Journalism, Technology, History

Fellowship opp

This may be of interest: Ted Scripps Fellowships in ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM University of Colorado at Boulder “The program was better than I expected, mainly because of the educational opportunity. Once I realized how much I did not know, it truly...

Anonymity, we want to know thy name

The debate over anonymous commenters on the Internet got amped Nov. 29 whenJulie Zhuo, product design manager at Facebook, threw her hat into the ring with an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times challenging content providers to discourage or...

Clarifying the perfectly clear is to muddle

This move to “clarify” the laws looks like an attempt to close more government records in Tennessee. State Rep. Vince Dean said it ‘makes sense’ that any e-mail sent on a public computer would be a public record. But the...

Let's see there's AP, Reuters, CNN and Twitter

 …there is something interesting in what (Twitter founder Biz) Stone seemed to be describing: using the massive stream of 100 million tweets a day that flows through Twitter as the basis of a kind of digital-age Associated Press or Reuters...

WNOX, a beacon in radio history

In my Google Alerts over the weekend was a piece from the Arcane Radio Trivia blog on the history of WNOX. It reminded me of Knoxville’s rich radio history, particularly with WNOX, the first radio station in Tennessee (yes the...

An ending almost like truth, justice and apple pie

Last month an article, “American as Apple Pie – Isn’t,” was placed in error in Cooks Source, without the approval of the writer, Monica Gaudio. We sincerely wish to apologize to her for this error. We have made a donation...

A Cooks Source smorgasbord

This one quickly went past simmer until done to just microwave on high and forget the timer. Doug Fisher has a good set links to pieces on it. It’s outrageous example of unashamed theft by copyright infringement.
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