By Mindy McAdams
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Adrian Holovaty said what every young journalist needs to hear, in a commencement speech at the Missouri School of Journalism earlier this month.
… the foundation is important because you need to understand the rules before you can break them. And now, more than ever, this industry needs to break some rules….Rarely is an entire industry […]
I love how the Internet helps me broaden my world. Today, for example, as I was catching up on my blog feeds, I found an essay by an Egyptian journalist, Fatemah Farag, at the PBS Frontline/World site.
Fatemah Farag is a senior journalist at Al-Ahram Weekly in Cairo. She has written extensively about police repression, the […]
Wow, Paul Conley was really tough on Ed Wasserman’s op-ed, which I wrote about on Wednesday. I think maybe we should keep in mind that folks at the Miami Herald may have edited Ed’s piece to suit their own ends — given that earth-shattering memo their boss, Tom Fiedler, sent out.
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In asking whether “convergence” is the next media disaster, Ed Wasserman points out that professional journalists (so far) have had precious little input in shaping the newsroom (and the news product) of the future.
Ed makes some excellent points, but I’m afraid the overall tone of the piece might make some journalists shake their fist in […]
Posting from beautiful Guanajuato in the central highlands of Mexico … so far I have not found an Internet cafe with a decent connection speed, so I’m plowing through a backlog of e-mail slowly.
UPDATE: Photos on Flickr.
Kevin Kelly has a comprehensive piece in The New York Times Magazine today about a variety of large-scale projects to scan and make available online as many printed books as possible. Most people have probably heard about Google’s book project, but that’s not the only one.
Of course this raises questions about copyright — and those […]
At all levels of the U.S. education system, champions of free speech and press have sometimes come to conflict with school administrators. The latest example of this: At Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Mass Communications, longtime Time magazine correspondent and editor Jack White quit teaching because “the atmosphere in Hampton is in […]
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