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Old Journalism’s Demise.Good News For Us!

Bad Pitch Blog

While most recognized that Web properties are two-way streets, venerable newspapers and ages-old magazines kept thinking they ruled our worlds. As a guy who wrote for dozens of newspapers in the 1980s, I can report (get it?) Unlike most of us, owners have not been paying attention to a wide world of newish (free for everyone) media.

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#20: Building the bridge between infrastructure and data-driven media intelligence

NewsWhip

Meanwhile, when you have a developer doing the extensive work and research of a thousand pages of a permit application, an opponent and activist or someone who just doesn’t totally understand it because they didn’t read 500 pages of text, they only need 280 characters of a Tweet to generate a 500 word newspaper article.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

Way before newspapers, the Romans and Greeks used scrolls, Egyptians used papyrus, and ancient China used a form of paper to distribute information, even if that information was limited to an inner circle of elites or an educated few in those cases. China is credited with starting the world's first newspaper.

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