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Link Ch. 4 – Three Cups of the Boston Globe in the 90s

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

My commentary students and I spent class yesterday talking about the Greg Mortenson Three Cups of Tea case study, and talk there led to discussion of the Mike Barnicle / Patricia Smith case. Here’s a link to a great in-depth … Continue reading →

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Commentary Through Impersonation: Wisconsin & Arizona

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

There’s been quite a fuss going on about a journalist from an alternative news source calling up a conservative politician and then impersonating a someone the politician would feel was sympathetic.   The alt journalist then uses the material from … Continue reading →

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More on Sulzberger and NY Times Leaving Print

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Ralph Hanson

Yesterday I gave a link to a brief comment about NY Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. talking about ending the printed version of the newspaper, and how this was old news.  The NY Observer has a better story on it … Continue reading →

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Sulzberger Has Been Promising for 11 Years To End Printing of NY Times

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Ralph Hanson

Mediaite reports today that NY Times publisher and chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has announced that “We will stop printing the New York Times Sometime in the Future.”  He made the statement at the WAN-IFRA’s 9th International Newsroom Summit in London. … Continue reading →

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Comic Books, Copyrights and Changing Media

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Ralph Hanson

As I noted yesterday, comic writer Mark Waid upset the comic world over the weekend with his keynote speech at the Harvey Awards (for excellence in comics).  Although I cannot find a transcript or video of his speech at the … Continue reading →

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Media are Evolving – Part II

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Ralph Hanson

Yesterday I posted a blog entry about how old media are changing to respond to new technology and new demands from audiences.  Today, I’ve got a couple of followups to these stories: Wired’s Chris Anderson discusses “Web is Dead” Chris … Continue reading →

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New Media Are Scary Dept. – Media Are Evolving, Not Going Extinct

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Ralph Hanson

We get a lot of proclamations about the future of media, many of which involve the death of one particular medium or another.  For example, a week or two ago Wired magazine ran a story proclaiming that “The Web is … Continue reading →

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