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USA Today founder Al Neurharth offered a defense of newspapers in the Friday edition of the paper. He tells us the print industry has a “bright future”. Neurharth bases this on a few circulation figures. What he fails to mention is that these are the exceptions that prove the rule. Neurharth gives circulation numbers for [...]

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NPR’s Marketplace ran a story this week called Newspapers seek new business models. The idea: Newspapers are no longer in the newspaper business but in the information business. Gannett’s attempt to generate new revenue streams is leading its reporters to spend time “updating a blog. Assigning videos. Writing TV scripts” and “producing glossy magazines”. It’s [...]

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While searching for DSLR cameras that I plan to buy “sometime soon”, I came across this color image from 1915 processed by Sergey Gorsky.

He used a very simple technique of shooting same frame on black and white film using 3 color filters red, blue and green and then superimposed to get colored pictures.

In contrast, it [...]

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Angry Grammarian Jeffrey Barg complains in the Philadelphia Weekly about the capitalization of Web and Internet but not website or intranet. Barg blames the inconsistencies on short-sightedness newspapers. Print journalists and the Associated Press, according to Barg, failed to understand what was happening on the internet.

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Technology is making students “lazy and deficient”. That’s the view of a Emory University English professor. Mark Bauerlein suggests the idea in his new book The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30).

Are youth really brain dead because of all the time spent [...]

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Live News Cameras is collection of live video streams from around the world. Moderators guide viewers to breaking stories.

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If you pause when you see a police chase on TV news, you might find Air Fox Live interesting to watch. You can get behind the scenes with this mashup of a Google Map with the movements of a Chicago TV station’s helicopter. You can even call up the current speed and heading of the [...]

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There’s been a few bumps in the road for the Journalism Department at the University of Mississippi as it becomes a School of Journalism.

Mississippi Public Radio tries to sort out why there’s been secrecy and a dispute over what to call it in the story below.

At the same time, the prestigious Medill School of [...]

 

 Ole Miss School of Journalism [4:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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On the scene reports about China’s devastating earthquake have the Internet buzzing. Despite China’s tight grip on media, citizen journalists are being credited with getting news out of the country in photos, videos, maps, and personal diaries. The stories of victims and remarkable rescues are moving unfiltered from the original source to computers and cell [...]

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May 10th became a day to mark on our calendars. Filmmakers, artists, business capitalists with the help of Nokia did an amazing feat of starting celebration of the planet, celebration of Mother Earth, simultaneously happening all across the world.

The organizers invited the entries by releasing this video on youtube on September 10, 2007. Pangea Day [...]

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