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Hoping to Compensate for Their Waning Influence, Alt-Weeklies Sacrifice Quality for Sensory Overload

Josh Rosenblatt | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Newspapers, Internet Journalism, Web Sites, Journalism, Alt-Weeklies, Media News
Josh Rosenblatt

For the younger generation, who formed relationships to media in a time when immediacy and convenience were everything, the alt-weekly model isn't just dying -- it never existed in the first place.

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Naomi Wolf To Write History Of The Vagina

The New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Naomi Wolf, History of the Vagina, Naomi Wolf Vagina, Books, Journalism, Ecco Press, A Cultural History of the Vagina, Media News

Naomi Wolf is going back to her roots. The journalist and author, who has seemingly been on a break for the past couple of years from writing books on...

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The Washington Post and "Journamalism"

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Monica Hesse, Washington Post, Lynn Medford, Journalism, National Organization for Marriage, Brian Brown, Media News
Allison Kilkenny

The Washington Post recently profiled Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). There were no testimonials from gay couples, or gay rights advocates.

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'GQ' Buries Article Critical Of Russian President Vladimir Putin

NPR | David Folkenflik | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Kgb, Russia, Conde Nast, Scott Anderson, Media, Investigative Journalism, Censorship, Gq, Journalism, Media News

For war journalist Scott Anderson, the most confounding part of his recent assignment for GQ magazine to explore the root of terrorist acts in Russia ...

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Christian Poveda: French Filmmaker Killed In El Salvador; 1 Arrested

AP | MARCOS ALEMAN | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Guadalajara Film Festival Memory Award, Film, Christian Poveda, San Salvador, Central America, U.S. Prisons, French Filmmaker, Violence, Social Justice, Gangs, El Salvador, France, Reporters Without Borders, Journalism, Guadalajara Film Festival, GDocumentary Film, Poverty, Photojournalist, Media, Tonacatepeque, World News

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A French filmmaker who spent years documenting the brutality and desperation of a Salvadoran street gang has been fo...

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Journalists Laura Ling And Euna Lee Break Silence On North Korea Capture, Release

AP | LISA LEFF and HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Laura Ling, Media, Euna Lee, Current TV, Kim Jong Il, Korea, China, Journalism, North Korea, Media News

SAN FRANCISCO — Two American television reporters imprisoned in North Korea for months say communist soldiers "violently dragged" them back when...

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Jason Linkins

Pentagon Cancels Embed-Vetting Contract With P.R. Firm

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Pentagon, Military Embred, Rendon Group Vets Journalists, Pentagon Vets Journalists, The Rendon Group, Journalism, Pentagon Contracts, Media News

Last week, Stars and Stripes' Charlie Reed broke the story that the Pentagon had contracted with a DC public relations firm called the Rendon Group to...

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New Media, Same as Old, Old Media

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media

Read More: The Week, Paid Content, Time Magazine, Perez Hilton, Online Advertising, Nic Brisbourne, Internet Advertising, New Media, Tech Crunch, Huffington Post, Cbs, Journalism, Nbc, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Jarvis Coffin

Information is abundant and free; collating the threads of its different parts becomes the scarce source of value. It may interest us all to know that this was the premise of Time Magazine when it was founded.

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Without Freedom of Expression

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Internet, Marc Kielburger, Thailand, Freedom of the Press, Craig Kielburger, Journalism, North Korea Journalists, Press Freedom, Thailand Repression of Freedom of Expression, World News
Craig and Marc Kielburger

10 years. That's the length of the sentence that Thai man, Suwicha Thakor, received in April for posting two comments on a website deemed insulting to Thailand's monarchy.

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Carrying the Fire

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Job Losses, Jobs, Economic Crisis, Recession, Journalism, Media News
Tracy L. Barnett

fe. Time is growing short to move to a global vision that will enable survival for all, not just the fittest.

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Slate Joins Newser: This Is How to Save the News

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Aggregator, Michael Wolff, Wolff's Newser, Newser, The Slatest, Slate, Content Aggregators, Content-Aggregators, Aggregated News, Newser.com, Washington Post, Media, Journalism, Media News
Michael Wolff

Just as so many save-our-business types are castigating news aggregators as pirates, Slate takes up the aggregating craft.

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Was Robert Novak a Journalist?

Marcel Pacatte | Posted 09.21.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Robert Novak, Clarence Page, Journalism, Future of Journalism, Novak Plame, Chicago News
Marcel Pacatte

With journalism lumbering through a period of spasmodic ineptitude, the people with hopes for its future could do worse than to emulate Novak's understanding of the darker natures of the folks at the levers of power.

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I'm Proud to Kill the News

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Newser.com, Michael Wolff, Wolff's Newser, Newser, Media, News, Journalism, Pilkington, The Guardian, Annie Leibovitz, Media News
Michael Wolff

The Guardian in London ran a piece Tuesday by my friend Ed Pilkington, the paper's correspondent in New York, about the financial woes of the photogra...

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Nobody Out-Novaked Novak

Richard Laermer | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Cnn, Richard Armitage, Fair Game, Cia, Crossfire, Valerie Plame, Cancer, Journalism, Robert Novak, Evans-Novak, Media News
Richard Laermer

Robert Novak was disliked by many -- liberals, mostly -- but he was a soldier, veteran, and a remarkable, unceasing journalist.

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Saving Journalism: Howard Kurtz Is Wrong, Dan Rather Is Right

Josh Silver | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Howard Kurtz, Washington Post, Dan Rather, Free Press, Journalism, Howard Kurtz Dan Rather, Media News
Josh Silver

Kurtz asserts that the journalism crisis is not a political issue, but the result of economic and technological forces alone. If only that were true.

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In Defense of FREE: Why I Don't Care That Arianna Doesn't Pay Me

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Blogosphere, Freelance Writers, Writers, Celebrities Talk Politics, Journalism, Blogging, Bloggers, Arianna Huffington, Media News
Raymond Leon Roker

When you really look at the traffic the average site generates, you see the Web is actually a big lonely place. And without real traffic, you're just preaching in an echo chamber.

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Murdoch Pay-For-Content Strategy A Dud

Diane Francis | Posted 09.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Iranian Uprising, Newspapers, Iran, Death of Newspapers, Fox, Digital Television, Media, Wall Street Journal, Journalism, The Times of London, Blogs, Television, Internet, Online, New York Times, Citizen Journalism, New Media, Media News
Diane Francis

Murdoch and others are the King Canutes of the business world, trying to hold back the tides.

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Mark Cuban Is Not a Big Fat Idiot -- But News Will Still Be Free

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Wolff, Media, Journalism, Mark Cuban, Media News
Michael Wolff

Mark Cuban advances the argument about paid news in his rejoinder to my rebuttal of his attack on Newser (ie, aggregators are dastardly). His notion a...

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Mark Cuban Is a Big Fat Idiot--News Will Stay Free

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Wolff, Wolff's Newser, Newser, Mark Cuban, Content-Aggregators, Media, Newsercom, Journalism, Newspapers, Media News
Michael Wolff

Cuban is a man of snappy, attention-deficit sort of opinions (some of which, for all I know, may be wise. His opinion the other day, to which, I assume, he gave his usual amount of consideration, involved Newser.

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Is There a Life After New York?

Aida Alami | Posted 09.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Brooklyn Bridge, Bodegas, Morocco, New York Subway, Hudson River Park, Soho, West Village, Tribeca, Union Square, Journalism, Angelika Theater, New York, New York City, New York News
Aida Alami

When I decided to move away from New York, I was confident about my decision. I felt that the city had nothing to offer me anymore; I'd heard or seen everything before.

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Why Is Frank Rich Mad as Hell?

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Michael Wolff, Media, Frank Rich Obama, Frank Rich, Barack Obama, Journalism, Frank Rich Column, Media News
Michael Wolff

Frank Rich has pulled off his career goal: becoming as quintessentially part of the establishment as you can be.

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The Wrong Story on Karadzic

James S. Gordon | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

Read More: New York Times Magazine, Human Rights, Kosovo, Bosnia, Serbia, Karadzic, Serbs, Journalism, Genocide, World News
James S. Gordon

I found the Times' piece on Radovan Karadzic very disturbing -- not because it addressed his crimes, but because it chose to focus on an identity he assumed while he was living underground in Belgrade.

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Bill O'Reilly-Keith Olbermann Feud Ends with a Corporate Handshake?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Countdown, General Electric, Ge, Ronald Reagan, Phil Donahue, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Hudson River, Pcbs, Keith Olbermann, Roger Ailes, Propaganda, Jeffrey Immelt, Willie Horton, Msnbc, Fox News, O'Reilly-Olbermann Rivalry, O'Reilly-Olbermann Feud, Journalism, George H.W. Bush, Rupert Murdoch, Republican Talking Points, News Corporation, Republican Party, Republican Strategist Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, Fox, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

Corporate honchos at GE and News Corp making back-room editorial decisions for the "news" subsidiaries they control? I can't help but think it might not be the best thing for the integrity of journalism.

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Raise Your Hand if You Think Media People Have a Future

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Wolff, Tina Brown, Rupert Murdoch, Media, The Daily Beast, Tina Brown the Daily Beast, Talk Magazine, David Carr, Journalism, Media News
Michael Wolff

Media people are deeply nostalgic for the media -- for when it paid big money and was an exclusive sort of place.

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This Is Rupert's Last Stand: Making You Pay

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Michael Wolff, Media, Wall Street Journal, Online Journalism, Journalism, Media News
Michael Wolff

Technology, at News Corp., has always been regarded as one of those things, like fancy hotels, or long-form writing, that are not part of the company culture.

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