November 2009
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COOL: A word cloud of the Columbia J-school Spring...
Nick Lemann, my boss at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, sometimes says that we’re actually a school of reporting and writing. I agree - a school of reporting with a digital overlay.
To test out this theory, I took the 2010 curriculum guide for our M.S. program and created a word cloud (ie, the most oft-repeated of the top 100 words show up in larger point size, omitting words...
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REQUEST: Judges for National Magazine Awards for...
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From Sree Sreenivasan | sree[a]sree.net | @sreenet on Twitter I am helping the National Magazine Awards find judges for its newly revamped online awards program. I have been involved with the digital category of the awards since 2000 and can tell you that being a judge is among the most productive uses of my time in service of the world of...
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REQUEST: For usability study, CRL seeks, well,...
The Center for Research Libraries does important work that helps libraries and scholars around the world. Last year, CRL’s James Simon invited me to speak on a panel about “How Citizen Journalism and Blogging are Decentralizing News Gathering and Reporting” (a summary of the talk is in this conference report).
This week, James sent me this note:
The Center for Research...
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WEBCAST: Twitter for Skeptical Journos
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Twitter for Skeptical Journalists: A web-based presentation about Twitter for journalists who are skeptical of Twitter (recorded on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2009, via new web-conferencing service, DimDim).
*** Watch the archived recording at this link.
Host Sree Sreenivasan of Columbia Journalism School leads a conversation on what’s to like and not like...
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MEDIA STUFF: The embargo crisis and lions
There’s been a lot of noise and news about news embargoes (see items from Alan Mutter; the Council of Science Editors (PDF) and in Wikipedia).
Against that backdrop, a friend sent me the following item, with a note saying: “Thought you might find this funny. I don’t know why I did. Apparently, some publication just could not wait any longer to break the news about cooperative...
