Tag: journalism
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Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior
The opening monologue of the 2003 film Shattered Glass: Some reporters think it’s political content that makes a story memorable. I think it’s the people you find… their quirks, their flaws, what makes them funny, what makes them human. Journalism is just the art of capturing behavior. You have to know who you’re writing for.…
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Say hi to Mosul Eye
The AP has an incredible story about an Iraqi man named Omar Mohammed who courageously chronicled the savagery of the Islamic State as an undercover blogger, using the moniker Mosul Eye: For nearly two years, he’d wandered the streets of occupied Mosul, chatting with shopkeepers and Islamic State fighters, visiting friends who worked at the hospital,…
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DDC 070-079: Carryin’ the banner
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: 070 Journalism, and newspapers 071 Newspapers in North America 072 Newspapers in British Isles; in England 073 Newspapers in central Europe; in Germany 074 Newspapers in France & Monaco 075 Newspapers in Italy & adjacent islands 076 Newspapers in Iberian Peninsula & adjacent islands 077 Newspapers…
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DDC 050-059: Killer serials
A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: 050 General serials & their Indexes 051 Serials in American English 052 Serials in English 053 Serials in other Germanic languages 054 Serials in French, Occitan & Catalan 055 Serials in Italian, Romanian & related languages 056 Serials in Spanish & Portuguese 057 Serials in Slavic…
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Sylvanus Cadwallader
Part of the Cool Civil War Names series. Probably my favorite name thus far. A true journalist during a time when mainstream journalism consisted of BRASH, HYSTERICAL HEADLINES!!! and Limbaughesque vituperation, Cadwallader began his newspaper career in Milwaukee before joining the Chicago Times and later the New York Herald as a war correspondent embedded with General Ulysses…