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"In covering a story [...],
journalists would do well to remember the power of the particular:
the color of the rosary beads, a family photograph recovered from
the rubble, the name of the dog."
The
Name of the Dog: The Bigger the Story, the More Important the
Details, by Roy Peter Clark, Poynteronline, Sept. 25, 2001.
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"The
8-Step Cure for Old Fartism," by Jon Katz (November
4, 1997). "Recently, I wrote that the decline of
newspapers wasn't caused by competition from new media
technologies, but by a virulent and much more deadly virus,
one which I have just isolated and identified. It's called
Raging Old Fartism."
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The
10 Myths of Online Publishing - by Eric Meyer, author of "Tomorrow's
News Today" Highly Recommended
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AJR
Newslink - with links to newspapers, magazines, radio and
television, and lots-o-resources
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The
Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability - Bi-weekly
column by Jakob Nielsen, formerly Sun Microsystems
Distinguished Engineer. Highest Recommendation
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"The
End of Legacy Media (Newspapers, Magazines, Books, TV
Networks)," by Jakob Nielsen (Alertbox
August 23, 1998) - "Most current media formats will die
and be replaced with an integrated Web medium in five to ten
years."
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"The
Life and Death of Media," speech by Bruce Sterling at
Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA '95,
Montreal Sept. 19, 1995.
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The
Economist - weekly magazine from London
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U.S.
News Online
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Wall
Street Journal Interactive Edition
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Sites of General Interest
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Columbia
Journalism Review
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"The
Future of the Printed Press: challenges in a digital
world," by Monique van Dusseldorp, European
Journalism Centre, Maastricht 1998
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"Journalism
and the Net: Thinking about Global Standards," by
Mark Deuze, The Amsterdam School of Communications Research
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"The
Net as Media Savior," James Fallows with host John
McChesney (September 1997)
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"Niche
Masters Who Can Kill You," by Randy
Cassingham, Author, This is True, Presented to The Online News
Summit II held in Washington, D.C., May 19, 1998
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Newspapers
are in the "Connecting People Business" - by
Norbert Specker
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Pulitzer
Prizes
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"Tomorrow's
News Today" by Eric Meyer
Highly
Recommended
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"Why
newspapers are in trouble," by Guy Kawasaki (Forbes,
February 9, 1998). "Imagine. It's 1901, Ransom E. Olds is
about to introduce the automobile assembly line, and you are a
blacksmith. What should you do? (1) Put the horses on
amphetamines. (2) Change your line of work. Correct answer:
(2). Faster horses wouldn't have saved the day for the
blacksmiths. The blacksmiths of the next century are
newspapers."
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"Peepshow,"
by Mark Stencel, S. Robert Lichter and Larry J. Sabato (Rowman
& Littlefield, 2000) "Three of America's best
political analysts have brilliantly tackled a grisly truth:
sex and scandal have been institutionalized in American
politics, with researchers digging not just through an
adversary's old speeches and voting records, but divorce
papers and the garbage. A must-read." Morton
Kondracke, editor, Roll Call |
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"News
Is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth
Century," by Pete Hamill, paperback (Ballantine
Books 1998) or audio
cassettes (Dove Audio 1998). "With the usual
honorable exceptions, newspapers are getting dumber. They are
increasingly filled with sensation, rumor, press-agent
flackery, and bloated trivialities at the expense of
significant facts. The Lewinsky affair was just a magnified
version of what has been going on for some time. Newspapers
emphasize drama and conflict at the expense of analysis. They
cover celebrities as if reporters were a bunch of waifs with
their noses pressed enviously to the windows of the rich and
famous. They are parochial, square, enslaved to the
conventional pieties. The worst are becoming brainless printed
junk food."
"All across the country, in large cities and small, even
the better newspapers are predictable and boring. I once heard
a movie director say of a certain screenwriter: 'He aspired to
mediocrity, and he succeeded.' Many newspapers are succeeding
in the same way." --the author |
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"News
Values: Ideas for an Information Age," by Jack
Fuller (University of Chicago Press 1996). Jack
Fuller is a lawyer, journalist, and the Publisher of the
Chicago Tribune. "A concise, powerful statement of the
fundamental issues, ethical and practical, confronting
newspapers today, News Values offers a provocative new
perspective on the questions which journalists should be
asking themselves now in order to prepare for tomorrow."
An excellent discussion of the truth of the news, deception
and other confidence games, and news and community. Buy
this from Amazon.com - hardcover
or paperback |
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