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In search of the formula for gut instinct
Will news judgment eventually be reduced to a formula that can be charted or is it best practiced by those, like Neetzan Zimmerman, with a particularly good gut instinct for what is news, or at lesat what will grab reader’s attention? Or, like in baseball, will there be quite a bit of space for both?…
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Students reinventing journalism at MTSU
I’m interested to see what the “Bragg Innovative News Network” looks like when it launches Monday. The network was announced by Middle Tennessee State University earlier this week. BINN, as it’s being called, is a concept developed by nine MTSU students who aim to “knock down the traditional foundations of a journalism education” with cross-platform…
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Paywalls aren’t just for newspapers
Nice piece by NetNewsCheck on the plan by Cincinnati television station WCPO, owned by E.W. Scripps, to launch a paid-content model in January. “This is a very aggressive experiment, and I guess I’d be pleased if they’re scratching their heads because that means that they’re not going to compete with us in the short term,”…