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Archive for February, 2007

New Study: Newsroom Cuts Eventually Hurt Profits

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

University of Missouri press release says:
Newspaper Study: Investing in the Newsroom is Good for Business.
The study was led by Murali Mantrala, the Sam Walton professor of marketing in the College of Business, and Esther Thorson, director of research for the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute and associate dean for graduate studies in the […]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Sweeping Changes

Friday, February 16th, 2007

No wonder no one from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution came to our SoCon07 conference, they were reinventing journalism in their newsroom. They are also:
extending a voluntary separation program offer to about 80 employees who are 55 years of age or older and have 10 years of Cox pension vesting service.
In addition the AJC reports:
the […]

Want to Be Anointed a Journalist, See Robert Cox

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Who is Robert Cox and why has the AP, PBS and the Federal courts allowed him to be the self appointed judge of good journalism? I have been quiet about this long enough, while Grayson Daughters has been signaling the alarm.
Yesterday Mark Glaser wrote about Cox, and I just had to add this […]

Reuters President: Journalism Golden Age Coming

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Jemima Kiss covering Chris Ahearn, president of Reuters Media, at last week’s WeMedia conference in Miami, writes that Ahearn’s future:
… is one which will be regarded as a golden age of journalism, where reporters work with specialised communities of reliable and trusted sources and stringers, and where technology provides new tools and information that paper-based […]

Chris Klaus: Connecting Virtually in Web 2.0

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Christopher Klaus is a founder of Internet Security Systems, which was sold recently for $1.2 billon, and is now the founder of Kaneva, a virutal world. He talks about Web 2.0.

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