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Who killed the newspaper?

“Newspapers are making progress with the internet, but most are still too timid, defensive or high-minded”

The Economist offers an excellent special report on newspapers and emerging media this week. Fortunately, most of it can be accessed for free online. It highlights many of the problems publishers are worried about, and suggests possible solutions, […]

New! Free! Sex! - AOL searches

The Wall Street Journal reports on the queries of AOL customers:

Last week, AOL released a trove of what it thought were anonymous Web-search data from 650,000 of its customers. While intending to help researchers, AOL instead set off a privacy controversy because some of the users could, in fact, be tracked down.

Newspapers and Blogging

Can Newspapers do Blogs Right - With commenters from the Orlando Sentinel, boingboing, NPR, citytools.net and more.
Within the past few weeks two of America's leading newspapers have watched staff-written blogs blow up in their faces. First, Ben Domenech left Washingtonpost.com after outside bloggers uncovered numerous examples of plagiarism in his past work. And last week, […]

“The Medium is the Message”

The Times Literary Supplement on the famous media theorist, Marshall McLuhan.
Famously – some would say notoriously – McLuhan defined television as a “cool” medium, that is one in which consumers felt they were participants, as opposed to a “hot” medium like radio where, he argued, they were more like passive recipients (few people talk back […]

Podcast: Newspapers in the Age of Blogs

Alan Rusbridger: editor of The Guardian
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pdf transcript available here
(Mar 16, 2006 from the Royal Society of the Arts)

BBC’s Documentary Archive

Radio programmes from the BBC. Check it out here. Odd that I haven’t heard much about it. A little more information on BBC Radio’s Download and Podcast Trial.
Podcasts, streams, or direct downloads of the audio.

Interview with ‘Daily Show’ Producer Ben Karlin

A Fresh Air interview with Daily Show producer Ben Karlin that aired on April 4, 2006.
full length listen here
Come up with a list of the dream writing jobs in comedy and at least three of them are likely to come up on one man’s resume: Ben Karlin is executive producer of The Daily Show with […]

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