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Dr Jack Shaheen: "More leadership needed on Park 51 conversation."

The national conversation on the Park 51 Islamic Community Center has taken a turn for the worst. Opponents claim it's too close to the Ground Zero and is offensive to families who lost loved ones in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. Others call it a breeding ground for Al Qaida terrorist networks and have protested at the proposed site. The controversy has brought out the worst in people. Fear, ignorance, prejudice, Islamop… Continue

Added by Christian Avard on August 29, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Foursquare's Twitter account link privacy flaw

A potential privacy loophole has been uncovered in the location based social network, Foursquare. The company made much of their improved privacy settings in the wake of Facebook implementing their own location based check in system, but one privacy aspect seems to have slipped through the net.

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Added by Andrew Watt on August 21, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

Job opening: Mine—Assistant Editor of New Media for Sound Publishing

Hey, everyone. I'm leaving Sound Publishing in the next few weeks for KIRO TV in Seattle and I'm looking for someone to replace me. Here's a link to the job description and here's a blog post with some more insight on what the job entails.

Feel free to contact me through my profile, or o

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Added by Paul Balcerak on August 13, 2010 at 4:29pm — No Comments

Your Personal Photographer by John McEvoy Photographer- Visual Journalist As a Photojournalist, I ca…

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Added by John McEvoy on August 10, 2010 at 6:28pm — No Comments

Some thoughts on Net Neutrality

At Ink-Drained Kvetch I've rounded up some perspectives on what the reported Google/Verizon discussions (disputed by both) might mean for content creators as well as consumers.

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Added by Wendy Parker on August 6, 2010 at 11:35am — No Comments

My online newspaper pay wall conflict

This is a subject that will be close to many Wired Journalists' hearts

I've written on my site about a journalists' conflict between wanting newspapers to make money, and the problems that causes.

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Added by Bill Bennett on August 4, 2010 at 1:24am — No Comments

Forecastle 2010 Interview with Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips

Forecastle 2010 Interview with Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips from Patrick Yen on Vimeo.

Interview with Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips for the 2010 Forecastle Festival.

Interview by Cory Greenwell,
Production by Patrick Yen.

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Added by Patrick Yen on July 26, 2010 at 12:12am — No Comments

How should news sites handle (adverse) feedback after a major redesign?

How should news sites handle dissati… Continue

Added by Ramachandran on July 23, 2010 at 1:02pm — No Comments

Deal Or No Deal

Noel Edmonds' career has come full circle. From waking up the nation's youth with Keith Chegwin on a Saturday morning i… Continue

Added by Andrew Watt on July 9, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Gail Dines: How “Pornland” destroys intimacy and hijacks sexuality

The following interview first appeared at PULSE. I hope this interview provides some context and perspective for all journalists on how to cover the effects of pornography. - Christian Avard

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Added by Christian Avard on June 29, 2010 at 9:00pm — No Comments

HISD travel records show wasted taxpayer dollars, poor planning, toothless travel rules

The educators conference was announced about a year in advance. It was in
Columbus, Ohio, in October 2008. Plenty of lead time to make travel
arrangements, nailing down cheap flights.

Instead, teachers and administrators from the

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Added by Lynn Walsh on June 11, 2010 at 11:55am — No Comments

Somali Radio Station Stormed, Equipment Looted

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is deeply concerned about the Al-Shabaab group’s attack on Radio Somaliweyn’s premises in Mogadishu’s Boondheere district on Friday morning (21 May 2010), around 9:00am and took all the equipment, amid heavy fighting was underway in the neighbourhood, the latest in a string of attacks against the independent media.

The Al-Shabaab took all the equipments, including the computers, the FM transmitter a… Continue

Added by Ahmednor Mohamed Farah on May 27, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

Somali journalist in the camp complained 4 years of no development and frustration

A Somali journalist in the camp complained 4 years of no development and frustration.

The Somali Journalist Rights Agency (SOJRA) would like to

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Added by Daud Abdi Daud on May 19, 2010 at 3:20pm — No Comments

AEJMC: Journalism Schools as News Providers: Challenges and Opportunities

Academics who are planning to attend the AEJMC annual August convention in Denver might want to sign up for the preconvention conference: Journalism Schools as News Providers:… Continue

Added by Leonard Witt on May 19, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

I am loving Scribd

Posting PDFs as links is often not a very inviting way to use them. Scribd allows you to add a pdf viewer right on a story or blog post. It is clean, easy to use. The only catch is that you are sharing the doc when you upload it, so you have to have permission to do it. For public documents, you are golden. Continue

Added by Gretchen Macchiarella on May 14, 2010 at 1:02pm — 1 Comment

Some more thoughts on redefining journalism

Over at Ink-Drained Kvetch, where I blog about media and journalism topics, I round up some recent links on defining journalism and Google's experimentation with the news.

The latter is James Fallow's lengthy piece at The Atlantic that I highly recommend.

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Added by Wendy Parker on May 12, 2010 at 12:27pm — No Comments

A Somali journalist family house in Galkacyo town were raided

A Somali journalist family house in Galkacyo town were raided.

The Somali Journalist Rights Agency (SOJRA) concerns over the armed group

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Added by Daud Abdi Daud on May 9, 2010 at 3:54pm — No Comments

Prominent Somali Journalist Shot dead in Mogadishu tonight

The Somali Journalist Rights Agency (SOJRA) would like to announce the death of the first Somali journalist in this year 2010.

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Added by Daud Abdi Daud on May 4, 2010 at 2:50pm — No Comments

20-year-old Discusses Winning Business Plan to Reinvent Journalism

Want to feel better about the future of journalism? Then read this IM Interview Leonard Witt conducts with Jesse Villanueva,, the 20-year-old advertising director of San Diego State University’s The Daily Aztec. He won the
first First National Sustainable Journalism Concept-2-Reality… Continue

Added by Leonard Witt on May 4, 2010 at 12:05pm — No Comments