links for 2008-02-26

  • In March, students across the UK are being given the opportunity to become journalists for a day: Newsday 2008, in association with learnnewsdesk.co.uk, encourages students to write, edit and assemble their own newspapers.
  • The book that gave the journalist John Ardagh, who has died aged 79, a place in history was The New French Revolution, which was published just as the events of May 1968 began to happen.
  • Another day, another end to a Gawker employee’s nasty, brutish and short career. Radar says media reporter Maggie Schnayerson, hired in September, was sacked for failing to generate enough page views.

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