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Media corrections and our social reputations
The modern news cycle has been diminished to a matter of minutes — even less on services like Twitter. And it seems to just…
Occupy Twitter in the name of the global citizen
Twitter can now censor tweets by country. National borders, drawn on paper and defended with razor wire and guns in the physical world, now…
Magazine mindset undermines tablet opportunity
The rush by media owners to embrace tablets borders on the unseemly. And who can blame them given the continued decline of print revenue…
Mandela ‘death’ hoax exposes weakness of Twitter as news platform
The retweet didn’t kill the newsman, after all. As it turns out, the growth of Twitter simply reiterates the essential role of journalists in…
Emerging market journos embrace social media, unlike Western news brands
The stringent social media policies adapted by some Western newsrooms indicate an inflexibility in adapting to a changed information and news environment. This has…
What WikiLeaks means for a government’s assault on media freedom
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The rise of eBooks and the myth of affordability
Major drum roll from the guys at Amazon.com for their announcement that “Amazon.com customers now purchase more Kindle books (eBooks) than hardcover books.” The…
When tweeting an opinion is a fireable offence, media loses
Last week CNN fired one of its senior editors, Octavia Nasr, after she paid her respects in a tweet following the death of a…
Twitter breaks news, but will it break journalism?
Twitter’s value to breaking news quickly and efficiently is beyond doubt, but the accuracy of the news being reported is far from perfect. This…
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