Bill Dunphy thinks he has some answers to that question.
Bill is a Senior reporter for a Canadian newspaper called the Hamilton Spectator. and he’s been looking at the way the media reacted to an explosion at a propane plant in Toronto, His blog post - Propane depot explosions expose shortcomings in breaking news coverage by [...]

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Say a quite word of thanks dear reader to Mr Kevin Anderson. Why? Let me explain.
Yesterday I posted a graphic that tried to sum up some of the problems that still exist as we try and engage with community.
I’d been thinking about it because I’ve been updating content for my Digital newsroom module next semester. [...]

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I’ve been thinking about how journalists, community and audience interact and the problems that cuases. I do think that the media see audience and communities differently - that’s one of the problems.
Some rambly posts may follow.
UPDATE: Thanks to Kevin Anderson a less rambly post did appear.

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The appearance of Google Knol seems  to be causing some consternation in the J-bloggashpere.  The general tone is that the search giants new ‘encyclopedia’ is a step too far.
Danny Sanchez frames his (very balanced) take with a quote from Google CEO Eric Schmidt
We’re in the advertising business – 99% of our revenue is advertising-related. But that [...]

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Links out = links in
That’s John Hassels simple headline for his post looking at the value of linking out from your site.
John picked up on a study by David Eaves of The SEO Company who challenges the received wisdom that links out leach traffic.
We believe that linking to useful websites doesn’t “leak” traffic - quite [...]

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The Guardian has an article outlining BSkyB’s plans to build an itunes killer in partnership with Universal.
The new service, scheduled to launch this year, will combine an unlimited on-demand jukebox service with a set number of monthly downloads that can be saved, even if users stop subscribing, for a single monthly charge.
There are positives. The [...]

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UPDATE: Paul has a great blog post summing up the issues.
Paul Bradshaw has been doing a little ‘pre-blogging’ over at Seesmic with a question about what we should be teaching journalism students.

Some of the responses go as far as to suggest that three year degrees (in the UK students normally do a degree between 18-21) [...]

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Yesterday I commented on a post from Bill Thompson about suggested changes to European legislation that ‘may’ open the door to the music industry having the power to ban people from the web. I reflected that the journalism industry had yet another lesson in how not to behave, writ large, from the music [...]

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