at Gawker. In a New York Times Magazine article, she writes the following about how that job may have been her destiny:
According to Wikipedia, Gould left Gawker on Nov. 30, 2007. A previous Gawker-related post: Jan. 13 - Has media gossip site Gawker passed its 'best before' date? Gawker noted Gould's piece here: Emily Gould introduces oversharing to New York Times Magazine Gould acknowledged the "elephant in the room" at her own blog, Emily Magazine.
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billdoskoch
on Fri 23 May 2008 06:23 AM EDT
The new blue bins arrived in my neighbourhood yesterday. The Globe and Mail's Margaret Wente had this to say about them:
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