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BEST ‘HELP WANTED’ AD EVER!!!

So you've probably already seen Marina Shifrin's interpretive dance video exit from her place of employment that went viral this week. Well, her former bosses at Next Media Animation respond with a dance video of their own in which they announce, "We're Hiring." Have resume, will travel! Enjoy the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ukGrwL4ky4 And just in case, by some miracle, you missed it, here's Mari ...

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What Soap Operas Can Teach Newspapers About Survival

Those who know me best, know that I'm a total fan girl for soap operas. The juicier, the better. I even created a blog and launched popular social media fan pages honoring As The World Turns, a sudser that was canceled by CBS in 2010. My mother said she went into labor with me while watching World Turns and that's probably where my love for high drama started. But like the news industry -- my other passion ...

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The 20 Richest Members of Congress With Ties To Media & Technology

Each year CQ Roll Call publishes a list of the 50 richest members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives; and for the past two years we've reviewed the list to determine how much of these members' largess is connected to the lucrative media and technology sectors. (For context: The 10 poorest members of congress are dairy farmers, lawyers, small business owners and lifetime public servants.) From n ...

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12 Of The Smartest Women of Color On Twitter

Fast Company, the premier magazine about media and technology, put out one of those lists again. This time it's the 25 Smartest Women on Twitter. Though the list is not meant to be exhaustive, it is still severely lacking in terms of diversity. The list, featured in the magazine's "Work Smart" section, was published days after Harvard's Shorenstein Center and Neiman Journalism Lab published a report that co ...

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Free Flow of Information Act: how problematic?

Last week the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Free Flow of Information Act, which prohibits a federal entity from compelling certain 'covered parties' to testify or reveal confidential information and sources. Introduced by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York), it grants privilege for 'covered parties,' with an exception for cases deemed to be critical to national security. It amounts to a federal m ...

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Turn that great idea into a digital film or web series

Hosted by yours truly. The Digital Journalism Task Force will host a Google Hangout with award winning filmmaker Stacey Muhammad. During the one-hour chat journalists will learn how to turn their digital dreams into reality. The hangout will take place Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time. Tracie Powell, Co-chair of NABJ Digital and Vice Chair - Policy, will moderate. More about Stacey Muh ...

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NBC Gives Viewers More of the Same with New Today Show Pick

NBC announced today that television and radio show host Carson Daly would join Matt Lauer and company on the Today Show. The unsurprising move is a likely attempt to shore up the network's falling ratings that accelerated after the unceremonious exit of former co-anchor Ann Curry. But the new hire is also an opportunity for NBC to groom a possible replacement for Lauer and also a missed opportunity for the ...

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Has NBC News Lost Its Way?

NBC News is drawing fire this week from multiple corners. New York Magazine on Sunday published a scathing report on the machinations behind the ouster of former Today Show co-anchor Ann Curry. A day later media observers learned that  the “Peacock Network” promoted an interview with convicted child molester and famed college football coach Jerry Sandusky without initially telling viewers that the interview ...

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Why ‘Washington Watch with Roland Martin’ is Must See TV

Roland Martin is a multi-tasker. Minutes after finishing a shoot of TV One’s “Washington Watch with Roland Martin,” the Texas-bred Martin scarfs down lunch in the entry way of the studio while meeting with producers to plan the guest list for the next show. On his walk down to the garage of the glass-front building that is Washington, D.C. headquarters for TV One, Martin twice interrupts our interview: once ...

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New Media Looks A Lot Like Old Media: Not Very Diverse

Print publications and television news outlets have long come under fire for the limited way in which they report on people of color. But a study published this week by The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard shows that online media isn't doing much better. With exceptions for the occasional celebrity, person of influence or athlete, there was little to no coverage of the everyday lives of blacks, H ...

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