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Get blogging, get plagiarising…
Chris Cobler‘s injunction to journalists to get blogging has attracted some attention. He’s just become the managing editor of US website Poynter Online, which aims to raise standards in journalism (it’s one of my personal faves). He was also, until recently, in charge of the Greeley Tribune, which has just admitted ripping off stories from…
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James Bays
Old hollow legs himself is alive and well, after becoming a brief guest of the Taliban. The Al Jazeera English reporter found himself the story for a while, along with three Afghan colleagues: Afghan militants capture, release Al-Jazeera journalists Militants in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province captured four journalists of Arab television network the Al-Jazeera and…
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Who pays for your blog?
Howard Owens blogs off Jeff Jarvis, who has in turn blogged off Mark Potts to observe that news content has always been free: Newspaper subscribers have never paid for content. They have paid for delivery. These days, I read thousands of words a content every day. I pay for all of it. But I don’t…
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Publicly-funded journalism in the United States?
Yesterday, Wall Street wiz Steve Rattner used the unlikely platform of the Wall Street Journal to appeal for publicly-funded journalism in the United States: We could create a pool of money (possibly from a license fee similar to how the BBC is funded). News organizations with an expensive but important project in mind could apply…