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Metamorphosis of the Journalist

In today’s round-up of good internet reading, we learn to love the niche, look (again( at newsletters, and get attention hacking

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Digital journalism: time for invention, not migration

Kevin Anderson: For too long we’ve been trying to find a market for the same products that we used to deliver in print, and that just won’t work. We can’t simply write that local council story the same way that we

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Inside the mind of the fake Jeff Jarvis

I really enjoyed this profile of Rurik Bradbury, the man behind the amusing Jeff Jarvis parody account @ProfJeffJarvis: A main target of Bradbury’s satire is the Orwellian lengths to which major tech players go to distort language. […] Bradbury’s semantic umbrage is not

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Claire Enders

Claire Enders, Schrödinger's Cat and the death of local newspapers

There’s a weird triumphalism is the air this morning, as Hold The Front Page points out that Claire Enders’ famous prediction five years ago that half of the UK’s local newspapers would be dead by now: Obtaining a precise figure for the

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Journalists: the problem isn't better, it's different

John L. Robinson spots a great observation about journalism by Stijn Debrouwere: Because the entire point is that journalism is not being disrupted by better journalism but by things that are hardly recognizable as journalism at all. Stepping up your game is always a