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From CP via Google News: Rogers Media, a division of Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B), says it has received approval to launch a 24-hour television news channel in the Greater Toronto Area. The channel will include news items contributed from a number of Rogers-owned media properties including The Fan 590 and 680News radio stations, Sportsnet cable television, [...]
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From the Dec. 9 NYT: Bowing to the rapid rise of news distributed digitally rather than on paper, the Pulitzer Prizes will begin immediately accepting submissions from online-only publications. The Pulitzers, administered by Columbia University, are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards for American newspaper reporting and commentary. Beginning with the 2009 prizes, which [...]
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From the NYT: In the early 1990s, while the cool kids in the New York University dorms were listening to Nirvana and Pavement and P. J. Harvey, Gabriel Roth, a Jewish teenager from California, sat in his dorm room, night after night, listening to one obscure James Brown record after another. He listened to “Dooley’s [...]
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Shane Richmond, communities editor of telegraph.co.uk, offers some thoughts on how search engine optimization is changing online newswriting. From the British Review of Journalism: (from a tweet by Wing Tse Tang ) With keyword-rich headlines and intros a priority, many journalists feel that they have to make their writing drier and more formulaic. The Sun’s famous [...]