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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

08 Apr 2009 23:52

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Biz, Politics: We’re using this site to protest the Associated Press tomorrow

  • We’re only using AP content tomorrow. Consider it civil disobedience. The Associated Press has made a lot of questionable decisions lately, what with that whole going against bloggers and Google News thing. But the latest takes the cake – they went after a radio station and AP affiliate for embedding a YouTube video on their site. (WTF?) AP put up the embed code on YouTube for people to link. So, as a protest, tomorrow, we’ll only post news from AP sites. We want them to get hits from us because they’re great. We hope the AP understands. source

07 Apr 2009 01:29

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Biz, Politics: Dear Associated Press: You’re not the only game in town

  • The dispute The Associated Press, one of the most-quoted and most-highly-regarded wire services, wants to battle Web sites who use their content – even under commentary and fair use standards – head-on. “We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under some very misguided, unfounded legal theories,” said AP chair Dean Singleton, who we cited directly from an insightful AP article on the topic. source
  • The dispute The Associated Press, one of the most-quoted and most-highly-regarded wire services, wants to battle Web sites who use their content – even under commentary and fair use standards – head-on. “We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under some very misguided, unfounded legal theories,” said AP chair Dean Singleton, who we cited directly from an insightful AP article on the topic.
  • Our suggestion The wire service currently is still debating how to do this, but here’s how we think they should handle it. They should set up a satellite, AP-1, put it into orbit, implant mind chips into their audience and whenever someone even thinks about reading a newspaper article anywhere besides a newspaper, they’ll get a small, corrective electric shock. Sound idiotic, malformed and unrealistic? That’s because it is, just like this stupid idea. source
  • The dispute The Associated Press, one of the most-quoted and most-highly-regarded wire services, wants to battle Web sites who use their content – even under commentary and fair use standards – head-on. “We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under some very misguided, unfounded legal theories,” said AP chair Dean Singleton, who we cited directly from an insightful AP article on the topic.
  • Our suggestion The wire service currently is still debating how to do this, but here’s how we think they should handle it. They should set up a satellite, AP-1, put it into orbit, implant mind chips into their audience and whenever someone even thinks about reading a newspaper article anywhere besides a newspaper, they’ll get a small, corrective electric shock. Sound idiotic, malformed and unrealistic? That’s because it is, just like this stupid idea.
  • We’ll just use Reuters If this crazy idea that a bunch of out-of-touch newspaper publishers conjured up gains legs, it’s OK. There are lots of other places to gather content. And to blame this on blogs and Google News, this is beyond unwise; you could speed up the very road to irrelevancy that you’re trying to prevent with a move like this. Only people who don’t understand the Internet would suggest this idea. Good job screwing it up, old guys. source

30 Mar 2009 10:56

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Biz, U.S.: To the Detroit papers: Fingers crossed today

  • The papers – The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News – will stop delivering to homes most days of the week and will become a product that focuses mainly on box sales and online content. source
  • They’re two of many papers to make a change like this lately, but this one at least seems to be an effort to keep the products alive – the entire editorial staff for both papers is staying put for now. source

29 Mar 2009 22:31

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Tech: The Huffington Post goes all investigative journalism

  • $1.75 million to fund something newspapers are killing source
 

09 Mar 2009 10:48

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Politics: Jon Stewart’s not alone in his CNBC criticism

  • When they are all sitting around the table it’s hard to tell a business pundit versus a reporter.
  • Tom Rosenstiel • Director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, on the way that CNBC often combines reporting and editorializing seamlessly. He said it less funny than Stewart did, though. • source

25 Feb 2009 10:54

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Biz, U.S.: More newspaper death and destruction – in San Francisco

  • The Chronicle’s screwed The San Francisco Chronicle, one of the largest papers in the country, has been bleeding money for years. It lost a modest $50 million last year. Yesterday, it told its staff that it either must cut costs significantly, including workers, or it will die. At the least, it will probably sell. source
  • The Chronicle’s screwed The San Francisco Chronicle, one of the largest papers in the country, has been bleeding money for years. It lost a modest $50 million last year. Yesterday, it told its staff that it either must cut costs significantly, including workers, or it will die. At the least, it will probably sell.
  • The industry sucks A long list of papers, including ones in major cities like Seattle and Denver, are also on death watch right now, and they may not make it through the next month, let alone the next year. Hate to say it, but Mark Andreessen is sounding more right by the day. source

23 Feb 2009 21:44

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Biz, Tech: Netscape founder says print is dead. Screw you, buddy!

  • Stop the presses tomorrow. I’ll tell you what. The stocks would go up. Look at what’s happened to the stocks. This investors are through this. The investors are through the transition.
  • Marc Andreessen • The guy behind NCSA Mosaic, Netscape and Ning, talking about how newspapers should stop killing dead trees on Charlie Rose. Clearly, he’s optimistic. • source