September 2010
66 posts
southerncomfortsmiles asked: IF YOU'RE GOING TO REBLOG A POST THAT I SPENT TIME AND EFFORT TO WRITE, YOU COULD ATLEAST NOT TAKE THE CREDIT AWAY.
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“It is impossible to skim through a newspaper, of any day, month or year, without...”
– Charles Baudelaire, Journals (via davale)
August 2010
309 posts
: Post-Mortem Photography →
Absolutely fascinating.
Post-Mortem photography, the act of taking photographs of the recently deceased, was a common custom during the beginning of the 19th century. It eventually replaced the older and much more costly use of posthumous paintings. With the advent and popularization of the photograph came the…
“bra: Acceptable in all references for brassiere”
– The Associated Press Stylebook 2010 (via rachelfro)
Oh, thank goodness.
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Today in history ... this stuff happened
1590: Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle, which he establishes as the shogun base. Tom Cruise is nowhere to be seen. Yet.
1800: Gabriel Prosser leads an unsuccessful slave rebellion in Richmond, Va. If it had been successful, we wouldn’t have had the Civil War and - ooh, note to self: Find someone with a time machine and go back and make the rebellion a smashing success. But if it is, then...
“internships in journalism are either the chance of a lifetime or slave labor”
– Yale Daily News - Internships: indentured servitude or worthy right of passage? (via arwensabendstern)
True.
Journalism Schools: How To Teach a Business That... →
carriefweir:
While the future business model of journalism has yet to be resolved, he says, “schools have to face this dilemma of quickly-developing market spaces all the time. I tell my students that in their lifetimes, research has shown that they will have eight distinctly different careers. The stunning part is that four of those careers don’t even exist yet. So things like critical...
The Lost 1984 Video: young Steve Jobs introduces...
vitospatafora:
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Today in history ... this stuff happened
1056: Byzantine Empress Theodora becomes ill, dying suddenly a few days later. As she had no children to succeed the throne, the Macedonian dynasty ends. Gee, succession rights sure can be … byzantine. Amirite?
1888: Mary Ann Nichols, the first of Jack the Ripper’s known victims, is murdered. The murder that launched a thousand stories, books, movies, TV plots and conspiracy...
The Proto-Internet of 1704: The small ways in... →
Wholly fascinating.
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A link to an article about The University of... →
Hmm.
gregmees:
This is really interesting. While I completely understand their point of view, I find it unnecessary and quite frankly a step in the complete wrong direction. The industry is changing rapidly and the school of journalism at CU claims that it is time to change with the industry, yet from the way that I see it, that would mean that every year some large issue within the school...
“Officially, we do not quote anonymous sources. Unofficially, no one can prove we...”
– Fake AP Stylebook (FakeAPStylebook) on Twitter (via knowcebo)
Or Heywood Jablowmie
USA Today Plans Overhaul to Emphasize Mobile... →
infoneer-pulse:
The newspaper USA Today is making the most dramatic overhaul of its staff in its 28 year history as it de-emphasizes its print edition and ramps up its effort to reach more readers and advertisers on mobile devices.
The makeover outlined to staffers on Thursday will result in about 130 layoffs this fall, the publisher of USA Today, David L. Hunke said, which is about 9 percent...
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Today in history ... this stuff happened
1776: Gen. George Washington loses the Battle of Long Island. In what is now Brooklyn. And this is why, 225+ years later, people are so fast to point out that Brooklyn is not part of Long Island. Even though they’re on the same island. Which is long.
1828: Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by Great Britain between Brazil and Argentina. Great...
“Answering the city desk phones and talking to readers, I learned how deeply...”
– This is a nice read from MinnPost, part of a memoir of working as a female journalist in Duluth in the early 1970s. (via markcoatney)
“The editorial stars of this new age will be those who are innovative, creative...”
– There is so much to like in [News Ltd CEO] John Hartigan’s speech to the Future Forum of the Newspaper Publishers Association.
(via djkn0x)
“WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to express near-record-low confidence in...”
– In U.S., Confidence in Newspapers, TV News Remains a Rarity
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