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I've been a blogging hiatus in recent weeks, but I'm breaking that to point to story about the Washington Post's new newsroom. Or rather, a fond rememberence of what will soon be the old one. Ian Shapira writes: "It was earlier this fall and the…
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MediaShift presents 5Across: Environmental Impact of Media



The full video can be found here. This description comes via Mark Glaser of MediaShift, who writes:

Just a note to let you know that my latest in-depth post just went up on PBS MediaShift, this time a new episode of 5Across, a video roundtable discussion about the environmental impact of media such as books, newspapers, computers and
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Posted on January 24, 2010 at 10:00pm —

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California Watch Launches New Site

The California news ecology gets a welcome addition today with the launch of the new California Watch web site. Check it out at: http://californiawatch.org/. CW is a project by the Center for Investigative Reporting: http://www.centerforinvestigativereporting.org/

Posted on January 4, 2010 at 3:02pm —

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My Conversation About Social Media With Jennifer Jones

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At 11:21am on October 6, 2009, Cathy Brooks said…
Who knows, maybe we can figure out the answer to this whole "dying" industry thing :)
At 7:07am on October 6, 2009, Cathy Brooks said…
Thanks for approving me :)

And thanks for your time ... the blog post I thought turned out well and the response was great. Sadly Brian changed his commenting system LITERALLY the next day so about 20 comments - including yours - were lost :(

But there's still some dialogue there of interest ... Would love to have you on Social Media Hour some time to talk further on this topic
At 9:58pm on September 23, 2009, Cathy Brooks said…
With pleasure, Chris! This is a great group you created and who knows, maybe we'll actually figure some things out :)
At 7:36pm on September 22, 2009, Ellen Miller said…
Sure do. I work with Len at the Center for Sustainable Journalism. He's the Executive Director.
At 8:01pm on September 21, 2009, Andrew Finlayson said…
Yes. Great opportunity this year with some very interesting fellows.
At 8:50am on September 18, 2009, Henry Peirse said…
Great - look forward to it
At 10:58pm on August 13, 2009, Gilles BRUNO said…
thank you so much for adding me as your friend. Please come and read http://www.observatoiredesmedias.com tell me what you think. If you think articles you find somewhere should be translated to french, let me know!!
At 7:19pm on June 30, 2009, Renata Cabrales Rojas said…
Hi,
Thanks!!!!
I am a colombian journalist. Work as web editor in El País newspaper (www.elpais.com.co), of Cali, Colombia. Run a network about multimedia journalism: http://redmultimedia.ning.com
At 9:55pm on April 17, 2009, jeff bunch said…
Sounds good. Just shoot me an email early next week; glad to help.
At 4:53pm on April 17, 2009, Chris O'Brien said…
Check the e-mail interview I did with Ourblook about the Newsroom of the Future here:

http://www.ourblook.com/Reporters-and-the-Media/Chris-O-Brien-on-Next-Newspaper-Project.html
 
 

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