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Christiane Badgley, for The Pulitzer Center
What happens when a major American oil company comes through two poor African countries with a project to drill for oil in one and transport it across the other?
Dreams. Fantasies. Unrealistic expectations. False hopes. As Samuel Nguiffo, founder of the Center [...]
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Newspaper folks used to think that, while everyone has his own ax to grind, most people were grinding one or another version of the same couple of axes. The length and brand name might be different, but, as we were taught, there were two sides to a story, we tried [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 5:04pm EST
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Number of comments: 0 Very happy to report that a certain book editor at a large paper in the Midwest has agreed to donate the proceeds of her next newsroom book sale to support ACES scholarships. She, as do a handful of others, offers the newspaper staff cut-rate prices of books sent her for [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:55pm EST by Pam
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Number of comments: 1 How do you tell the difference between Fox News and the News & Observer, the purportedly liberal bastion of journalism in the capital of North Carolina? When it comes to clueless stoking of popular stupidity about social science research, you don't! It's easy to see why " Sex [...]
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Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:05pm EST by fev
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Number of comments: 1 How long ago is 'a long time ago'? The answer, my friends, is 2006 - at least according to my PC. I've been uploading some video files to our publication's YouTube account. The videos are show reports dating from 2008, 2007 and 2006 - here's the full list: [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Quickly wrapping up some other interesting sessions: Thom Baggerman, Capital had an interesting two-part presentation, first what is the archetype of a good multimedia site and second how is that being carried out by newspapers and in cases where there is newspaper and TV co-ownership in a market. His [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Catching up on some things from Thursday's sessions, who would have thought we'd have so much about Canada? Good stuff, and it points out how we need to broaden our research perspectives (yes, folks, consider that a pitch to contribute articles to The Convergence Newsletter). In separate presentations [...]
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Q: My grandma has a question about the word ?formidable.? She?s read that it has two meanings that are opposite of each other, and she was wondering if that?s correct. A: "Formidable" has three related meanings: (1) arousing fear or apprehension; (2) inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder (similar to [...]
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Number of comments: 4 Seems like a good day to wrap up Paranoid Style Week, doesn't it? Let's turn to the comments section on the Lede blog at the Nation's Newspaper of Record, discussing the Fort Hood killings: Stories aren't adding up here. First we're told by the government the main shooter [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:05pm EST by fev
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Number of comments: 1 Andrea Guzman just finished a fascinating session on research into newspapers in Second Life (example, the Herald). She was trying to do a content analysis on the papers. I won't get into all the details, which look a lot better in graphs anyhow. But I did take [...]
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Number of comments: 2 Dennis Jeffers, Carol McGinnis, Lori Brost, Sean Baker, Central Michigan Wide variations, but one commonality ? online, radio sites are a dead zone. Why Michigan? Diverse media. Among worst economies in the nation, so media having to take more drastic steps. Urban Dailies ? canaries I the [...]
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Returning to the theme of the Sept. 3 post "What If," about Howard Owens' view that online should have been set up from the get-go as a separate unit: Judy Sims, who alas was recently relieved of her job at the Toronto Star (which, even more alas, seems ready [...]
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Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:04pm EST
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Number of comments: 0 Linda Matchan, Photography by Michele McDonald, for the Pulitzer Center The other day, on a bitterly cold morning in Igloolik, Michele and I suited up in four or five layers and started walking to the airport to meet up with Artcirq, the Arctic circus. They were heading to Iqaluit to rehearse [...]
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Number of comments: 0 The Twitter Feed for the Convergence Conference is using the hashtag #cconf09 [...]
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Number of comments: 0 Tony DeMars, Texas A&M: HD Radio and local market broadcasting Recent studies in general show: ? People are paying attention to digital radio ? People are interested in listening to online radio in car ? Younger people less interested in radio ? tend to focus on personal music devices [...]
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Number of comments: 2 Jonathan Lillie, Loyola-Maryland: Newspaper journalists as multimediators Exploratory study of audio slide show producers ? ended up with 30 papers ? Most doing it are photojournalists (27). Others: multimedia specialists (16) ? Most self-trained ? Almost all use Soundslides? On average create one or two a [...]
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Number of comments: 0 I'm at the "Convergence and Society" conference in Reno the next couple of days and will be trying to do regular updates (as long as the battery holds out). The first session today is "The changing media landscape," but what we are finding is that not all that [...]
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Q: I saw this sentence on Slate: ?Bush came up with the plan to put 10 anti-missile interceptors and radars on Czech and Polish soil in 2007, and the Russians have been clamoring about it ever since.? Can one clamor ?about? something? I thought one could only clamor ?for? [...]
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Number of comments: 6 Some Things We Couldn't Help Notice The Secret History of Swine Flu... Revealed. A Dynamic as Inevitable as Rainfall. Spewers of hatred inevitably become targets of violence themselves. For teletyrant Lou Dobbs, a latter-day Father Coughlin in pancake makeup, and his disgusting campaign against immigrants, he's merely [...]
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Number of comments: 4  In these harried times, one of the most important services a desk can provide for busy readers is to "cut the clutter" so they can "get to the point" and "save time." Let's practice on this AP lede! THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. [...]
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Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:25pm EST by fev
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Number of comments: 9  Listen to Your Father 'My father always told me you don't get anything for nothing, and although I was always rebelling, I never rebelled against that.' --actor and director Clint Eastwood, from a new biography on his life. We couldn't help noticing the applause [...]
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No doubt you have seen the ads for mortgage insurance plans and even car company offers that promise to take care of your monthly payments or take the car back if you lose your job. Read the plans carefully; they are full of qualifiers. The Associated Press provided a rundown of [...]
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Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:05pm EST
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Number of comments: 2  This sentence from my own paper contains an obvious problem: About 10 p.m. on July 9, Gary Condit and his lawyer met lead Detective Ralph Durant in the dimly lit parking lot behind the Giant supermarket on Wisconsin Avenue near the National Cathedral. Cooler heads [...]
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Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:43am EST by Bill
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