- A Sobering Statistic For Aspiring Academics // Savage Minds
- On the Gulf Between Academia and Journalism // Daniel Bennett
- Journalism Academics Must Learn From Multimedia Reporters // Tim Luckhurst
- Measuring the Impact of Charisma // (via) MIT Media Lab
- Google Applies to Become Power Marketer // NYT
- Crisis? What Crisis? // Abu Muqawama
Tag: journalism
The AfPakInd Channel?
Anyone interested in tracking that other interested party to AfPaK issues – namely, India – should really read friend Eric Randolph’s blog, The Kikobor. Eric just left his job as an editor with Jane’s Country Risk and relocated to the subcontinent a couple of months ago to work on his freelancing career. He’s been posting and publishing regularly, at the blog, in Britain’s Guardian newspaper and in Jane’s Intelligence Weekly.
If his new profile photos are any indication, it’s been a maturing experience, too. Seriously, he’s grown a very distinguished beard. It makes all the difference, I think…
Learning the Ropes
Or at least, the strings… Rob Crilly’s got some common-sense tips on how to be a stringer for media outlets – especially relevant in an age of spare budgets and lean news organizations, when the staff foreign correspondents are becoming an increasingly rare breed.
Though I take exception to eliminating the middle initial from my professional name. If I didn’t include it, then every time someone googled me they’d come up with this much better known individual…
Omnivore 06/10/09
Surgical Strikes Shape Afghanistan Debate, NYT, At War/New York Times
Afghan War Units Begin Two New Efforts, Yochi Dreazen, Washington Post
Kabul Notes: A Journey Into Afghanistan, Bernard-Henri Levy, The New Republic
General Petraeus Has Prostate Cancer, Eric Schmitt, New York Times
Pakistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security, Brookings Institute
New Rules To End Blogger “Payola”, Maggie Shiels, BBC News
Futurity Imperfect, Evan Lerner, Seed Magazine
Stephen Farrell’s Account of His Kidnapping
Stephen Farrell, the British New York Times journalist kidnapped for four days last week, has written a candid and vivid account of the ordeal and his rescue. Gripping.
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