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Google News – publisher!
Here is Josh Cohen’s announcement about Google News: Today we’re launching a new feature on Google News that will help you quickly and easily find original stories from news publishers – including stories from some of the top news agencies in the world, such as the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, UK Press Association and the…
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Anthony Mitchell
Spare a thought for the family and friends of Anthony Mitchell, of the Associated Press, feared lost on Kenya Airways FQ 507. He was 39, married, with two young children. Here’s one of his stories from April on the U.S. government’s use of Ethiopian jails in its extraordinary rendition programme.
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Demablogs 3 – academic papers
Where do you think the quotes below come from? Some chippy demablogger, with a grudge against mainstream media? Have a read, as it criticizes: the inequities and limitations of the international journalism provided by “traditional media.” [news agencies] manufacture a bland and homogeneous, but still ideologically distinctive, view of the world… [news providers] are demonstrably…
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Online video on UK news sites
Here’s a piece I wrote recently for the BBC‘s College of Journalism site. Andy Dickinson has some interesting – and more extensive – posts on the same topic. Approaching the Telegraph’s clean, attractive new website video jumps straight out at you and starts playing. It’s a couple of comedians. They’re having a laugh. On behalf…