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JUNE 18, 2009 1:56PM

Flickr update: Yahoo response

By King Kaufman: I mentioned at the end of my post about Flickr zapping photos that corporate parent Yahoo hadn't responded to a message asking for comment.

Yahoo did respond late Wednesday night with a statement pointing out that all members agree to abide by the Flickr community guidelines,… Read full post »

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JUNE 17, 2009 9:17PM

Flickr zaps photos: Bad for citizen journalism

By King Kaufman: Flickr is often held up as a building block of the citizen-journalism future. Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, blogs.

But the photo sharing site has no future as a key tool in the journalism racket if it plans to keep acting the way it acted toward Shepherd… Read full post »

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JUNE 17, 2009 7:11PM

Knight News Challenge winners announced

By Katharine Mieszkowski: Congratulations to Scott Rosenberg, one of the founders of Salon, who's just received a $335,000 grant as one of the nine winners of the 2009 Knight News Challenge. Rosenberg's project, MediaBugs, will be an open process for correcting mistakes in news coverage. Yo… Read full post »

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JUNE 17, 2009 3:50PM

On Twitter, nobody knows you're a dog

As Western news outlets see their reporters confined to their offices and hotel rooms in Iran, before being kicked out of the country, they're relying more on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to find out what's happening on the ground.

But which tweets from Iran are true? asks… Read full post »

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JUNE 17, 2009 3:32PM

The media's deadly herd mentality

By King Kaufman: Michael Hastings writes on True/Slant about what Jay Rosen calls "The church of the savvy's dirty little secret": The media's herd mentality made support for the Iraq War a good career move.

Hastings, who spent the run-up to the war as an intern at Newsweek, writes that support… Read full post »

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JUNE 17, 2009 1:55PM

Iran tosses foreign journalists

By Katharine Mieszkowski: Amid the protests after the disputed Iranian presidential election, many foreign journalist's visas are expiring, and the government is refusing to renew them.

Loren Jenkins, the senior foreign editor for National Public Radio, said: "I think they want everyone out of… Read full post »

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JUNE 17, 2009 3:50AM

Future of journalism links

By King Kaufman: A few things read, seen and heard in the last day or so.

Beatblogging's Patrick Thornton on how professional journalists can create value when everybody's a journalist. With examples from the Iran story.

DigiDave, aka Dave Cohn, founder of Spot.us, on whether journalism scho… Read full post »

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JUNE 16, 2009 5:45PM

Clay Shirky on how Twitter fights oppression

By King Kaufman: With Twitter acting as the main conduit for updates on the world's top news story this week, it's nice timing that the video of Clay Shirky's May lecture titled "How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history" is viewable online at Ted.com.

Shirky, an adjunct professor at NYU,… Read full post »

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JUNE 16, 2009 2:12PM

BBC online goes green for Iran

By King Kaufman: The Iranian government jams the BBC's Farsi-language channel electronically and blocks its Farsi Web site.

Right now, the BBC's main home page is awash in green, evidently in support of the opposition "Green Revolution."

It's a remarkable show of support by a mainstream… Read full post »

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JUNE 16, 2009 9:32AM

CNN appreciates your Twitter submissions

By King Kaufman: Sometimes in life, little things say a lot. Over the weekend, CNN gave a little hint that, at least on the TV side, it doesn't quite get this whole social media thing.

 During coverage of the events in Iran Sunday night, anchor Don Lemon went into… Read full post »

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JUNE 15, 2009 5:39PM

Investigative reporters dig up good news

By Katharine Mieszkowski: In between ferreting out corruption and scouring public documents, the nation's investigative reporters and editors held their annual conference this weekend in Baltimore. Salon's own Mark Benjamin was there, tweeting: "It is all about nonprofit journalism at the annual IRE… Read full post »

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JUNE 15, 2009 2:02PM

Illustrators say no to free work for Google

By Katharine Mieszkowski: Google has apparently peeved some commercial illustrators  by inviting them to donate their work to the multibillion-dollar company. The nut of the controversy: the search giant has asked dozens of  prominent illustrators to contribute designs to be featured on i… Read full post »

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JUNE 15, 2009 3:17AM

The future of journalism is ... here

Welcome to the Future of Journalism on Open Salon.

Your bloggers are Katharine Mieszkowski, whom you know as a Salon reporter, and King Kaufman, Salon's cover editor and former sports columnist. Katharine has covered this subject a bit in Salon's pages, while King has been blogging about it on… Read full post »

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JUNE 15, 2009 3:13AM

The future of journalism is ... here

Welcome to the Future of Journalism on Open Salon.

<p>Your bloggers are Katharine Mieszkowski, who you know as a <a href="http://dir.salon.com/topics/katharine_mieszkowski/">Salon reporter,</a> and King Kaufman, Salon's cover editor and former <a href="http://dir.salon.com/topic… Read full post »
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