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Is the Monitor a vision of 1 future 'norg'? (Common Sense Journalism)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:21:00 GMT

Alex Beam has a thoughtful column in the Boston Globe today looking at The Christian Science Monitor and how it might be the pattern for at least one type of future newsroom (he uses the term newspaper, but I prefer news organization ("norg" in some quarters). He makes some good points -- the focus is on context, yet the paper does get a share of breaking news. It's carved out a niche...

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Open Source Science? (In the Pipeline)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:40:23 GMT

The Boston Globe has a piece on the open-source science movement. Many readers here will have come across the idea before, but it’s interesting to see it make a large newspaper. (Admittedly, the Globe is more likely to cover this sort of thing than most metropolitan dailies, given the concentration of research jobs around here). The idea, as in open-source software development, is that...

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Young Scientists Posting Data Online (Red Orbit )

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:00:17 GMT

Young scientists are increasingly breaking with tradition by posting raw scientific data online, the Boston Globe reported. The newspaper said the open-science movement is considered a "brazen, potentially self-destructive move" to many in the scientific community.

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Just Another Jihadi Soccer Mom (The Corner)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:55:13 GMT

From the front page of the Boston Globe: WASHINGTON - She was a tiny woman with big convictions. While her fellow students at MIT read newspaper articles about the massacre of Muslims in Bosnia in the 1990s, Aafia Siddiqui sprang to action, giving slide shows and rousing speeches to collect donations for their cause. While other women from traditional Pakistani families stayed home after...

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Deborah Honeycutt: "I am the Democratic Party's Worst Nightmare." (Georgia Politics Unfiltered)

noreply@blogger.com (Andre) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:52:00 GMT

Yesterday, Talking Points Memo published a Deborah Honeycutt fundraising mail piece that it obtained from a reader in Iowa. The mailer was sent out by Honeycutt's direct mail fundraising firm, BMW Direct; a firm that recently was the target of scrutiny by the Boston Globe newspaper after an investigation showed that candidates who hire BMW Direct rarely see more than 20% of the money...

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Should we speak more than one language? (Language in Business)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:11:00 GMT

Caught in the grips of linguistic paranoia Nataly Kelly The Boston Globe, August 11, 2008 © Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/08/11/caught_in_the_grips_of_linguistic_paranoia/ Background In this article Kelly discusses the issue of whether Americans, and maybe their President, ought to learn to speak other languages....

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The Napster of Newspapers (Slog)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:26:21 GMT

Slate has a bizarre article about a newspaperthe Montgomery County Bulletin , circulation 20,000behaving like a blog. An ill-behaved blog that aggregates content without links and attribution. Over the course of three years, stories from Rolling Stone , Slate , the Boston Globe , USA Today , the Guardian , the Minneapolis Star-Tribune were all reprintedslightly alteredin the Bulletin ,...

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Hiding Haiti's Suffering (Rock The Truth)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:35:00 GMT

They are STARVING down there, and yet this is what we get in the Boston Globe newspaper today? "29 killed as brakes fail on loaded truck PORT-AU-PRINCE - At least 29 people were killed and 60 were hurt in a traffic pile-up outside the city of Les Cayes in southern Haiti, an official said yesterday. The accident occurred Saturday on a main highway near Cavaillon, about 14 miles from Les...

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EDITORIAL: The Clueless, Craven Boston Globe (La Russophobe)

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:52:11 GMT

EDITORIAL The Clueless, Craven Boston Globe It's genuinely sad, and downright embarrassing, to see an American newspaper bungle an analysis of Russia as badly as the Boston Globe did with a recent editorial called " Russia's new (and old) plan ." The Globe started out by calling Russia a country "that bears little resemblance to either the vanished Soviet Union or the economic...

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Globe 's Kranish uncritically reported McCain statement that Obama didn't vote to condemn MoveOn for ad (Media Matters)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:16:24 GMT

In a July 21 post to the Boston Globe blog Political Intelligence, staff writer Michael Kranish reported that Sen. John McCain "criticized [Sen. Barack] Obama for not voting for a resolution condemning the antiwar group MoveOn.org for a newspaper ad calling the top US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, 'General Betray Us.' " But Kranish did not note that, while Obama was not...

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Boston airfares rising faster than other cities (Cheapflights.com Flight News)

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:27:33 GMT

Ticket prices for travel from Boston Logan International Airport have risen by 27.5 percent this year, compared with a national average increase of 13.8 percent, according to figures analyzed by Farecast Live Search exclusively for The Boston Globe. The newspaper...

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Jewish Advocate Covers the Cambridge Peace Commission/Boston Globe Scandal (Solomonia)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:48:48 GMT

The local Jewish Advocate newspaper has done a front page story on the Boston Globe email scandal that Hillel Stavis broke here a couple of weeks ago. See: Emails Reveal: Boston Globe Reporter Sucks Up to the Cambridge Peace Commission....

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Massachusetts’s Country Men (Boston 1775)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:04:00 GMT

In response to the Boston Globe opinion piece by Prof. Edward Glaeser that I quoted yesterday , Brad Arndt of Somerville told the newspaper : Most militiamen who fought and perished for the colonial cause were conscripted into service from outlying farmlands and rural communities. And of these country men, a full two-thirds were either unsympathetic or indifferent to the war effort, aware...

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Microsoft may revive attempts to acquire Yahoo - The Boston Globe (Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check)

noreply@blogger.com (Peter) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:12:00 GMT

Getting close to the end of this chapter?... Under the discussions now taking place, Microsoft would buy Yahoo's search operations, the Journal said. Another company, such as Time Warner's AOL or News Corp.'s MySpace, would combine with the rest of Yahoo, the newspaper said. News Corp. owns The Wall Street Journal. Microsoft representatives met with Icahn to encourage him in his proxy battle,...

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Hugh Hewitt: Obama's Corrupt Housing Policy (Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:14:38 GMT

Barack Obama's got a big problem now that one newspaper --the Boston Globe-- has begun to scratch the surface of the South Side of Chicago's politico-sleaze culture: But a Globe review found that thousands of...

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Hugh Hewitt: Obama's Corrupt Housing Policy (Townhall.com)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:14:38 GMT

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Honeycutt's mail firm under fire (Political Insider | ajc.com)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:11:43 GMT

The Washington, D.C.-based direct mail firm that raised $1.1 million for Republican Deborah Honeycutt’s 2006 congressional bid spent very little of it on her campaign, according to a newspaper report. The Boston Globe reported in its Sunday editions that the...

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Newspaper Roundup: Boston Globe; Palm Beach Post; Detroit Buyouts; Default Chart (Paidcontent)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:28:10 GMT

-- Boston Globe Sale? : Speculation about the Boston Globe's future as a New York Times Company ( NYSE: NYT ) asset is about as persistent as YHOO-MSFT rumors. The latest from The Phoenix is a report that NYTCo chairman Arthur Sulzberger was asked at a staff town hall meeting if the paper is on the block. His reply, according to the paper's source: ""As you can imagine,...

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The Big Picture is not video (Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:56:41 GMT

This is the best blog everyone's seen so this year. So says everyone. And, astonishingly, it comes from a newspaper: The Boston Globe. Launched on 1 June, "In its first 20 days of existence, it's almost reached 1.5 million pageviews...

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How The Boston Globe Could Improve Their Website (chrisbrogan.com)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:25:49 GMT

Yesterday, one of my blog posts was featured in the Boston Globe. I’m really pleased by this, and I really like Scott Kirsner, who was kind enough to include me. And the Globe was kind enough to type out the name of my URL into both the newspaper and the website version. Only, no [...]

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