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Newsgathering online: the missing canoeist
From the Guardian: A single mother put police and journalists to shame in their attempts to unravel the mysterious reappearance of the canoeist John Darwin by using a simple Google search, it emerged today… It was found by the anonymous woman after she tapped in the words “John, Anne and Panama” into Google. She then…
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The first use of the word ‘Journalism’
The first use of the word journalism is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary like this: 1833 Westm. Rev. Jan. 195 (Reviewing a French work ‘Du Journalisme’) ‘Journalism’ is a good name for the thing meant..A word was sadly wanted. Ibid. 196 The power of journalism is acknowledged..to be enormous in France. But the OED…
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Google pays for news?
The Sunday Herald had a good little story: So, thanks to AFP, everyone is getting in on the act. (Update) In Wired, btw, Leslie Moonves explains the difference between promotional value and getting paid (contrast with the BBC’s ‘promotional’ YouTube deal): Wired: There’s a lot of CBS material on YouTube. How does that work? Moonves:…
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Journalism by numbers
Next time you do a word count, check out one of the stats offered up by your word processor – the Flesch reading ease index. It was devised in the 1940s by an Austrian, Rudolf Flesch, and is a simple number crunching exercise that uses the number of words per sentence, and the number of…