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How to blog for the Washington Post
A local Washington paper has reprinted the Washington Post’s guide for in-house bloggers [HT: Lost Remote]. It isn’t exactly the secret recipe for Coca-Cola, but hey…here it is. Blogging at The Washington Post All blogs should draw on our principles for Washington Post journalism on the web, including meeting our standards of accuracy and fairness…
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Barry Diller on the future of newspapers
Just because you’re on the board of the Washington Post doesn’t mean you can’t keep it real. Barry Diller has been sharing his thoughts on the future of newspapers with Portfolio: “I think that the print business, the ink business, is deeply challenged. But I also think that’s just the distribution mode. I think that…
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Why informing the public doesn’t always work…
In case you missed this little gem from the Washington Post: Long-term memories matter most in public health campaigns or political ones, and they are the most susceptible to the bias of thinking that well-recalled false information is true. The experiments do not show that denials are completely useless; if that were true, everyone would…
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The latest Holovaty project is on Bill Clinton‘s speaking engagements. Interestingly Bill’s cheapest job in the UK was for the LSE back in 2001 – a snip at just over US$28k…compare that to his normal US$125-250k (in case you wanted to book him for a summer party).