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20 Apr 2009 02:06

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About: Hey guys! We’re looking for Summer interns in D.C. Learn more here.

  • Who you are You’re a college student who’s into journalism. You live in D.C. You like to write. You have naturally good grammar and your words are loaded with personality. You aren’t long-winded. (This is important.) You’re a newshound. You get the Internet and pop culture. You read DCist, Gawker and TechCrunch and think, “Hey, I can do that.” You want to build experience. You’re self-motivated. You like coffee shops. You hate ties. source
  • Who you are You’re a college student who’s into journalism. You live in D.C. You like to write. You have naturally good grammar and your words are loaded with personality. You aren’t long-winded. (This is important.) You’re a newshound. You get the Internet and pop culture. You read DCist, Gawker and TechCrunch and think, “Hey, I can do that.” You want to build experience. You’re self-motivated. You like coffee shops. You hate ties.
  • Who we are We’re a blog. We’re based in D.C. We focus on telling lots of good information in small amounts of space. We pull content from all corners of the Internet and grab the most interesting details. We recontextualize and add personality. We like short sentences and telling good stories. We have hundreds of followers on Twitter and some influential fans. We’re self-motivated. We like coffee shops. We hate ties. source
  • Who you are You’re a college student who’s into journalism. You live in D.C. You like to write. You have naturally good grammar and your words are loaded with personality. You aren’t long-winded. (This is important.) You’re a newshound. You get the Internet and pop culture. You read DCist, Gawker and TechCrunch and think, “Hey, I can do that.” You want to build experience. You’re self-motivated. You like coffee shops. You hate ties.
  • Who we are We’re a blog. We’re based in D.C. We focus on telling lots of good information in small amounts of space. We pull content from all corners of the Internet and grab the most interesting details. We recontextualize and add personality. We like short sentences and telling good stories. We have hundreds of followers on Twitter and some influential fans. We’re self-motivated. We like coffee shops. We hate ties.
  • What we want We have one to two unpaid internships available between mid-May and August. We have years of writing, editing and design experience in the newspaper industry, and we’ll bestow it on you. You get a built-in, growing audience that is literate of the Web and will hang on your every word. You set your own hours (although we’ll hold you to at least 5-10 hours a week). You work in a coffee shop. No ties. Curious? Send a resume. source

11 Apr 2009 12:56

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Politics, Tech: “Can social networking save journalism?,” Techcrunch asks

  • Perhaps good journalists, intuitive and ambitious journalists, might figure out how to survive this Darwinian state of media evolution on their own. Others may need the help of early risk-takers and success stories before being able to individually adapt to the socialization of content.
  • Brian Solis • In a long piece about the future of journalism – not newspapers, journalism. “Can the Statusphere Save Journalism?” was inspired in part by a conversation with Walt Mossberg. Intriguing thoughts, dude. You’re a regular Clay Shirky. • source

10 Apr 2009 20:47

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Biz, Politics, Tech: Huffington: Consumer habits have changed, AP.

  • Consumer habits have changed dramatically. People have gotten used to getting the news they want, when they want it, how they want it, and where they want it. And this change is here to stay.
  • Arianna Huffington • Talking about newspapers, the media and her role in the whole mess with The Huffington Post. She was on Charlie Rose this week debating the topic with Tom Curley of the Associated Press and said some really insightful things. Huffington knows what she’s talking about. • source

19 Mar 2009 00:15

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Politics: OK, who’s the smart aleck laid-off Seattle journo who put this up?

Ah, to be jobless in Seattle and call out Thomas Jefferson on his iconic quote. source

12 Mar 2009 10:11

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Biz, U.S.: Hey look, a big graphic on how much newspapers are sucking

See the bigger dot that says “Milwaukee Journal Sentinel?” I used to work there. Good luck, all. source

27 Feb 2009 10:22

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Biz, U.S.: This last Rocky cover is really sad. Like really. :(

You just want to give the staff a big hug and say everything will be OK. source

26 Feb 2009 22:38

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Biz, U.S.: OK, last newspaper article for now: Who killed the Rocky?

This site uses AJAX to pin blame on the death of the Rocky. Scripps is winning. source
 

26 Feb 2009 22:31

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Biz, U.S.: Are newspaper JOAs a dying breed? Denver hints at it.

  • What are JOAs? Joint operating agreements were implemented in the 1970s as a way to help two-newspaper towns retain multiple journalistic voices. More than two dozen cities across the country used JOAs as a way to separate the advertising from the journalism. source
  • What are JOAs? Joint operating agreements were implemented in the 1970s as a way to help two-newspaper towns retain multiple journalistic voices. More than two dozen cities across the country used JOAs as a way to separate the advertising from the journalism.
  • Failing left & right JOAs once helped Detroit, Denver and Seattle keep their newspapers alive. All three are struggling to stay afloat. Denver, obviously, just closed the Rocky. Detroit is cutting back deliveries to three days a week. And Seattle could lose the Post-Intelligencer. source
  • What are JOAs? Joint operating agreements were implemented in the 1970s as a way to help two-newspaper towns retain multiple journalistic voices. More than two dozen cities across the country used JOAs as a way to separate the advertising from the journalism.
  • Failing left & right JOAs once helped Detroit, Denver and Seattle keep their newspapers alive. All three are struggling to stay afloat. Denver, obviously, just closed the Rocky. Detroit is cutting back deliveries to three days a week. And Seattle could lose the Post-Intelligencer.
  • Why it didn’t work SImple – the system eventually didn’t make economic sense. The advertisers would favor one paper over the other, and the stronger paper would eventually hold the weaker one up. E.W. Scripps, by they way, has been involved in half a dozen failed JOAs. source

26 Feb 2009 22:10

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Biz, U.S.: Key stats of the dying Rocky Mountain News

  • 150 years old, the age of the newspaper, the oldest in the state of Colorado. Well, almost – the Rocky died just before it could reach the mark. source

26 Feb 2009 21:52

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Biz, U.S.: Scripps CEO on the Rocky’s death: Denver not a two-paper town

  • Denver can’t support two newspapers any longer. It’s certainly not good news for you, and it’s certainly not good news for Denver.
  • Rich Boehne • CEO of E.W. Scripps Co., on why the company that decided to close one of the city’s two daily newspapers. *Eyeroll* • source