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Looking at a new degree system for journalism education - Knight Foundation
Eric Newton’s proposed new degree structure for journalism and...
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Science Photo of the Day: The Bright, Burning Sun
The good people of NASA took images captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory and...
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Nope, it’s not easy, but we do it all for love. <3
Article from Foreign Policy on Wikileaks. Interesting look inside.
For the most part, blogging is not journalism. That’s my response to the longstanding debate about whether bloggers are journalists. Bloggers who don’t apply good standards of journalism shouldn’t be offered the same privileges as journalists. Similarly, journalists who fail to apply the same good standards should be stripped of privileges and prestige.
The basic principle is this: There are at least two sides to any story, usually more. Real journalists present all sides of a story, using multiple sources for balance and doing original reporting wherever possible. A quick survey of blogs reveals that many bloggers reporting news generally offer one side of the story. This one-sided difference is partly responsible for the Web being polluted by gossip, rumor and innuendo posing as news.
“News no longer breaks, it tweets - demonstrating the efficiency, momentum, and influence of the human network.”
