Emory Student Gives Journalist Her Facebook Login Info

While it’s ugly and disgraceful that Atlanta’s Emory University has been the scene of on-campus incidents of obvious intolerance between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli students, what’s almost as distasteful is the thought of giving a journalist, of any stripe, one’s user ID and password info to one’s personal Facebook account -  just to prove a point.
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The Look Of New Media Coming Soon

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ANP – Building The New Journalism Army

This mercifully short video accomplishes so much: it is not only watchable, with compelling music to get us beyond simple talking heads, it wets the appetite for more.
It makes the viewer want to explore what James Risen, the National Security reporter for the NYT, knows. Risen obviously knows a lot. Much more than [...]

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Caroline Kennedy To Save Old Media!

Now that Caroline Kennedy has been cured of her allergy to the Democratic Party, she should certainly be designated Senator from New York just because she feels like it. Think of how a slide show a day of old Kennedy family photos could breath life into old, flagging media plantations!
The never-flagging, trend-setting Huffington Post shows [...]

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This Ain’t No Mud Club. No CBGB. I Ain’t Got Time For That Now.

Lemme ask you Dear Reader… would you waste your precious time teaching social media apps and skills to a group of (laid off likely) professional… let me say that again… PROFESSIONAL journalists who had made such pitiful personal forays/investments into new media that they had no personal laptop to bring to the party/workshoppe? That, rather, [...]

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TV Today: Good Thing, Bad Thing?

Oh dear. I am not sure how to react to all this breaking TV news today. Item #1, and of utmost importance in the big scheme of things. From Reuters:
CBS is saying aloha to a new installment of “Hawaii Five-O.”
The new take on the popular crime drama, which aired on CBS from 1968 [...]

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Old Media Geezer? New Media Wants You Out of the Way.

At the rate journalists are blogging now, seems they don’t want to wait for Old Media dead-wood types to just politely die-off. From a story from the American Journalism Review titled: Murky Boundaries: What are the guidelines for the personal blogs of journalists who for for mainstream news organizations?
According to Tom Regan, like Moor [...]

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Media Culture Clash

Old Media “slow and unresponsive?” Say it isn’t so. From TVNewswer today:
The New York Times’ Brian Stelter writes about former ABC correspondent Amanda Congdon, who has returned to her roots as a video blogger.
In September, Congdon left ABC News after a brief stint with the network.
Now Stelter reports Congdon is moving back to the web. [...]

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New Media Tells Old Media What’s Journalism Now

From Southern Political Report’s Tom Baxter:

Convinced (former Alabama Governor) Siegelman was guilty and ready to move on, they (traditional media) were bailing out of the story just as the new media was beginning to pay attention. Since Siegelman’s conviction, the story has been kept alive on the internet — notably on the blog Horton writes [...]

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