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Twitter is happy to proclaim it’s ready to replace the Associated Press when it comes to breaking news. Twitter users beat AP by nine minutes with news of this week’s Southern California earthquake. While the quality or depth of the work may not be comparable to that of professional journalists, many people enjoy immediacy and [...]

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MediaStorm is a small company of just six people. But the “multimedia production company”s is having an impact on photojournalism by taking still images, video or audio tape, and then looking for a story to fit the material. After adding a narrative, you have a group of short chapters that do not follow any particular [...]

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There’s a bill in Congress that would provide protection for journalists from naming those anonymous sources they come up with from time-to-time. Former newspaper guy Carter Wood thinks it’s a bad idea and he explains why in a Forbes article. Wood suggests the law could be used as a cover for illegal activity. Whether the [...]

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