Fixers -- fictional ones at least -- are hard at work helping citizens navigate the new health care law at the center of the current government shutdown. In the parody video, Scandalous, singer/actress Jennifer Hudson parodies the hugely popular ABC prime time drama, Scandal, as she runs about town highlighting the benefits of the Affordable Care Act. The video is produced by comedy website Funny or Die.  L ...

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10 tech tools journalists can start using as soon as they return to their newsrooms courtesy of Benet Wilson, Vice Chair of the NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force & social media/eNewsletter editor, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. ...

Journalism or free media attention? Peter Mwaura writes in Daily Nation that Al-Shabaab, the group taking responsibility for the mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya earlier this week, "stage managed a propaganda coup. Thanks to the worldwide web." The world media - newspapers, news agencies, and broadcasting organizations -- used information supplied by the Al-Shabaab as news, Mwaura writes. Separately, Al Jazeer ...

Moderating comments at websites that focus on the topics of race and culture can be time intensive and tough, but it's not as bad as some might think, according to at least two high-profile bloggers who specialize in writing on these issues. Latoya Peterson, owner and founder of Racialicious, a blog that focuses exclusively on race and pop culture, said negative comments on her site are no worse than those ...

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Diversity at network and local television news stations continues to decline, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Association of Black Journalists. The organization examined management ranks – not on-air talent or correspondents – where decisions are made about what stories are covered and how they are covered. NABJ found that African Americans, Native Americans, Asians, Hispanics and o ...

When it comes to making up stories, parts of stories or sources in a story, typically the same names usually surface: Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass, Patricia Smith and Janet Cooke. I was just getting my journalistic footing when these scribes were revealed to be little more than con artists, and so their names always served to be looming warning signs of what NOT to do in the business. Too bad, it seems, that ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLW_VOciufY Bias and bungled reporting on US news networks are behind plummeting audience numbers, according to the Gallup Poll. RT's Marina Portnaya looks at a cutting-edge project that's encouraging ordinary Americans to drive their country's news agenda instead. ...

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, a ...