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Weasel words and bogus trend stories

By Julie Starr | Published: September 23, 2010

I enjoyed this piece on @Poynter about Slate’s Jack Shafer bagging journalists for writing bogus trend stories. …anecdotal evidence is hardly ever sufficient. Just ask Shafer, a media critic at Slate who has spent the past eight years writing about bogus trend stories. As often as a few times a month, he questions the validity [...]

Posted in Journalism | Also tagged Poynter, slate, weasel words | 2 Comments

Newspapers have always adapted to technology

By Julie Starr | Published: January 15, 2009

Jack Shafer has a nice piece on Slate looking at how news companies have adapted to technology over the years. Referring to Pablo J. Boczkowski's 2004 book, Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers, Jack notes how newspapers in the US were quick to buy up radio licences when radio started making a splash, dabbled in news by fax and something called Videotex. Then came the doomed proprietary online news systems.

Posted in Business Models, Newspapers | Also tagged distribution, Newspapers, slate, technology | Leave a comment

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