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Noam Chomsky on Newspapers and Democracy

My thanks to the good folks at On The Earth Productions for this clip of Noam Chomsky.

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Ten Ways Journalism School is Teaching Social Media

From Mashable.Com

With news organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media tools, such as the recently appointed social editor at The New York Times, journalism schools are starting to recognize the need to integrate social media into their curricula. That doesn’t mean having a class on Facebook (Facebook) or Twitter (Twitter), which many college students already know inside and out, but instead means that professors are delving into how these tools can be applied to enrich the craft of reporting and producing the news and ultimately telling the story in the best possible way.

And though many professors are still experimenting and learning how these tools can be used, below are the 10 ways journalism schools are currently teaching students to use social media. Please share in the comments others that you have found to be important and effective as well.

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From Gatekeepers to InfoValets

Live coverage of "From Gatekeepers to InfoValets: Work Plans for Sustaining Journalism," May 27, 2009 at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. http://www.journalismtrust.org / http://www.informationvalet.org - Wow - those interstitial ads on ustream are annoyting!

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News Corp To Start Charging for Web Site News

Original article at The Guardian.

 

Rupert ­Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation's newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a ­"malfunctioning" business model.

Encouraged by booming online subscription revenues at the Wall Street Journal, the billionaire media mogul last night said that papers were going through an "epochal" debate over whether to charge. "That it is possible to charge for content on the web is obvious from the Wall Street Journal's experience," he said.

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PBS and Knight Foundation Looking for Input on News Needs

From the PBS Engage Site

We need your input

In today’s media environment – with so many newspapers cutting back on editorial staff, and online media becoming more ever-present each day - do you have the information you need to accomplish your personal goals and to be an effective citizen?

The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy and PBS Engage have teamed up to explore the issues around each citizen's information needs, and we would like to hear from you. See the Commission's draft introduction to its report and please share your answers to our questions below.

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In Praise of the Ill-Informed commentor

Those of us with new media sites all get them - the rant, the illogical, the apparently completely loony anonymouse viewpoint on the news.

This is a defense of the ill-informed anonymous commentor from the former editor of the Washington Post online presence.

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