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Media

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Media

Business Journalism’s Image Problem

We are living in the age of number-crunchers, not narrators. On Wall Street, in Silicon Valley, in Bangalore and in Shanghai, the new technologies and…

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Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be in the Media

The only thing I’d add to this is that the obsession of some over Mediaite’s “Power Grid” pretty much confirms something I’ve long suspected—That of…

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Wikipedia’s new editing policy isn’t the end of the encyclopedia’s democratic age

This wiki-oligarchy presents its own sort of dangers. The movers and shakers of Wikipedia are largely hidden from public view and unaccountable for editorial decisions.…

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Common Knowledge

This, then, is the goal: a system of news that realizes Dewey’s prescient notion—a framework that combines the participatory value of passionate belief with the…

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Culture

Choire Sicha on Media Literacy

Stealth marketing, direct advertisement and product placement work only on the clueless, and our immersive, hippo-like wallowing in the marketplace serves only to make us…

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Culture

A Short Manifesto on the Future of Attention

So this is what it’s come to: when an attention gift economy seems more practical and sustainable than an exchange economy for information commodities[.]

via A…

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Culture

Treasuring the Artifacts of Publishing

Is the screen the new paper? Will publishing houses go the way of the old-fashioned record store? Is digital delivery the new bookstore? Is Google…

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Culture

Why do people still need to celebrate the web?

And why, in our modern media culture that thrives on contrarianism, is there not substantial scepticism about the web – not the slightest suggestion that…

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