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Carl Malamud for Public Printer of the U.S.
I can’t think of anyone more qualified in the Digital Age to be the government’s head printer than Carl Malamud. Find out about his campaign to become the federal government’s printer and why that would change America. Malamud, who was responsible for putting SEC filings online, has more recently has been grabbing huge chunks of…
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Journalism is not a federal earmark
Dave Winer, a guy who loves news and, who among his many pioneering achievements, put the New York Times into RSS, says the newsroom curmudgeons who bitterly opine “those bloggers are killing journalism; who’ll do reporting then” just have it wrong. Journalism is being killed because “the sources got blogs” …and Twitter … and, well,…
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Records behind bars
SPJ has joined an open records battle in Tennessee. INDIANAPOLIS – The Society of Professional Journalists has joined an amicus brief written by the Tennessee ACLU supporting a magazine that won an open records battle in its quest to cover and analyze prisoners’ rights. The brief supports the appeal of Prison Legal News, which is…