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Journalistic competition – the good old days
This reminder from Kevin Cullen of what journalistic competition was like. Back in the dying days of the pre-mobile, pre-online era.
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Freedom of Information: numerical junk via the BBC
Thanks to a Freedom of Information request through great new site whatdotheyknow.com, you can get a rough idea of which UK ‘nation’ paid what for the BBC, as of March 31, 2008. It’s pretty precise:
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News market fails to be as lousy as ProPublica hopes
Said one director of investigative journalism outfit ProPublica when it launched (my itals): ProPublica may help lead the way to crafting new approaches addressing the market failure that seems to be taking hold in some segments of publishing, and that threatens a real loss to the health of our democracy. Market failure, eh? Looks like…
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Twitter as a news resource…
Jeff Jarvis writes on the newsgathering potential of Twitter, and I see a problem: Developers at the BBC and Reuters have picked up on the potential for this. They are working on applications to monitor Twitter, the Twitter search engine Summize, and other social-media services – Flickr, YouTube, Facebook – for news catchwords such as…