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As the multimedia news streams grows and content supplied by "users" becomes part of the news, new jobs are popping up. The latest is "group multimedia editor" for the Glasgow Herald, says Editors Weblog: "John Young, former picture editor of the Glasgow Evening Times, will...Police get 'Cop-Nav' radio
A scheme costing taxpayers £250million called the Automated Personal Location System – known as 'CopNav' –where microchips are installed into radio headsets is to be issued to all London's...Church organist dies as funeral
" A CHURCH organist collapsed and died in front of shocked mourners at a funeral."Bin Laden warns Europe over Mohammed cartoons
"Washington (ANTARA News/AFP) - Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden warned Europe Wednesday it faced a "reckoning" for the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published in Danish newspapers, according to a US monitoring group. In a recorded message addressed to the "intelligent...Spitzer and Virgin: from Regrets to Ad Text
Way to keep it classy... Virgin Mobile's Canadian property has capitalized (or capitalised) on soon-to-be-ex-Governor Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal. The remarkable thing here is Virgin's fast...
created by Jordan Yerman | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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More Americans prefer online news: survey
As the article points out toward the end, the fact we get news online doesn't mean the old institutions are dead--since online news still relies on wires--it just means they're dying. What the new news sources...
Alleged JFK love-child's mother: He ain't no JFK
Well that certainly puts one rumour to rest, whereby a transplanted Texan living in Vancouver has his mother to thank for exposing his fantasy life of a Kennedy."Alleged JFK love-child's mother: He ain't no JFK
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created by Barry ORegan | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Time Layoffs: Another Death Knell For Print Media?
Print media is having a rough week. TIME just laid off 100 people and the NYTimes also announced staff cuts. This all points to an uncertain future for print."You can run, but you can’t hide from reality. And the longer you run, the quicker you realize that you...'McCanns are the real soap' - journalism and Madeleine McCann
The media world and the world's media are still enthralled by another soap - Kate and Gerry McCann and the saga of their missing daughter Madeleine. There are only three facts in this story. http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/080218mccann.shtmlSix-Inch Brandy is World's Smallest Dog
I have a pet guinea pig (long story) and it could kick this thing's butt... six-inch-long Brandy, a sort-of-chihuahua-looking thing, just entered the Guinness Book of Records as the World's Smallest Dog. She... Bloggers show journalistic integrity, call out New York Times
Blogoshpere full of bloggers mindful of media ethics. Launch attack on New York Times “vets kill in America” story in a series.
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The Scrooge Report:
Across America, Dangerous Lies From a New York Newsroom
Town by town across the country, headlines...
created by TheBigRuski | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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450 views | 6 recommendations | 4 comments
Elect your Favorite Furry Feline: True New Hampshire fashion, the voice of th...
"In true New Hampshire fashion, we will rely on the voice of the people to decide who will rule Mount Washington. Since the earliest days of the Mount Washington Observatory in the 1930's, felines have accompanied...
created by Albert Milliron | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Top 2007 media screw ups
One of my journalism instructors tried to convince all his students that the profession is in a "state of crisis" because the public doesn't trust the media. This article is a lengthy list of solid reasons...
created by Rob Peters | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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1181 views | 15 recommendations | 4 comments
First Drive: 2008 Fiat 500 - Mini Test Road Tests
"Retro is still cool, according to Fiat, which has already tapped into its past for a new badge and created a fashionable range of merchandise featuring its logo style from the 1920s. The latest Fiat...
created by infomatique | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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Exorcists Wanted
"THE Pope is setting up exorcism squads to tackle the growth of Satanism, it emerged yesterday. Church chiefs are concerned at the rise in the occult as people lose faith in Christianity. Bishops will have priests...
created by Paul Conneally | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago
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