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2011′s 101 Best Articles
Daily Download Team | April 19th, 2012
Via Flickr user theseanster93
Every year, writer Conor Friedersdorf compiles a list of the previous year’s best non-fiction journalism. Yesterday, he released 2011′s, a massive listing of 101 long-form magazine articles, all linked and indexed.
Book Buyers, Beware
Philip Bump | April 18th, 2012
Via Flickr user It'sGreg
Book buying is still big business. Contrary to popular belief, the percentage of people who indicated that they’re currently reading a book or novel has increased over the past fifty years. At the same time, it’s never been easier to publish a book. Not necessarily with a big publishing house, of course, and not even necessarily for any substantial profit. But anyone with a minimal level of technical savvy can produce a book and leverage one of several online outlets to offer it for sale.
That is the point at which the hustles begin.
Dumbest Post – Wikipedia Contains Errors!
Daily Download Team | April 18th, 2012
Everyone, prepare to panic: perhaps as many as 6 in 10 Wikipedia articles contain errors! But the claim isn’t that the entire article is wrong, just that there might be one somewhere on the page. Which makes sense.
How Do You Get Viewers To Pay Attention To Ads? Engage Them.
Daily Download Team | April 18th, 2012
Via Flickr user x-ray delta one
How do you get people to stick around for an ad before an online video? Maybe you don’t need to.
An Exit Interview With Barney Frank
Daily Download Team | April 17th, 2012
Via the World Economic Forum
Whether or not you agree with his politics, it’s hard to disagree that this interview with out-going Massachusetts Congressmember Barney Frank is fascinating.
A Close Look at the Pulitzer-Winning Huffington Post
Daily Download Team | April 17th, 2012
Via the Knight Foundation
Shortly after the Huffington Post won its first Pulitzer, the Columbia Journalism Review released a fascinating, detailed look at how the website came to be, including tensions between and insights from both Arianna Huffington and her original partner Jonah Peretti.
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PressThink
PressThink is home to the insights and musings of Jay Rosen, the avid tweeter and journalism professor at New York University. Rosen is at his best when he’s questioning the fundamental assumptions of the news business, most notably the “church of the savvy” that he says prevents reporters from calling out politicians rather than admiring their ability to play the game. He writes: “Somewhere along the way, truthtelling was surpassed by other priorities the mainstream press felt a stronger duty to. These include such things as ‘maintaining objectivity,’ ‘not imposing a judgment,’ ‘refusing to take sides’ and sticking to what I have called the View from Nowhere.”
Latest Posts
Study Weighs Benefits of Organizing Recess
April 17th, 2012While an overwhelming number of elementary school principals believe in the power of recess to improve academic achievement and make students more focused in class, most discipline-related problems happen at school when kids cut loose at recess and lunch, according to surveys.
One of the solutions, according to a study released this week by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: more, and well-trained, staff on the playground.
DD Debates: Chelsea Clinton on NBC
April 17th, 2012A BuzzFeed article notes Chelsea Clinton’s rough tenure at NBC and raises a key question: why is she on the network? Daily Download debates.
DD on NewsHour: How the Campaigns Are Targeting You with Google Searches
April 19th, 2012In our regular NewsHour segment, Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz tell PBS’s Jeffrey Brown how the Obama and Romney campaigns are buying up Google search terms to target ads to potential voters. The president’s reelection team is being far more aggressive, buying up such terms as “Obama economy,” “immigration reform” and “Buffett Rule,” while the [...]
