Associated Press

What would Jeff do?

October 13, 2008

In case you hap­pen to be a journ­al­ist and Jeff Jar­vis still has you think­ing that news­pa­per prob­lems are your fault, take a look at the New York Times from July, 1980 (and if you like catchy head­lines, they don’t come much catch­ier than this): First U.S. Exper­i­ments in Elec­tronic News­pa­pers Begin in Two Com­munit­ies; 13 News­pa­pers to […]

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Arguing against Nick Davies

February 4, 2008

Brit­ish writer Nick Dav­ies is an inspir­a­tion to a lot of young journ­al­ists, and rightly so (you can read more of his writ­ing on social issues here). But now he has moved from cov­er­ing drugs and crim­inal justice to report on journ­al­ism. And in doing so, he com­mis­sioned some research to back up his cri­ti­cisms and […]

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Mean­while, over at the Asso­ci­ated Press: The gov­ern­ment com­mand­eered buses and state rail­road cars to carry Pres­id­ent Robert Mugabe’s sup­port­ers from across the coun­try for a march and rally near Har­are Fri­day. The rally was a show of strength for Mugabe before a party meet­ing next month at which his con­tin­ued lead­er­ship was likely to be debated, and […]

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Demon­strat­ing, per­haps, my MBO (Mas­ter of the Bleed­ing Obvi­ous*) skills, here are my recent con­tri­bu­tions to cov­er­age of the ongo­ing Madeleine McCann saga. From the Asso­ci­ated Press: And play­ing com­ment­ator tag in Time with Charlie Beck­ett: For earlier posts — from May — see here and here. *Basil Fawlty: Next con­test­ant, Mrs. Sybil Fawlty from […]

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