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The Rise of the Professional Blogger

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Benjamin Carlson - Sep. 13 (Opinion) - Today, the romantic notion that solitary, untamed bloggers are running the Web is more fantasy than fact—nearly as apocryphal as old myths about stoic Western sheriffs killing 11 outlaws with six bullets.

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Froomkin hired by Huffington Post

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Jul. 07 (Opinion) - In yet another sign of how online media outlets are strengthening as their older establishment predecessors are struggling to survive, The Huffington Post has hired Dan Froomkin to be its Washington Bureau Chief and regular columnist/blogger. Froomkin will oversee a staff of four five reporters and an Assistant Editor, guide The Huffington Post's Washington reporting, and write at least two posts per week to be featured on its main page and Politics page. I learned last night of the hiring and spoke to both Arianna Huffington and Froomkin this morning. Under still-unclear circumstances, which executives refuse to discuss even with their own Ombudsman, Froomkin was fired by The Washington Post a little more than two weeks ago after writing an online column for almost six years that was one of that newspaper's most popular. Almost immediately upon the reporting of Froomkin's firing, screenwriter Nora Ephron, an Editor-at-Large for The Huffington Post, emailed Huffington with a one-line note: "I hope we're hiring him." Within hours, Huffington called Froomkin, met with him in Washington last week, and a deal was finalized this week. That was just one of numerous overtures Froomkin received from various media outlets interested in hiring him (Salon was one such outlet expressing preliminary interest, but both Froomkin and Salon believed that much of what I do here already overlaps with much of the work he does).

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Update to the update on “Hey, Limbaugh” 5/8/2009

Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

agweb.com - By Steve Cornett - May. 08 (Opinion) - In an earlier update, we wondered why Rush Limbaugh is stonewalling on his support for the Humane Society of the United States. One response accuses this reporter of not listening to Mr. Limbaugh, offering the challenge, “Listen, and then we can talk about where he stands on the issues.” Of course I listen to Limbaugh, as does just about everybody I know. I listen and mostly I agree. His support of the animal rights agenda has lowered him in my opinion, and by a lot. No, wait. It’s not his support for the movement. It’s his failure to own up and explain why he thinks that way.

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Public Transit Users More Likely to Reach Physical Activity Targets

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

obesitypanacea.blogspot.com - By Travis Saunders - Apr. 17 (Interview) - By building activity into your daily routine, you can ensure that you’re getting at least some physical activity on even the busiest days. . . . Although taking public transit may not seem like the most obvious way to increase your physical activity levels, a recent study by Ugo Lachapelle and Larry Frank at the University of British Columbia suggests that this might be the case.

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Rosen's Flying Seminar In The Future of News

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Press Think - By Jay Rosen - Mar. 26 (Opinion) - The pace quickened after Clay Shirky's Thinking the Unthinkable. Here's my best-of from a month of deep think as people came to terms with the collapse of the newspaper model, and tried looking ahead. I know these twelve links work. I tested them on Twitter. As the crisis in newspaper journalism grinds on, people watching it are trying to explain how we got here, and what we’re losing as part of the newspaper economy crashes. Some are trying to imagine a new news system. I try to follow this action, and have been sending around the best of these pieces via my Twitter feed. It’s part of my experiment in mindcasting, which you can read about here. Lately, the pace has picked up. A trigger was the March 13 appearance of Clay Shirky’s Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable. That essay went viral; it now has a phenomenal 686 trackbacks, making it an instant classic in the online literature about the fate of the press. As good as Shirky’s piece is (very very good, I think) “Thinking the Unthinkable” is only a piece of the puzzle, and mostly backward-pointing. That’s why I’ve collected the following links. Together, they form a kind of flying seminar on the future of news, presented in real time. (They are all from the month of March 2009.) Read all twelve and you’ll be caught up on your newspaper big think. Here they are in the order I think you should read them. If you take the seminar, feel free to leave your impressions in the comments. The “flying” part is simple: go ahead, steal these links. Spread the seminar. Get your people up to speed.

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The Beleaguered News Industry ...

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Tom Tomorrow - Mar. 09 (Cartoon) - After the last reporter files the last news story, an army of citizen journalists gamely try to fill the void.

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Imagining Newspapers of the Future

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Lynn Klyde-Silverstein, Elliot Neaman, Tim Straus, Martin Kimel, Joel Kramer, Jessica Wanke, Louise Dufresne - Jan. 31 (Comment) - Re “News You Can Endow,” by David Swensen and Michael Schmidt (see link), which says endangered newspapers can be saved if we “turn them into nonprofit, endowed institutions — like colleges and universities”: The writers don’t seem troubled by the rule that endowed status would prevent newspapers from attempting to “influence legislation.” Candidate endorsements are not the only thing this would suppress. Wouldn’t this also prevent newspapers from editorializing about any pending legislation? Isn’t that one of the most important jobs of a newspaper?

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