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ABC News Michael Hastings’ ten tips to aspiring journalists Washington Post (blog) Hastings is today, and will likely continue to be, remembered as the journalist who brought down a four-star general and the face of the war in Afghanistan.
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War is a-brewin’. Video sharing has been slow to become part and parcel of our everyday schemata of social media, but with the success of Vine, competitors are scrambling to get in on the action. Among them?
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“New perspectives from the sky,” a study by Dr. Mark Tremayne and Andrew Clark published in Digital Journalism, can help you with that.
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This post is heavy on the promo for Simply Measured, but contains a lot of good advice
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How to tell if a journalist is a patsy (used!
Journalism schools have to go where the puck is Globe and Mail Journalism schools are caught in a dilemma: Should journalism curricula reflect the media’s needs as they are now or should J-schools be more experimental and in effect, become think…
This from the post: “Journalism schools and organizations need to stop being complicit in preparing students for the past. The courses still taught most often teach skills that worked well 10 to 20 years ago. But media organizations haven’t been clear either about what they want or need from J-schools.
Innovation in our journalism schools remains the needed and missing link that will blend new and old skills along with an appreciation of the business challenges that threaten the survival of journalism as we have known it.”
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Poutsch launches its addictive social polling service on the iPhone
The Next Web
With this move, the startup is clearly pushing the social aspects of its network.
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Wired
The Price to Pay for Facebook’s Free Wi-Fi?
More of the Interbrand top 100 brands are adopting dedicated support handles, and those already committed to serving customers are improving their responsiveness.
I see custoemr service as an integral part of a brand journalism strategy, hence include this post here
When you bet on a strict, un-leaky paywall as The Times of London has, you’re forced to get creative about how to put your work in front of new audiences — particularly if you’re trying to influence their opinions.
I think the problem here may have been the Tumblr platform itself - a bad fit for The Times I’d say
