journalism

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Talk loudly and carry a big schtick

The people who are paid to get corporate messages across outnumber daily news journalists by nearly 10 to 1. That’s not even a fair fight. So what responsibility do PR people have?

Dylan Tweney Mar 1, 2017 3 min read

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Journalism in the Age of Online Collaboration

Savvy journalists have adapted (or have been forced to adapt) to a new, more collaborative publishing model online. Here are my notes from a keynote presentation I delivered on this topic at the OCLC Collaboration Forum, held at the Smithsonian, on September 21. Matsuo Kinsaku was born around 1644 i

Dylan Tweney Oct 19, 2010 6 min read

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Ledes for the ages.

From 1925: The pens and tongues of contumely were arrested. Mocking mouths were shut. Even righteous protestation hushed its clamor, as when, having striven manfully in single combat, a high-helmed champion is stricken by Jove’s bolt and the two snarling armies stand at sudden gaze, astonished and b

Dylan Tweney Apr 22, 2010 1 min read

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Big Money in Journalism

I’ll admit it: I got into journalism for the money. Columbia Journalism School dean Nicholas Lemann has said: “I’ve never met a single person in 35 years who went into journalism out of pure economic reason.” He never met me. While my motivation wasn’t purely financial, I’d be lying if I said that w

Dylan Tweney Jul 23, 2009 3 min read

Talk loudly and carry a big schtick

Journalism in the Age of Online Collaboration

Ledes for the ages.

Big Money in Journalism

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