Blogging
But before you sharpen your blogging skills and aim for the stars, beware that the price may be for newspaper blogs only. New guidelines for the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes allow the submission of blogs. A press release from the Pulitzer Board discusses the widening of the range of online journalism
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America's political conversation has shifted away from traditional media to the web, argues Jacob Weisberg, Slate's editor-in-chief, in this intriguing interview with The Guardian: "Anyone who really wants to participate in that conversation has to have a presence on the web now - not necessarily
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Reporter Niklas Svensson and five youth politicians will have to defend themselves in court in the wake of the latest Swedish Watergate, recently renamed 'Leijongate' (I'd love to know why as it kind of plays on my surname, albeit in Swedish). In Svensson's case,
Blogging
Huge topic, and a very topical one as newspaper blogs are popping up all over the place – at least in the UK (I follow UK and Scandinavian media in-depth, as I've got strong ties to both regions, and so far newspaper blogs are more prolific in the the
Media
In an online world where we can all be our own editors, picking and choosing from our favourite blogs, news sites and information outlets, it's not a given that the old media giants consistently will give us the top headlines of the day, or put the stuff we&
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Well, no need to tell Danish journalists. A recent survey indicates they are held in such high esteem by their sources that the latest issue of Danish trade mag Journalisten poses the question: are Danish hacks too polite? 95 per cent of the sources in the survey feel they have
Blogging
'Why do politicians blog?' asks Wordblog, quoting from Emily Bell's wry look at politicians jumping on the social media bandwagon in The Guardian's comment section today. The answer should be obvious: what a wonderful way to converse with the electorate, engage disaffected or alienated
Freesheets
So far, the invasion of new Danish freesheets has not led to more people reading newspapers, if we are to believe a recent survey from Institute for Business Cycle Analysis (Ifka). Most Danes choose to read several free papers, both new (like Dato, 24timer, Nyhedsavisen) and old (Urban, MetroXpress), and
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The disturbing story of the poisoning in London of KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko has been all over the news recently, and so much has been said about it that there's hardly much left to say - except pray that the outcome won't be lethal. Still, this
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In the run-up to this year's parliamentary election, Niklas Svensson was fired from Swedish tabloid Expressen after he had obtained access to the intranet of the country's former governing party, but failed to inform his editors about his 'good luck'. Now the former tabloid
Freesheets
Three months into a newspaper war that has seen the Danes bombarded with freesheets from left, right and centre, MetroXpressen's afternoon edition in Copenhagen throws in the towel (via Börsen, in Danish). The company's afternoon title was launched in August amidst a small avalanche of new
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In conference all day today and tomorrow