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Newsrooms hemorrhage more jobs than ever

April 14, 2008 – 10:36 am

Further to my earlier point that preparing today’s j-school students (undergrad and grad) mainly to work within mainstream news orgs does them an increasingly grave disservice, Rick Edmonds noted on Poynter.org today:
2,400 Newsroom Jobs Lost: Biggest Dip in 30 Years
WASHINGTON — After years of mildly reassuring numbers tracking the size of newspaper newsroom staffs, the [...]

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Feeds: Getting Pretty Mainstream

August 29, 2007 – 11:04 am

David Chief, via Flickr (CC license)

How many people use feeds? Probably a whole lot more than you think.

In my Aug. 21 post, It’s not about your site anymore, I talked about how web sites are becoming less important for online content distribution as RSS feeds (with their many uses) are enjoying increasingly mainstream usage.
Basically, the [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Feeds (RSS), business, journalism, media evolution, research, society, wish list | Comments (5)