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Weekend reading: Beyond AP

10/04/08 at 10:01 am

Amy Gahran offers an intriguing vision
of one future model for sharing local news

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Newspapers need to learn that great online communities should not be dictatorships

By Robert Niles: I had a conversation yesterday with a former colleague, who, like many online journalists, is trying to steer his newspaper toward a more Web-savvy future. As we were wrapping up, he mentioned that he had to go to a meeting of his paper's "standards and practices" committee. The what? I asked. "Yeah, we have a standards and practices committee," he said. "We're supposed to figure out policies about managing user-generated content, hyperlinking and stuff like that." Why don't ...

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COMMUNITY

Community Seminars | TCC Series | Total Community Coverage Blog

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MySpace and Facebook: Gateway to Youth, Latinos

10/06/08 at 02:32 pm

If you have (or know) teenagers or college students, you may have noticed that they’re MySpace and/or Facebook junkies. These social media service are powerhouses of online visibility. According to Alexa, right now MySpace is the Web’s third most popular site, after search giants Google and Yahoo. (YouTube currently ranks fourth, but then Facebook is fifth.) These services are not just for kids, struggling musicians, and attention-seekers. They’re actually direct conduits to the next generation of many important groups and communities that are often underserved by mainstream news…

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EDITORIAL BEST PRACTICES

Opinion Seminars | Best Practices Series | Best Practices: Editorial and Commentary Blog

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Doing it right in Dallas

07/22/08 at 02:42 pm

Taking on the role of change catalyst, the Dallas Morning News editorial board embarks on a crusade to tear down long-standing divides in their city.

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Get the technical skills you need to create multimedia stories with this intense "hands-on" boot camp at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

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Exploring Leadership Issues

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J-LabJ-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism helps news organizations and citizens use new media technologies to create fresh ways for people to participate in public life.

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J-LabMindy McAdams is the Knight Chair for Journalism Technologies and the Democratic Process at the University of Florida. She conducts various training sessions in online journalism.

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