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Filter the Best Stuff to the Front Page: OffTheBus and NewsTrust.Net Do a Demo Project
via PressThink by Jay Rosen on June 16, 2008
OffTheBus and NewsTrust.Net ran a little test two weeks ago. It's a crowdsourced week in review feature for high quality John McCain coverage, June 2 to 9. Here's the background and results.
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Christian Right Author Pens Favorable Book On Obama
via TPM Election Central by Eric Kleefeld on June 16, 2008
As Barack Obama works to win evangelical voters who have normally voted Republican, he's picking up an unlikely ally in Steven Mansfield, an evangelical writer who has previously written gushing biographies of George W. Bush and Tom DeLay, and has now written a similar treatment of Obama -- even though he doesn't plan to vote for him!Mansfield's upcoming book, The Faith of Barack...
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The Political Scene: One Angry Man: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
via www.newyorker.com by (author unknown) on June 16, 2008
Is Keith Olbermann changing TV news?
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McClatchy Washington Bureau | 06/15/2008 | America's prison for terrorists often held the wrong men
via www.mcclatchydc.com by (author unknown) on June 16, 2008
Shared by Zach too bad mcclatchy is cutting 10% of its workforce. less room for stories like this...
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In a Changing World of News, an Elegy for Copy Editors
via NYT > News and News Media by By LAWRENCE DOWNES on June 16, 2008
Copy editors are more powerful than proofreaders. They untangle twisted prose. They are surgeons, removing growths of error and irrelevance.
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School paper that ran flag-burning photo gets second chance
via Romenesko by Jim Romenesko on June 16, 2008
Redding.com The Shasta High School Volcano, which was shut down two weeks ago over a photo of a student burning an American flag, will be published again this fall, thanks to student Amanda Cope, who was set to take over as editor-in-chief. She called the district superintendent and asked for a chance to prove that she could make the Volcano a respectable publication. "We're going to give her...
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McClatchy Cutting 10 Percent Of Workforce As May Revenue Falls 15 Percent
via paidContent.org by Joseph Weisenthal on June 16, 2008
Citing a "difficult advertising market" newspaper publisher McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) says it will eliminate about 1,400 positions through voluntary and involuntary means. That comes to about 10 percent of the company's total workforce. In a statement, the company said its workforce had already dropped by about 13 percent over the last two years, strictly through voluntary measures, but the...
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How to nap - Boston.com
via www.boston.com by (author unknown) on June 16, 2008
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