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Richard Sambrook: Transparency is the new objectivity, and the Internet is not your enemy

By Michael Becker | Published: September 29, 2009
I came across this post by Mercedes Bunz in the Guardian about a talk given by Richard Sambrook at the Oxford Social Media Convention. Sambrook is the head of the BBC Global News Division. On the impor­tance of objec­tiv­ity and transparency: Objectivity, he then pointed out, had always been an idea impor­tant for the news. For [...]
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Blurring the lines between reporters and readers

By Michael Becker | Published: April 30, 2009
Matthew Ingram posted this great video today. It’s an inter­view with Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian. Not only does his paper have one of the best Web pres­ences of all major news­pa­pers, but the guy says some good things about the future of jour­nal­ism, espe­cially when it comes to rely­ing on the wis­dom of [...]
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Facebook will melt your brain

By Michael Becker | Published: February 25, 2009
A British neu­ro­sci­en­tist, whose work I’ve writ­ten about before, was the sub­ject of an arti­cle in the Guardian yes­ter­day. In it, Lady Susan Greenfield, a pro­fes­sor of synap­tic phar­ma­col­ogy a Lincoln col­lege, Oxford, tells us that the fast-paced, instant grat­i­fi­ca­tion world of social net­work­ing is prob­a­bly chang­ing the way a gen­er­a­tion of net­worked children’s minds work. If [...]
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