Continuing a Francophile tone to the blog I thought you might find Alain Giraudo’s post on a report of the state of the internet interesting. He picks up on an article on 20minutes.fr about the “ Etats Généraux de la Presse” – a kind of ‘what’s up with the newspapers then’ report. Here are the [...]

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A very neat timeline of International Journalism: media freedom around the world from the journalism.co.uk team. Definitely worth a look.

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Eric Scherer at AFP newsnet has an interesting roundup of the French media’s reaction to the head of Google News, Josh Cohen as he asks what role will Google play in the news ecosystem?. He’s got this nifty video of the twitter coverage as well as some very juicy quotes and debate about the impact [...]

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The journo, originally uploaded by digitaldickinson. A nice Steve Bell Cartoon from the NUJ’s Journalist magazine.

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In my own life I’ve seen it a thousand times, where there was the old rock’n’roll establishment beating up the punks, which I was part of, or it was the Aid establishment beating up Band Aid and Live Aid. But the reality is that there was room for the Rolling Stones and the Clash; there [...]

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I was on the train back from London last week and found myself sat behind a guy with a huge pile of newspapers. For the duration of the trip from London to Manchester he systematically went through the papers tearing out article and leaving a shredded mess behind him when he got off. By a [...]

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Update: Alison has a great post on her blog about this story with some insight in to what a big cultural shift this has been for some in the newsroom Alison Gow has just dropped me a tweet pointing me to a story on the Liverpool Daily Post website about the numbers of council workers [...]

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I’ve been doing a bit of ‘multimedia’ with students including maps and the wonders of Dipity timelines. Whilst picking through the backlog of posts in my reader I came across a few posts with defining moments for online journalism. So, as a bit of fun, I thought I would add them to dipity as an [...]

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