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We’re all Mark Thompson now.
The BBC’s announcement today of its streamlining and focusing of its web strategy, 25 per cent budget cuts, the loss of 360 jobs, cannot have been a surprise to anyone, least of all its most ardent...
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Real time, All the time: Why every news organisation has to be live
Twitter does not have many users in Abbottabad in Pakistan, where Facebook is apparently more the social platform of choice. But it has enough to break the first sounds of gunfire in the fight which...
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Google+ and Journalist Profiles: the best thing since sliced bread or the...
The announcement from Google, that it is going to allow journalists to become more visible in its Google News service, as long as they have a profile on the Google+ social platform has sparked some...
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Occupy Wall Street : what it tells us about the future of news
Occupy Wall Street is the perfect framework for understanding what is happening to news dissemination in an internet age. If there is a journalist or journalism student left in New York who has not yet...
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Free advice for the New York Times on Occupy Wall Street.
I am sure the public editor of the New York Times will be thrilled to know that Monday is ‘free advice day’, so he is in luck with the question he posed this week in his column: Occupy Wall Street: How...
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Networks or Institutions? The ‘Future of News’ needs both.
Dean Starkman’s long read on ‘the news gurus’ in the Columbia Journalism Review starts out with the story of the remarkable Ida Tarbell, a template for the modern investigative reporter, whose work in...
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Columbia Journalism School faculty write to Mayor and NYPD over #OWS protests
Many of our students here at Columbia Journalism School have spent the week reporting the Occupy Wall Street protests. They documented the clearance of Zuccotti Park and the subsequent protests with a...
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What Would Rupert Do?* The Lessons of a Tweeting Murdoch.
It used to be the case that the news media’s engagement with social media and the commercial web was once reminiscent of Dr Samuel Johnson’s quote about women preachers ’..like a dog walking on its...
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“Kill your media consultant” : Election2012
If you are ever anxious about the disappearing craft of journalism and your metaphorical engagement in horse-shoe manufacture during the age of space travel, comfort yourself with the sight of small...
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Five questions for editors about Twitter et al.
Do you have a disaster recovery plan for social media? Given last week’s announcement by Twitter that it would comply with tweet censoring in certain parts of the world, it might be time for editors...
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