Joystiq:
You don't see nearly the amount of coverage of Second Life (or as we call it in these parts, PlayStation Home's creepy, aggressively pornographic uncle) these days as you used to, and BBC did a little digging to find out why. (Read More)
New York Times:
The authorities are expanding access to journalists who don’t belong to cartel-like media groups that analysts say have produced a relatively spineless press.
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Talking Points Memo:
Anybody know what is behind the craze of right-wing journalists and politicians to dub themselves with J-Lo-esque and/or rap-like nicknames? You know what I'm talking about, right? A particularly virulent trend in the Polit (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
The Cartoons that Shook the World, by Jytte Klausen (Yale, £20)In what deserves to become the definitive account of the Danish cartoon controversy of 2005-6, none of the major actors comes out looking too good. Certainly not (Read More)
The Guardian:
Maybe the Fifa president should take himself out of circulation for a while and have a damn good thinkFirst we were cross with Thierry Henry. This turned out to be an unsatisfying experience, like shouting tiny, pathetic inau (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Unless they end in promises, and a treaty within months, Ed Miliband believes the Copenhagen talks will be a disaster. But can the British energy secretary, in Denmark for a frantic round of pre-summit diplomacy, win the argu (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
If the past is another country, Ed Balls has just confiscated the passports of our schoolchildrenEd Balls has announced that primary school history is to be subsumed into an "area of learning" called "historical, geographical (Read More)
World-The Times of India:
A Russian icebreaker carrying more than 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on an Antarctic cruise has reached clear water after being halted for days by thick ice, its owners said on Friday. (Read More)
Mashable!:
The Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition, our annual contest highlighting the very best the web has to offer, is entering its final round. The 70,000+ nominees have been narrowed down to just 5 finalists per category, and y (Read More)
Submitted by Motown_Terri
from blog:
Author : Elisa WhealerYour press release has been written Ready to submit it? Sometimes in your eagerness to get it over it, you might feel that it is good to submit Realizing the main reason for your press writing that is (Read More)
Times Online:
Press conferences are normally pretty easy-going affairs. The journalists and the manager ask and answer the questions politely, perhaps exchange a bit of gentle banter, and everyone's happy. But there are exceptions, as any (Read More)
Submitted by mvndrvrt
from Google Reader:
Less than a month after the Washington Blade, known as “the gay paper of record,” celebrated its 40th Anniversary at a glitzy reception at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C., comes news that the paper will no (Read More)
Mumbai-Cities-The Times of India:
Suspected Shiv Sainiks on Friday attacked and vandalised the office of a private news channel at Vikhroli in north-east Mumbai. TV reports suggest that journalists were beaten up. (Read More)
Submitted by mogston
from blog:
Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson might bring the Nexus UX platform, which is better known as the Rachael user interface present on its Android-based XPERIA X10 handset, to more devices, even if not powered by (Read More)
Submitted by TheFunkyAgency
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So, the BBC are catching up! They are asking their journalists to make two headlines – one more detailed than the other to make them more search engine-friendly.As The Guardian reports today, the BBC get 29% of their traffi (Read More)
Submitted by Motown_Terri
from blog:
Author : Elisa WhealerIf you are new with the task of press writing, it could be daunting You do not know how to start or what exactly to write It is very understandable your fears and apprehension You want to do a good jo (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
The subject reliably grabs attention, but the words in a good story are usually getting up to all sorts of other stuffNow then, Best Beloveds: the short story. If we're sensible and care about prose, we will agree that it's a (Read More)