I’m huge fan of The Big Picture, a curated collection of photography from newsworthy events around the world. At any given time there might be an assortment of images from protests, or holidays, or natural disasters, and the editors have a good eye for really fantastic images. Sometimes I like to get my news visually, …
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Crowing Pies
Editorial at The Guardian: The magic of the monarchy The marriage of a prince to a commoner – a true bridging of class divides, if ever there was one – represents the perfect moment for progressives to commit again to the promise of hereditary monarchy. Google Staff: Announcing GMail Motion Gmail Motion uses your computer’s …
Are There Any News?
A few weeks ago, I encountered an image showing different editions of a publication based in the US, each with a cover specific to a particular market. The reason I’m not displaying to it or linking to it is because I can’t find it now, I hasten to add, not because I’m feeling spiteful or …
Teal Stakes
Dennis Myers at News Review: GOP Light Democrats like to talk about how their party was founded by Thomas Jefferson, which is true. But the party was later founded again, by a more modern leader—William Jennings Bryan. Andisheh Nouraee at Creative Loafing: I was a teenage Republican My non-erotic affair with the GOP began in …
Heavy Owls
Site Recommendation: News with a POC Slant Alice Dreger and Ellen K. Feder at Bioethics Forum: Bad Vibrations (content warning: child sexual assault, forced genital surgery, medical experimentation, child abuse, what the fuck how in the fuck did an ethics committee approve this) We understand that these tests might produce generalized knowledge that shows whether …
Where Is Journalism Going? (And Will We Know When We Get There?)
I feel like I’ve been reading an uptick in ‘what is the future of journalism’ articles these days, complete with all kinds of speculations. Undeniably, the Internet has fundamentally changed the nature of journalism, in a lot of ways, and we are very much in a transition period. As we talk about the directions journalism …