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Reinvention beckons - FT.com
www.ft.com | Feb 10, 2012
Alys, Always, by Harriet Lane, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£12.99, 224 pages Journalism comes with privileges, not least access to the great and the good. But audiences tend to be strictly controlled and, while being an observer may titillate, it also

Digging into the comments streams - Editors Weblog
www.editorsweblog.org | Feb 10, 2012
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Press Gazette Editor’s Blog » Why a free press can’t be dismantled to accommodate the ‘foibles’ of
blogs.pressgazette.co.uk | Feb 10, 2012
Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre put forward a compelling case for intruding into the private lives of the rich and famous in his supplementary witness statement to the Leveson Inquiry. In it he quotes from a piece written gy Auberon Waugh for the New Statesman in the 1970s, defnding legendary Mail

SLA - Great new posters for National Libraries Day
www.sla.org.uk | Feb 9, 2012
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Go Read This | Ebook sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction | Media | The Guardian «
eoinpurcellsblog.com | Feb 6, 2012
You would be forgiven if you read this piece and thought afterwards that the only print books sold in bookshops were literary fiction and non-fiction and the bulk of them Booker prize winners. Of course we know this isn’t true and just as readers of digital books like their genre fiction, so

'Star'-Crossed: When Teens With Cancer Fall In Love : NPR
www.npr.org | Jan 28, 2012
You wouldn't necessarily think of a cancer support group as a place where teens meet and fall in love — but that's exactly what happens to Hazel and Augustus, the young protagonists in The Fault in Our Stars, the latest from author John Green.

Is The Guardian's Commitment to Free Content Wavering? - EContent Magazine
www.econtentmag.com | Jan 18, 2012
The best things in life are free, it's been said -- but the cost to compete in the online news business has taken its toll on countless newspapers from The New York Times to The Australian, which have started charging users to access digital content. Now, add British daily The Guardian to the mix,

Advertising will dictate news morals - says 'oddball' British newspaper publisher. | PRLog
www.prlog.org | Jan 16, 2012
Advertising will dictate news morals - says 'oddball' British newspaper publisher. News and advertising are the key ingredients to any successful publication. The News Advertiser series of regional papers, in their various and variety of forms, have been a staple throughout the UK for hundreds of

MEDIA DECODER - Daily News Names Editor From News of the World - NYTimes.com
query.nytimes.com | Jan 5, 2012
The Daily News of New York on Wednesday appointedColin Myler, a former editor of the recently closed News of the World tabloid in London, its editor in chief. <p> Effective on Tuesday, Mr. Myler, 59, will succeed Kevin Convey, a former editor of The Boston Herald who has led The Daily News since

Americans Can Read the News Before It Was History on New Web Site - News Releases (Library of
www.loc.gov | Dec 16, 2011
The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities today announced that 'Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers' is debuting with more than 226,000 pages of public-domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of