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Learning from “The Rocky Mountain News”

By Jared | Published: March 17, 2009
It’s no secret that newspapers are in trouble. In fact, the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism‘s “State of the News Media” report said the industry “ exited a harrowing 2008 and entered 2009 in something perilously close to free fall.” For media junkies, it’s also not a surprise that “The Rocky Mountain News”  is closing. But [...]
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Spot.us goes live, journalism may yet be saved

By Jared | Published: November 10, 2008
Today, like last week, is another historic day. Not as historic mind you, but pretty good nonetheless. That’s right, Spot.us is live. The brainchild of Dave Cohn seeks to connect the community with journalism on a whole new level — the pocketbook. Spot.us lets people pitch and gather funds so a reporter can write the [...]
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Barack Obama will be the next president

By Jared | Published: November 4, 2008
It’s official. I’m truly unable to express my excitement. Right now I’m sitting in my appartment watching the aftermath on TV while I listen to students running down Broad St. As a journalism student I’m reminded of the everpresent mantra of “objectivity.” To all journalists who cannot appreciate how this election trumps the objectivity defense [...]
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Election day Soundslide

By Jared | Published: November 4, 2008
Being election day, I felt the need to get out and do something since I voted absentee a few weeks ago. Since I couldn’t vote again I decided to talk to the volunteers trying to get Temple Students to go vote. Kevin Inacker, the residential housing director for the Obama campaign at Temple, talked about [...]
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links for October 23rd from 15:36 to 16:34

By jssilfies | Published: October 23, 2008
These are my links for October 23rd from 15:36 to 16:34: Now on Drupal – HamptonRoads.com and PilotOnline.com | groups.drupal.org – Excellent post about sites using Drupal. Great for inspiration. Newspapers on Drupal | groups.drupal.org – Group for newspapers curently or developing their sites on Drupal. Going back to this for ideas. OWC Memory Pro [...]
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