links for 2007-05-11
Posted on May 11, 2007, 9:24 pm, by James, under
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So I got fired today for nonsensical reasons. I worked at a small newsweekly, where I was a designer, but also for whom I did quite a lot of writing.
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So, what do you do when you wake up to thousands of new items in your feed reader, with hundreds of items which don’t even interest you?
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As part of its annual city festival, the South Korean capital staged Thursday what was billed as the world’s first high-wire championship, drawing 18 contestants from nine countries for three days of supreme feats of concentration.
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Trinity Mirror, the publisher of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror, this afternoon said it was on track to reap around £600 million from the auction of The Racing Post and other regional newspapers it has put up for sale.
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Newspapers are noticing the value of bloggers, and a new breed of citizen journalists is gaining prominence.
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Despite revenue and circulation problems, job cuts, and budget slashing in many newsrooms, 73% percent of 2005 print journalism graduates found full-time employment in their industry.
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Ask a dozen people to define ‘citizen journalism’, and you will undoubtedly get twelve different answers. This is not because agreement can’t be reached, but because many different activities have been lumped together under the same umbrella term.
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Tasneem is meeting with Mahfuz Anam in his office alone. Staffers in office say he looks physically ok, but badly shaken up. He is being taken home to his wife by DS staff after the meeting with MA.
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Newspapers are “well behind the curve” when it comes to meeting user’s needs around content and community creation.
