Here’s a great BBC piece by Clive James, a famous Australian transplant to the UK, about a story that has gripped the Australian media about a highly-regarded judge’s spectacular fall from grace after he got caught trying to avoid paying a speeding ticket.
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Clive James’ BBC Column About Aussie Judge
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Online Job-Hunting Tools
Seniors take note: Here’s a great piece from The New York Times over the weekend which has some great advice about how to be online-ready when you start your job hunt. It talks about professional networking sites like LinkedIn and Xing for networking and sites.google.com as a place to set up your own Web site. There’s even a little advice about how to clean up your online profile so recruiters don’t dig up ghastly online material that might count against you.
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British Press Cover Jade Goody’s Death
Jade Goody, the strange creation of the British media, was buried in Britain over the weekend with thousands coming out to watch the funeral procession. Here’s the Guardian’s story LINK.
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TV Stations Want College Grads With Multimedia Skills
This just in from Poynter’s Al Tompkins: An interesting post about TV stations going to recruit “backpack journalists” with multimedia skills. Here’s the LINK.
The pathway to a job in local TV news — provided you’re willing to work long hours for minimal pay — is perhaps easier now than it’s ever been for kids out of college with minimal experience but a willingness to learn on the fly.
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Print Media Gets Lampooned
This is cute. See what you think.
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College Paper Makes News for Porn Story
Well, the editors at The Appalacian, student newspaper of Appalachian State University, are learning first hand that sex sells. The first story in their four-part series on pornography was picked up by Gawker (and given a much raunchier treatment than the original story, I might add.) At the time of this posting the story had almost 3000 hits. Not a bad showing for a student paper. Here’s the video that ran alongside the story that was posted on the website.
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College News Site Sued for Posted Comments
Student website editors take note: Here’s an interesting story on the Student Press Law Center website about a former student at Louisiana State University who is suing the college paper, the Daily Reveille, for comments that were posted about him on their website. At the heart of the case is the question of whether newspaper websites are protected from liability for comments readers post on their sites.
Web site operators cannot usually be held liable for anonymous comments on their sites because Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act protects “Internet service providers” from liability for content posted by users. Though courts have widely ruled this protection from liability applies to newspaper Web sites that host comment forums, Esfeller does not believe the Reveille should be considered a liability-free “Internet service provider” since the its editors can choose which comments are posted on the stories.“As far as I’m concerned the Web site they provide is just an extension of their newspaper,” he said. “It would be the same thing as if they were printing these comments in their newspaper.”
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BBC’s April Fools’ List
The BBC has a great twist on an the April Fools’ Day tradition of running fake stories. They’ve put together a list of ten stories that sound like fake April Fools’ Day stories, but aren’t. The list includes Miss Universe describing Guantanamo Bay, where she has gone to visit as a morale boost for the troops, as a “relaxing place, so calm and beautiful.” Here’s the list LINK
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