This is some of what’s caught my attention in the past hours:
- TV news emerges as a medium for promotion | Livemint.com – “[N]ews channels are looking to create different platforms, such as awards functions, lifestyle and entertainment shows, which could attract a wider range of advertisers, without compromising their credibility as unbiased, independent news companies.”
- Life Aboard an Academic Supercarrier | Vin Crosbie – Vin Crosbie’s class this semester…
- DoodleBuzz:Why? – “DoodleBuzz was born out of an idea to create an entirely new way of exploring information – one that allows for a kind of “quiet chaos” that gives people the opportunity to explore unthought of paths and connections along their news gathering journey.”
- ‘NBC Nightly News’ Gains Viewers In 2007-08 Season; Other Newscasts Decline | TV Decoder – “NBC Nightly News,” the top-rated newscast, averaged 8.52 million viewers, up a bit from 8.4 million last season. “Nightly” has ranked No. 1 among evening newscasts for 12 years.
- How to write journalism: Hot off the press | The Guardian – “The uniqueness of reportage lies in experience and the yearning to tell it to others.”
- The media’s part in US imperialism | New Statesman – “Silence covers the truth that Britain’s political parties have converged and now follow the single-ideology model of the United States. This is different from the political consensus of half a century ago that produced what was known as social democracy.” Discuss.
- How to write journalism: How journalists write | The Guardian – “Good journalists must ask the awkward questions and question the answers, must dig to unearth and then explain, making comprehensible that which authority, by intent or verbal inadequacy, has left confused, incomplete or plain mendacious. Incomprehensible journalism is quite simply bad journalism, and therefore pointless.”