December 31st 2011
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Via: The Miscellaneous Tumbling of Mr Ben Hammersley
December 31st 2011
Post has 1 notes.technology journalism
Via: The Miscellaneous Tumbling of Mr Ben Hammersley
Oliver Reichenstein’s article on building a Business class for news has been getting a lot of…uh…press, so I wanted to share the above link to a similar design that came out of the Design For Service studio course at Carnegie Mellon last year. Selling a premium experience could be a huge boon for readers.
"For every time our body rebels and says “not again!” to another 15-hour flight, eating badly, sleeping worse, in order to repeat the story told a thousand times over, a little inner voice replies: “You are alive, you have to do it.” When others insist that we are heroes or heroines, we are genuinely reluctant to believe them. I’ve never known of a single colleague who has been tortured, or who lives with the threat of death and persecution for their work, in such a confused state of mind that they believe that working in the defence of individual and collective freedoms is an act of heroism. We know full well that it is nothing more than an exercise in survival and shared dignity."
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But there is, nevertheless, a deep-seated European instinct that says the United States might be all right if it would only tweak its attitude towards healthcare, or gun control or the death penalty.
But, of course, it would not exactly be all right - it would just be Britain with bigger portions and better weather.
""The Canadian newspaper market hasn’t been as overwhelmed by digital competitors as the U.S. market,” said Mr. Cruickshank, whose résumé includes time as a reporter and a managing editor at The Globe and Mail. “That may happen. But there’s still a much higher reliance on the national papers and metro papers in Canada. It’s almost cultural."
— In a move many in the industry surely find bewildering, Toronto’s The Globe and Mail has made a nearly $2 billion commitment over 18 years to new printing presses.
From boingboing:
Reading the NYT’s stories about the Iraq War logs, I was struck by how it could get through such gruesome descriptions — fingers chopped off, chemicals splashed on prisoners — without using the word ‘torture.’ …It turns out the NYT has a reputation for studiously avoiding the word, to the point of using bizarre bureaucratic alternatives.
It must be awfully hard work inventing these things. So I thought I’d help out by putting together a torture euphemism generator that the New York Times’ reporters can use to help avoid the T-word in their thumb removal and acid bath coverage.
"For just one old and small mischance,
He has to live in Paris, France.
He’s suffered slurs and other stuff.
Has he not suffered quite enough?
How can these people get so riled?
He only raped a single child."
He has to live in Paris, France.
He’s suffered slurs and other stuff.
Has he not suffered quite enough?
How can these people get so riled?
He only raped a single child."
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Calvin Trillin’s What Whoopi Goldberg (‘Not a Rape-Rape’), Harvey Weinstein (‘So-Called Crime’) et al. Are Saying in Their Outrage Over the Arrest of Roman Polanski, highlighted in this year’s Best American Crime Reporting.
NORTH KOREA’S KIM PAVESWAY FOR FAMILY SUCCESSION
Part of Johnny Selman’s BBCX365 project, creating one poster a day representing one BBC headline.
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If you are looking at the troubled ecology of news…how do you define the problem to be solved? You would accept from the outset that something “historic,” “epochal,” “devastating,” “unprecedented,” “irresistible,” and so on was happening to the news business—all terms I heard used in interviews to describe the challenges facing newspapers in particular and the journalism business more broadly.
“There really is no single cause,” I was told by Josh Cohen, a former Web-news manager for Reuters who now directs Google’s dealings with publishers and broadcasters, at his office in New York. “Rather, you could pick any single cause, and that on its own would be enough to explain the problems—except it’s not on its own.”
"— From “How to Save the News”, a clear, level-headed summary of the issues plaguing the newspaper industry, and the steps Google is taking to alleviate them.
Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder not only documents the war in Afghanistan with traditional digital cameras, he also used an iPhone camera, carried in his flak jacket pocket, coupled with a Polaroid film filter application to photograph the daily lives of Marines, Afghan soldiers and fellow journalists during the military offensive in Marjah, Afghanistan.
Is something doing something to someone you know? Charlie Brooker reports, but first a lackluster establishing shot of a significant location.
