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NYT New Visual Literacy/Photojournalism Feature

How do you make sense of what you see when you look at an image, especially if that image comes with no caption, headline, links or other c…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Oct 15, 2012

Video Clips; WInning The Presidency

Fox Business Channel ran a special called "Winning The Presidency" and I have identified two brief segments which would be good to use with…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Oct 14, 2012

Website: Face The Facts

 Face the Facts USA is a project of The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs. The project employs staff from t…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Jul 29, 2012

Liar's Revelation in New Book Causes Slew of His Stories To Be Withdrawn

Not good news for fact-checkers or the journalism sites themselves: Websites Pull Slew of Stories After Media Manipulator's Lies Revealed

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Jul 20, 2012

NEW BOOK: Trust Me, I'm Lying -Official Book Trailer

Pretty dramatic trailer, obviously self-serving and complicated to assess given the title - but this is the guy who made American Apperal a…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Jul 20, 2012

BOOK: Front-Page Science: Engaging Teens in Science Literacy

How cool is this? Front-Page Science: Engaging Teens in Science Literacy By: Wendy Saul, Angela Kohnen, Alan Newman, and Laura Pearce $…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Jul 16, 2012

Detecting The Truth in Photographs

As technologies to manipulate images (like PhotoShop) grow ever more sophisticated, media organizations are using software to help determin…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Jul 14, 2012

ROBONEWS: Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter?

Important story about the Chicago based company Narrative Science whose tagline is "We Transform Data into Stories and Insight.™" I read th…

Started by Ryan Goble

0 Jun 14, 2012

All the News That’s Fit to Screen: Movies About Journalism

An upcoming screening of journalism-related films is the impetus for the New York Times to examine how the movies have portrayed journalist…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Jun 11, 2012

New Bio Examines Newsman Walter Cronkite As 'Most Trusted Man in America'

 Walter Cronkite's power was considerable and he used it for good. He flourished in the bargain and lived a heck of a life. None of that wi…

Started by Frank W. Baker

0 Jun 5, 2012

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