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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…
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Reading is fundamental
Read The Bill from Sunlight Foundation on Vimeo. It’s not a novel, but it would be novel to read legislation before it’s voted on. There’s a petition you can sign.