links for 2007-01-23
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“A BBC South reporter has had what appeared to be a semi-automatic weapon aimed at her while covering a story about anti-social behaviour.”
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Like Stephen Warley, “I am still astonished by how few [journalists] use a newsreader (news aggregator) or even know what one is!”
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“Not necessarily, say political scientists studying media coverage of minority candidates.” -Tony Dokoupil.
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Wikipedia links will be tagged “nofollow”, hiding them from Google and perhaps ending the encyclopedia’s hegemony over search results. It’s an anti-spam measure, but critics say it turns Wikipedia into a “black hole”.
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“Beneath the hype and video cams, Politico is a formidable undertaking with a good chance for success. But that chance has more to do with business and finance than it does with journalistic prowess.”
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The 77-year-old columnist Keith Waterhouse has recently attracted the scorn of the Internet with his dismissive views about “bloggers” and “googlers”. The Indy has a profile of the man who still cranks out his copy on a typewriter.
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The EU will release data on recipients of farm subsidies following a rare international campaign by journalists.
Plus: Be sure not to miss coverage of Daily Mail *editor-in-chief Paul Dacre’s “subsidariat” speech from *The Guardian, Press Gazette, and the BBC’s Today Programme (RealAudio) — and the comment on it from Roy Greenslade.
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