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Read The Guardian

by Jillian Burt

[8.Feb.08] :. Reading and literacy today.

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Delicious Searching

by Jillian Burt

[4.Feb.08] :. The bookmarking site de.licio.us as a search tool.

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The Clippings File. Creature Features

by Jillian Burt

[24.Jan.08] :. Animal stories from the urban jungle.

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The Taking Down of Corey Delaney

by Jillian Burt

[20.Jan.08] :. By Rowena Robertson It’s only just over a week since it happened, but it seems as if Corey Delaney (aka Corey Worthington) has always been there. For the remaining few who...

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New Media Old Values

by Jillian Burt

[19.Jan.08] :. Berkeley Center for New Media Announces Endowment

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The Clippings File: Pakistan

by Jillian Burt

[9.Jan.08] :. Pakistan Tops List of Journalists Killed in 2007 In 2002 Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered in Pakistan. His widow, Mariane, also a journalist, wrote a book about her...

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Tempus Fugit

by Jillian Burt

[18.Dec.07] :. One article from the Sydney Morning Herald and one photograph from MediaStorm render at human scale the great, troubling environmental concerns of this year.

 

Give the Gift of Good News

by Jillian Burt

[15.Dec.07] :. Some of the best reporting on the state of the world is in Australian cookbooks.

 

Words of the Year: Locavore and Klimakatastrophe

by Jillian Burt

[9.Dec.07] :. Community journalism and the environment

 

Flattery or Piracy?

by Jillian Burt

[7.Dec.07] :. The business of content scraping and referral spam

 

The Stories Industrial Designs Tell

by Jillian Burt

[2.Dec.07] :. The Dyson Airblade is launched in Sydney and the wild new world 21st century design writers must come to grips with.

 

Google Magazine Patent

by Jillian Burt

[28.Nov.07] :. Google granted a magazine patent Techcrunch reports on a patent issued to Google called “Customization of Content and Advertisements in Publications.” It speculates that Google...

 

The Clippings File: Political Change in Asia

by Jillian Burt

[24.Nov.07] :. Journalists as Candidates in the Australian Election Australian Prime Minister John Howard was defeated in the federal election on Saturday and also seems set to lose his own seat of...

 

The Clippings File: Our Friends, Our World.

by Jillian Burt

[17.Nov.07] :. Thoughtful coverage of the storms, created by both human and natural causes, breaking across our world.

 

Words, Like Art

by Jillian Burt

[6.Nov.07] :. Language melts-down and contracts on new publishing platforms and mobile reading devices.

 

The Battle for the Hearts and Wallets of Business Readers

by Jillian Burt

[6.Nov.07] :. the hunt for well-heeled readers of financial journalism

 

Short Documentaries on i-tunes

by Jillian Burt

[30.Oct.07] :. the message on a mobile medium

 

The Clippings File: Economics

by Jillian Burt

[20.Oct.07] :. Writing about money and the value of things.

 

Admiring Oliver Sacks

by Jillian Burt

[19.Oct.07] :. The neurologist Oliver Sacks has an extraordinary ability to write the life of the mind. Where others see illness, dementia, a fearsome strangeness and shy away, he’s respectfully fascinated...

 

A New Way of Creating Investigative Journalism?

by Jillian Burt

[16.Oct.07] :. Paul Steiger, outgoing editor of The Wall Street Journal, proposes a foundation-backed method for gathering investigative journalism.

 

The Clippings File: Checking Into Fact Checking

by Jillian Burt

[12.Oct.07] :. Evaluating the veracity of knowledge found on the Internet.

 

The Newspaper Equivalent of Iron Chef?

by Jillian Burt

[4.Oct.07] :. A new model for co-operative competition between newspapers in an online alliance.

 

The Clippings File

by Jillian Burt

[1.Oct.07] :. Monks in Burma, Maira Kalman, Portfolio magazine, and more Stephen King.

 

Reporting On Religion

by Jillian Burt

[25.Sep.07] :. Faith or fact? The symbolism of religion conveyed by journalism.

 

The Melancholy Difficulties of Freedom

by Jillian Burt

[22.Sep.07] :. The Leader Who Silently Leads Monks protest in BurmaOver the last month images have begun appearing in newspapers around the world of monks walking along streets, sometimes wading through...

 

Now Read This: Some News Clippings

by Jillian Burt

[20.Sep.07] :. Sound Bites Are Getting Way Smaller A couple of months ago (I think) on his blog New York based venture capitalist Fred Wilson mused that he’d like to get his news through Twitter:...

 

The Skyline is Falling

by Jillian Burt

[19.Sep.07] :. Newspaper or Viewspaper? Advertising or Editorial? The blurring of categories.

 

A Hypothetical Problem

by Jillian Burt

[17.Sep.07] :. The polls say that 99% of people who read this story will be fascinated by it. A further 25%, if they re-read the story in a week’s time will be equally impressed. 

 

Peter Lunenfeld’s MediaWork Pamphlets

by Jillian Burt

[7.Sep.07] :. Peter Lunenfeld’s media work: The Southern California New Media Working Group brought a cerebral glamour to the digital community forming in Southern California in the early 1990’s. He...

 

The i-pod Times?

by Jillian Burt

[5.Sep.07] :. The wailing about the death of the newspaper focuses on the diminishing editorial standards due to the lack of money flowing into the newspapers because of the dwindling sales of newspapers in their...

 

The Cult of the Amateur by Andrew Keen

by Glenn Harlan Reynolds [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[3.Jul.07] :. An extended paean to the lost Golden Age of middlebrow taste-makers and big-media megaphones, and an extended jeremiad against an age in which people are free to make up their own minds, and make their own contributions.

 

Independent media under attack in Afghanistan

by Wahidullah Amani [The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (MCT)]

[3.May.07] :. KABUL, Afghanistan - A dispute between the nation’s chief prosecutor and the country’s most popular television station is raising fears that media freedom is under attack. The clash...

 

Newspapers struggle to adapt

by PopMatters Staff

[18.Apr.07] :. SEATTLE—The newspaper is not an endangered species, but sometimes it seems that way. The industry’s overall profit margins are still in double digits. Newspapers have loyal readers and...

 

Internet helps spread mistake about trip that Obama didn’t take

by Christi Parsons [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[10.Apr.07] :. WASHINGTON - There’s a story pinging around the Internet about how Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., paid a visit to Libya in 1984 and met with Louis Farrakhan, the Chicago-based Nation of Islam...

 

The murky world of conflicts of interest

by PopMatters Staff

[2.Apr.07] :. Sometimes a newsroom conflict of interest is as unmistakable as a pimple on prom night. Consider a financial writer praising a company whose stock she owns or a real-estate reporter hyping a...

 
 
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