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Blogger poses with gun to counter bias claims

Posted by Evan Fell on December 13, 2007 at 12:22 PM
Newspaper political blogs are becoming more and more popular these days, causing bloggers to have to answer to critics and allegations of bias on a daily basis.


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UGC: News’ friend or foe? interview Daily Motion

Posted by Jean Yves Chainon on November 15, 2007 at 3:16 PM
User-generated content websites have flourished and there is no question now that they are here to stay, and that ‘user’ content will increasingly pervade all media – ‘traditional’ media that is. Has the definition of ‘News’ changed, or deteriorated, with the Web 2.0 revolution?  Are UGC sites competitors or facilitators for newspapers transitioning to the online world? Martin Rogard, director of content for YouTube’s European alter ego, Daily Motion, answers some of these questions for the Weblog, to help newspapers that can be torn between opening to readers and keeping the old rules in place.


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US: lynching photo in comments section

Posted by Jean Yves Chainon on August 31, 2007 at 9:43 AM
In response to an article about the alleged murder of a white person by a black person, a user posted multiple photos of a lynched black man in the Telegraph Herald’s online comment section.


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Flash graphics take part in US election coverage

Posted by Katie Ratcliffe on November 6, 2006 at 3:24 PM
In the run-up to the US mid-term elections, many news organizations have been using interactives in their website coverage, and often taking advantage of Flash technology to do it.  Are these graphics effective?  Are they worth all the trouble?  Digital media experts Alberto Cairo, Mindy McAdams and Laura Ruel give their assessment, and offer tips for future news website content producers.


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Local, community, you: an exemplary news site is born

Posted by John Burke on May 15, 2006 at 12:41 PM
If you talk to any media watcher nowadays, they don’t hesitate to tell you that the globalized world of 24-hour news stations and humongous international news organizations means that smaller newspapers need to focus more on their immediate communities. They also won’t flinch in mentioning that most local newspapers are doing a poor job. A few models of the “new newspaper” exist to which they refer enthusiastically. But a recently launched local website has joined the fray and could become the new reference point. The difference is, it’s not a newspaper.


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US: Boston Globe website considers launching paid for sports section

Posted by Dominique Lewis Tuohy on December 16, 2005 at 1:16 PM

The Boston Globe is considering launching a new paid for sports section in early 2006 for its website Boston.com. If launched, the service would be called Sportsplus and "would be the essential resource for news, opinions and discussion about New England's sports teams, produced daily by the country's best sports writers."


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