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We all love hating Wal-Mart. At the same time we all have friends and family who shop there regularly. We tell them they’re ‘ruining the world,’ and when they ask us to elaborate, our explanations are slightly unorganized and convoluted. This is all part of the American experience, and we can handle it because we understand big business tactics. We tolerate it because we’ve seen it before, we know what to do with it, it makes sense.

Or it did, before a New York… Continue

Eric Ulken recently had a feature on his blog in which he compiled a tagcloud of the most frequently appearing terms in the on-line job offers at JournalismJobs.com. Here were his results:

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Late last month Alfred Hermida summarized the views of Dianne Lynch, the dean of journalism at Ithaca College, regarding the future of the news audience which she presented to the Knight Science Fellowship Symposium. Hermida reports:

This is the new audience for news. They grew up in a world where the Internet has always existed and this has changed their social and cultural attitudes.

“The generatio… Continue

Wired Journalist Shawn Smith recently put up a post saying:

I got a message college listserv today from a designer who is looking to score an online news job. They posed the question of what are the “essential components of a good newspaper website?” and what are your favorite online news sites.

I responded that no one newspaper website is the same, as most have different audiences, which call for different functions.

I did say th… Continue