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A local Washington paper has reprinted the Washington Post’s guide for in-house bloggers [HT: Lost Remote]. It isn’t exactly the secret recipe for Coca-Cola, but hey…here it is.
Blogging at The Washington Post
All blogs should draw on our principles for Washington Post journalism on the web, including meeting our standards of accuracy and fairness and rules for […]

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Just because you’re on the board of the Washington Post doesn’t mean you can’t keep it real. Barry Diller has been sharing his thoughts on the future of newspapers with Portfolio:
“I think that the print business, the ink business, is deeply challenged. But I also think that’s just the distribution mode. I think that the […]

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In case you missed this little gem from the Washington Post:
Long-term memories matter most in public health campaigns or political ones, and they are the most susceptible to the bias of thinking that well-recalled false information is true.
The experiments do not show that denials are completely useless; if that were true, everyone would believe the myths. […]

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The latest Holovaty project is on Bill Clinton’s speaking engagements. Interestingly Bill’s cheapest job in the UK was for the LSE back in 2001 - a snip at just over US$28k…compare that to his normal US$125-250k (in case you wanted to book him for a summer party).

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Here’s Deborah Howell, the Washington Post’s ombudsman:
Journalism tends to draw to its ranks those who are idealistic, who want to right society’s ills and who look upon their work as a calling. They look at journalism less as a job with a business than as a calling to public service, which can put them […]

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