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Tim Porter at First Draft sounds a warning about the erosion of Freedom of the Press, and gives suggestions to counter this ominous trend.

Interesting article “If journalists listened to media scholars” in the August issue of the University of Chicago magazine uses an academic conference to illustrate the difficulties journalists have deciphering media scholars much less heeding their advice.
But, article author Rick Perlstein concludes:
In a word, it would be hard to bring journalists into the embrace […]

If documentary filmmaker Earl Morris can make powerful political ads for MoveOn using head shots of ordinary people talking, why can’t we make real news using real people talking?

Tim Porter at First Draft uses an excellent recent speech by Hodding Cater, president and CEO of the Knight Foundation, as a cataylst for a post on diversity and public journalism. His post is worth a read as is the Carter speech, which says in part:
We in journalism and in the academy have been […]

After attending the AEJMC convention recently in Toronto, it is clear to me that more and more professors are interested in how to effectively use blogs in their classrooms. Here are two blogs that have running commentary on what’s new, what’s useful and what is experimental. Both are worth a visit:
1. Weblogg-ed
2. Weblogs […]