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Titanic Days for GM and EMI
Sometimes things just connect up. Consider, for example, these three stories from today’s Guardian. General Motors declares bankruptcy – the biggest manufacturing collapse in US history Joss Stone...
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Brits Investigate Politicians
It seems that some Members of (the UK) Parliament have been rather… irregular in their expense claims. In order to investigate the expense claims thoroughly, it is necessary to trawl through hundreds...
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Zoo New England in Media Old and New
Zoo New England is the private, non-profit organization that operates Franklin Park Zoo in Boston and Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts. We have a family membership: a good deal, since we probably...
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Waiter, there’s a distortion in my headline
The New York Times isn’t just mainstream media on paper these days. It’s also mainstream media online, with a side order of social media. Its site includes a number of blogs, one of which recently...
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Journalist, Curator: not real-time jobs
Twitter Lists: Journalism Becomes a Real-Time Job is the title of a very recent post by Pete Cashmore, Mr Mashable himself. My real-time reaction to it was that real journalism is not a real-time job,...
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MBAs and BS
When I saw a Reddit entry entitled The decline of the MBA will cut off the supply of bullshit at source, and linking to The Economist, I doubted that the Reddit title was a quote from the original...
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Coincidence? I think not
Two headlines, same story. Wall Street Journal Busts Down Its Paywall For A Day: that’s The Business Insider. Acura Sponsors WSJ.com Today as Headlines Slam Toyota: that’s Philtered. I have to say that...
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Could the Future of Online News Be… Relevant Content?
John Yemma, Editor of The Christian Science Monitor, thinks so. There is no future in a paywall. No salvation in digital razzle dazzle. There is, however, a bold future in relevant content. Universal...
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Guardian’s Open Platform
If I had to choose just one newspaper, it would be The Guardian. That’s a rather archaic opening sentence in this age of digital plenty, including as it does the terms choose just one and newspaper....
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Parenting: Battles and Other Stories
You may have heard of Amy Chau, and her new book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. If so, that’s probably due to the excerpt published in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago. The headline was “Why...
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