Journalism
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Pay, Shepard Fairey, Pay.
So Shepard Fairey, the really great street artist who created the Obama Hope poster, has sued the Associated Press in order to get a judge to say that he did not infringe on their copyright of the image that an AP photographer took. Shepard Fairey, you have an opportunity to help the newspaper business in…
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Complete Scans of “What Went Wrong”
Hi-resolution scans of the ground-breaking Miami Herald series that used building permit data to tell a story of destruction and corruption that won the Pulitzer Prize.
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The Dear Abby Model for Effective Newspaper Comments
Clearly, comments and community are an area in the newspaper business that are strong. Some form of community is going to be a big part of the new strength. I’d look to Dear Abby for a method for getting there. So: newspapers should employ full-time editors to manage comments and thread them into a cohesive…
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DXO, Chicago News Examiner
So today I started as the "Chicago News Examiner" for the Examiner.com Web site. I am going to be covering Chicago news stories a couple times a week. I’m excited about doing it because it’s a low-impact side project where I can write my goofball thoughts and odd link-love research as I please. My first…
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News in Context
At EveryBlock, we’ve talked a lot about “context”. It’s one of the things that people– especially people in the journalism community– say that the site is missing. They’re right, of course, in that we collect and present an immense amount of data without textual analysis or narrative history. It’s one thing to note that a…