Bill Doskoch: Media, BPS*, Film, Minutiae

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'How should journalists use Twitter?'

That's a thread going on at CJR.org on how journalists should use Twitter: http://www.cjr.org/news_meeting/how_should_journalists_use_twi.php Click through and read the comments if you're interested in this stuff. As for me, use Twitter for an early-warning system and a possible way to identify sources and witnesses. But don't use it as a crutch or take everything on [...]

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Wed, December 3 2008 » Main Page, Media » Comments Off

A sad way to get a pointer to an interesting yarn

This note from a reader showed up in my inbox: I know you're interested in this stuff so here's a link to a story about the Cambodia genocide…which happened to be the one I was reading right as I got called into the meeting where I got laid off from my media job today but [...]

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Wed, December 3 2008 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page, Media » Comments Off