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The alpha and the omega

By Michael Becker | Published: March 12, 2010
Plagiarism has come up as a sub­ject of dis­cus­sion again recently, lead­ing some crit­ics to pon­der the rea­sons why jour­nal­ists lie, cheat and steal, pur­pose­fully or “accidentally.” Matthew Ingram tack­les pla­gia­rism from another point of view, say­ing that if jour­nal­ists thought more like blog­gers and truly val­ued hyper­link­ing, then they wouldn’t get them­selves into such [...]
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The Web strategy hamster wheel

By Michael Becker | Published: March 10, 2010
Today our company’s CEO paid us a visit. To mark the occa­sion, we had a meet­ing to talk about how much con­tent our paper should be putting online. Our cor­po­rate own­ers have a pol­icy about how much con­tent we and the other papers should be putting online for free. I won’t give a num­ber, but [...]
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The perils of centralization

By Michael Becker | Published: March 8, 2010
My paper’s Web site is down tonight. I don’t know if it’s sched­uled main­te­nance or not. I assume if this is sched­uled main­te­nance that I didn’t get the memo. As the Web edi­tor, I should get those memos. I think it likely that it’s not sched­uled main­te­nance, and here’s why. The main Web site for the [...]
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Pew releases its ‘Millenials’ report

By Michael Becker | Published: February 24, 2010
Pew Research released its report on the “Millenial” gen­er­a­tion today. I’ve down­loaded it (you can too) and I look for­ward to read­ing it and com­ment­ing on it tonight.
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The looming coupon crisis

By Michael Becker | Published: February 20, 2010
Coupons could be the next cri­sis for the news indus­try, says Jeff Jarvis: The prob­lem with dig­i­tal coupons and cir­cu­lars has been porta­bil­ity: the extra and incon­ve­nient step of print­ing out supresses use. But now enter the smart phone and the long-fabled day of the smart, mobile coupon may actu­ally arrive. If I can check into [...]
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