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Is online journalism better the more local it is, and what does that do to growth?
This isn’t my question – but it’s what a bunch of trans-continental, anglophone types will be pondering across this month’s Carnival of Journalism. Personally, I don’t have a lot of time or interest in geographically-based, local journalism (see Local Schmokel). I subscribe to the New Yorker despite the listings. There’s nothing local about our online…
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ProPublica’s flabby Al Hurra investigation
Its takedown of feeble, US-funded news channel Al Hurra sounds like soft target city. The promised revelation?
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Talking about Rupert Murdoch
Mark Bowden talks about his excellent Murdoch piece over at the Atlantic. Talking about your piece is cynically considered one of those ways to squeeze the last bit of juice out of editorial. But it does also allow you to address issues that couldn’t be expanded in the original. I think it works better with…
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Wealth, leisure and the attention economy in the 18C
A while back, Clay Shirky (Gin, Television and Social Surplus) invoked 18C England in arguing that gin was the enabling – and stupefying – technology of rapid urbanisation. Television, he argued, played the same role in – presumably, he doesn’t really elaborate – the suburbanisation of the US in the second half of the 20C.…