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March 21, 2010 | 16:34
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Thanks to all who turned out today at UBC Robson Square for my workshop on online tools and techniques for journalists. I'm creating this post as a way to continue the discussion online. If you have questions or comments on the topics we discussed, please share them in the comments, ...
February 25, 2009 | 12:33
Category: Events, Places

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Making news pay: no easy answers at Oxford

I attended Andrew Currah's interesting talk on business models for news today at Oxford's Green Templeton College. Currah has just released a report for the Reuters Institute called "What's Happening to Our News." Lots of good insights on the scary economic trends in the U.K. news media. Real problems urgently ...
January 26, 2009 | 11:14
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Distinctions that no longer matter

Today in Brussels, I sneaked into the kickoff seminar for the European Blogging Competition, at which about 90 bloggers and would-be bloggers, representing every European Union nation, are getting a crash course in E.U. politics and blogging techniques. Good panelists, good Q&A. But oddly, one of the liveliest discussions revolved around ...

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August 20th 2010
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Flash in the pan?

I am an ex-Flash user. I uninstalled the Flash plug-in on my primary browser about a month ago, and I haven't looked back. Here's how it happened: Back when Apple announced that its forthcoming iPad would lack Flash support, it sounded to me like a boneheaded move. If a device built ...
March 21st 2010
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Thanks to all who turned out today at UBC Robson Square for my workshop on online tools and techniques for journalists. I'm creating this post as a way to continue the discussion online. If you have questions or comments on the topics we discussed, please share them in the comments, ...
March 6th 2010
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Checking in from Canada

In the four months since my last post — yes, I'm a terrible blogger — I've moved to Vancouver and started teaching at the University of British Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. Among other things, I'm coordinating the school's Integrated Journalism course, required of all first-year students, and advising some ...
November 9th 2009
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Posted here and there

The problem with writing for several outlets is that your stuff lacks a home on the Internet. But it's nothing that a little aggregation can't fix. In case you missed it, here's some of what I've been writing in the last few months: Today at De Nieuwe Reporter, the Dutch online ...
October 2nd 2009
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What would you teach aspiring journalists about the internet?

It's officially official: I'm headed to Vancouver in January to spend a semester as the Canwest Global Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. I will be teaching online journalism as part of the school's integrated journalism course. I'm looking forward to helping students think critically ...

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