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History of American Journalism
If you go to Chris Daly‘s blog, you can read the first chapters of his forthcoming book Covering America. Daly is professor of journalism at Boston University and a former WaPo reporter. He’s taking the book up to 2004, so expect it to get more contentious the closer it gets to now…
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Reporter involvement: a message to Dan Harris, although it’s not his fault
My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action – even an opinion is a kind of action. Graham Greene The Quiet AmericanFrom USA Today: More reporters embrace an advocacy roleBy Peter Johnson The “social journalism” that made Oprah Winfrey an international fairy…
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Telegraph TV
Would be great if my Mac could open it…will have to try a PC.
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Essjay: who not to trust – The New Yorker or Wikipedia?
Back in July 2006, The New Yorker published an article by Pulitzer-prize winning biographer Stacy Schiff called Know it all: Can Wikipedia conquer expertise. According to the piece: One regular on the site is a user known as Essjay, who holds a Ph.D. in theology and a degree in canon law and has written or…