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Consider the journalism on Twitter, not whether Twitter is journalism

By Michael Becker | Published: November 29, 2009
Twitter is a medium and can­not be con­sid­ered as a whole, writes Alfred Hermida, who’s wor­ried that we’re about to rehash the old argu­ment about whether a new medium “is journalism.” Rather than argu­ing about whether Twitter is or isn’t jour­nal­ism, we should shift the con­ver­sa­tion to under­stand­ing the jour­nal­ism tak­ing place on this plat­form [...]
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Local paper adopts wage cuts and furloughs

By Michael Becker | Published: April 17, 2009
News today from my local paper, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. In an memo to Chronicle employ­ees (for­warded to me by a friend who still works at the paper), pub­lisher Stephanie Pressly explains that every employee will have to take the equiv­a­lent of five unpaid days off before June 30.
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Flip cameras turn everbody into paparazzi

By Michael Becker | Published: March 21, 2009
Jeff Jarvis put up this post yes­ter­day about a German online tabloid called Bild. The edi­tor of the mag­a­zine saw Jarvis with a Flip at a con­fer­ence and had to have one. He dis­patched his staff mem­bers to the U.S. to buy some of the cam­eras, and the edi­tor even­tu­ally con­tracted with another cam­era com­pany [...]
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Opportunity costs

By Michael Becker | Published: December 2, 2008
A new arti­cle on CNN today sheds light on a phe­nom­e­non that’s been around for a few years now: TiVo Guilt. People pro­gram their DVRs to record entire sea­sons of tele­vi­sion shows or shows they they believe they should watch, like Sunday morn­ing news pro­grams. Eventually, they wind up with a DVR full of unwatched [...]
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Mainstream Media Seen as Unreliable

By Michael Becker | Published: August 11, 2007
A study con­ducted by the Pew Research Center this week shows that peo­ple who get their news pri­mar­ily from the Internet likely view main­stream media (local tele­vi­sion news, cable news, news­pa­pers, etc.) unfavorably. The study also said that those same peo­ple “are among the most crit­i­cal of press per­for­mance,” see­ing the press as polit­i­cally biased [...]
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