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January 21st, 2009
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Lisa
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A sketch of local/online

I had a chance to speak to Peter Krasilovsky of The Local Onliner yesterday. It's always a treat to speak to someone who is as obsessive as I am about local online. Thank goodness there are a few of us; think how much I'd have to bore my...

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January 21st, 2009
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Tish

Obama's Inauguration Through the Eyes of Placebloggers

Like a lot of people in placebloggerland, I spent most of yesterday glued to the television watching what felt like the singularly most significant event in our lifetime: the inauguration of Barack H. Obama, our first African-American President. As some of us posted our thought on blogs, or...

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January 16th, 2009
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Lisa
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The Journalism Bubble

You've heard about the housing bubble. And the dot-com bubble. I'm here to tell you about The Journalism Bubble. Anybody who's paying attention to the state of journalism in the US is aware of the financial crisis facing the news industry. And there's wide agreement on...

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January 13th, 2009
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Lisa
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GlobalPost: Journalism in the Cloud

Congratulations to Charlie Sennott and his team on the launch of GlobalPost, a site that many see as a reaction to the shrinking number of foreign correspondents supported by US media outlets facing tough economic times.  My sense is that GlobalPost won't get much of a honeymoon, simply because expectations...

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January 9th, 2009
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Lisa

Oakland media gets a failing grade from local expert

My friend and colleague Susan Mernit recently reviewed the Oakland local media's response to the shooting of Oscar Grant and concluded that they've flunked.  I too was surprised at the dearth of local coverage of the shooting and the protests on independent Oakland sites.  Oakland itself is fairly well supplied...

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