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Linkage
I don’t quite know why it’s taken me so long to become a regular reader of duckrabbit’s blog, because it’s a wonderful place to hang out. Everything from wonderful photo-documentaries to this. A picture of a dog in a bun. Barking.
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Osborne’s mighty cahones
It takes, you know, quite a pair to publish the most drastic cuts in government spending since the end of the Second World War, when demand for Spitfires and tanks fell through the floor, and suffix it with a table that basically says the poor will be hit hardest. But that’s just what happened today.…
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Now I get Demotix
There’s lot of debate about what Demotix does. Is it the news-gathering model for the future, or is it undermining traditional income streams for journalists? I’ve been a big fan for a while, even if I’ve never contributed anything yet. If you haven’t come across it before, Demotix is a portal for anyone, anywhere to…
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Linkage – Finding journalism outside journalism
One thing I love about being freelance is the diversity of projects I get involved with. The thing I like less is that I often go through phases where I’m just too busy to write about them all. In the last week, I’ve reviewed laptops and headphones, produced a video and magazine feature about multithreading…
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A day in the life of Shoreham-by-Sea
Over in Agora taking part in the Brighton Future of News group’s experimental live blog talking to people in Shoreham-by-Sea. Peter is one of my favourite interviewees of the day so far.
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Published and be read
Journalism.co.uk has an interesting story up about this man, Michalis Pantelouris, a freelance journalist who had that very familiar problem of knowing he had a good story on his hands, but wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. So he crowdsourced his article about a German singer’s death in Athens, publishing 110 pages of…