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Columbia Journalism Review
It’s All Over Now, Violet Blue
Submitted by Benton Foundation on July 10, 2008 - 8:15pmWhat happens when a bog suddenly decides to remove all reference to someone and all the posts said person ever made on a site?
Who Will Tell Us?
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 13, 2008 - 7:15pmThe steady drip of buyouts and layoffs has consumed an estimated four thousand newsroom jobs in print alone since the turn of the century, according to the much-chewed-over annual State of the News Media report released in March by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The Early Life of the Gas-Tax Story
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 9, 2008 - 7:00amLast updated: August 7, 2008 - 11:20am
The possible suspension of the federal gas tax has become a big issue in the presidential race, and the latest media frenzy surrounding the candidates. As we noted last week, the press aggressively (if belatedly) attacked the idea, which John McCain and Hillary Clinton support and Barack Obama opposes.
The Future of Reading
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 9, 2008 - 6:56amKlein reviews Amazon’s Kindle and concludes, "if the Kindle’s successor or competitors are to succeed, it will be because Amazon used its status as the world’s largest online bookseller to force authors to think seriously about creating content that works better than the book, that goes where the book cannot, that’s interactive and cooperative and open in ways that printed text will never be.
http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/the_future_of_reading.php
