Sep
16
Some reading to wrap up the weekend and set up the week:
- At The NY Times Mag, is it really “bad science” or is it bad communication? One of the strengths of the ‘web is the opportunity for quick critiques of what’s being reported, like you find in this Framing Science blog post that takes a hard look at the NYT’s cover article on diet and health. Long term, this can’t help but lead to better journalism, or at least better informed readers.
- Journalism is Job 1 – as always. A stirring defence of journalism in the Toronto Star that is a little long on rhetoric (an self-congratulation) and a little short on what that means for newspapers in the early 21st century. Via The Canadian Journalism Project.
- Google’s plan to poach election traffic. Newspapers should either be very afraid of what Google has unleashed on the Australian federal election, or they should start working like made to steal every idea there. Alan Mutter has the details. A must-read.
- Improving web video – Three S’s Part 1:Sequences. A nice lesson, the first of three, from Andy Dickinson on doing better video journalism. Still to come are Script and Sound. Invaluable.
Note: I gathered these from browsing with the new beta version of Bloglines which I quite like, particularly the three-pane view which seems to speed up the information harvest.
