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Comment on Get the Best Work from Your Oldest Staffers: Join Thursday’s Webinar from Fix Journalism by boothbybert

boothbybert — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:17:58 +0000

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Comment on Get the Best Work from Your Oldest Staffers: Join Thursday’s Webinar from Fix Journalism by omiglorialph

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Comment on Get the Best Work from Your Oldest Staffers: Join Thursday’s Webinar from Fix Journalism by ysuttintifan

ysuttintifan — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:47:21 +0000

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hanshewchel — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:14:01 +0000

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Comment on How do young people consume information? Why ‘serendipity’ is my new pet peeve by Ram

Ram — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:52:30 +0000

Nice article. Was researching for developing a News App. I think this article will get me going. BTW by commenting on this article I have become a ‘Commenting-Driller’ from a ‘Passive-driller’

Comment on When is advertising, journalism? Sometimes by Re: When is advertising journalism? | fix journalism

Re: When is advertising journalism? | fix journalism — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:24:49 +0000

[...] response to the previous post, Brian Duggan, Donica Mensing and I began an interesting disucssion via email. The question: Is [...]

Comment on When is advertising, journalism? Sometimes by Brian Duggan

Brian Duggan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:04:37 +0000

“Sometimes journalism acts like advertising and sometimes advertising acts like journalism. But I don’t think that makes them the same thing.”

I’ll second that.

Comment on When is advertising, journalism? Sometimes by Donica Mensing

Donica Mensing — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:43:43 +0000

One distinction between advertising and journalism is purpose. The purpose of an advertisement is to sell a product to benefit a particular individual or group or company. The purpose of journalism is to advocate for the public interest. The purpose is to enlighten, enliven, enrage or engage, period.

You could also argue the purpose of journalism is to help people develop a collective identity, to work together to solve public problems, to uncover public corruption, to develop a functioning community. Advertising is about explicitly selling a very specific product, belief, value, service.

Sometimes journalism acts like advertising and sometimes advertising acts like journalism. But I don’t think that makes them the same thing.

Comment on An interesting lesson about innovating by What questions does your company ask you? | fix journalism

What questions does your company ask you? | fix journalism — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:38:28 +0000

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