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Needed: A newsroom of reporters who can break news
The New Media is beginning to look a lot like the Old Media, even down to the need for ink-stained wretches. “It’s no longer enough to take stories from The New York Times, and add a dash of snark. Gawker needs to break and develop more stories.” Maybe, Nick Denton, the high octane founder of…
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Talk it up
Katie Allison Granju and WBIR are up to something new. From the About Us: KnoxvilleTalks.com offers lively and opinionated conversation for East Tennessee’s lively and opinionated blogging community. Hosted by WBIR, KnoxvilleTalks is managed and edited by WBIR.com Online Producer and newsroom blogger Katie Allison Granju. E-mail Katie at [email protected] with your comments and suggestions.…
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Dispatches from the homefront battle
It’s hard to see this as “cyclical:” In a historic first, online media companies collectively will sell more ads in local markets this year than such individual hometown media as newspapers, broadcasters and yellow pages, says an independent research firm. — Reflections of a Newsosaur