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Thursday, April 07, 2011
Kevin Dayhoff The Tentacle: The 800-pound gorilla in the room... Free Speech and Despicable Acts
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Kevin Dayhoff The Tentacle: Where do we get such men?
April 6, 2011
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
Testimony of David Simon before the Senate Committee “Hearing on the future of Journalism.”
AOL’s Patch, a national chain of news websites, comes to the Baltimore ‘burbs
AOL’s Patch, a national chain of news websites, comes to the Baltimore ‘burbs
Will mass-producing community journalism like Big Macs slay it or save it? (A two-part Baltimore Brew special report.)
Friday, August 06, 2010
Business Insider - The Wire: AOL's Patch Is A Sweatshop Of 70-Hour Work Weeks With No Vacation, Editor Says
AOL's Patch Is A Sweatshop Of 70-Hour Work Weeks With No Vacation, Editor Says
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/aols-patch-is-a-sweatshop-of-70-hour-work-weeks-with-no-vacation-editors-email-suggests-2010-8
Today's Boston Globe story about Patch contains some noteworthy factoids about the scale of the rapidly growing AOL hyperlocal venture.
Like the fact that AOL is "spending $50 million to expand Patch nationally to hundreds of sites by the end of the year."
But before you go applying to be an editor at one of those sites, you might want to read the following email that one of Patch's local editors (there's typically one editor per site), sent to Northeastern University Journalism Professor Dan Kennedy.
The editor, who shared her thoughts anonymously (duh), said Patch editors work 70-hour weeks and are on call 24/7 without being able to take the vacation days promised them.
She writes: [...]
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/aols-patch-is-a-sweatshop-of-70-hour-work-weeks-with-no-vacation-editors-email-suggests-2010-8
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Business Insider - The Wire: AOL's Patch Is A Sweatshop Of 70-Hour Work Weeks With No Vacation, Editor Says
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Boston Globe: With Patch, AOL offers challenge to local news
With Patch, AOL offers challenge to local news
A risky Web strategy in a crowded field
Like any online user, Annie LaCourt can easily scour for news from around the world, but sometimes she prefers to make the Internet more intimate and local, all about her hometown of Arlington.
LaCourt reads The Boston Globe’s “Your Town’’ news pages on Boston.com's Arlington site. She also gets news from GateHouse Media Inc. and its Wicked Local Arlington site, and she subscribes to a 4,000-member town e-mail discussion board called “The Arlington List.’’ She also visits another community news site called yourarlington.com.
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LaCourt now has another choice: Patch. It’s AOL Inc.’s network of hyperlocal websites sprouting in Massachusetts and elsewhere across the country. Like its competitors, Patch is covering Arlington’s 42,000 residents on a micro-local level with stories about town hall meetings, the school board, high school sports, and events at the library.
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Media Nation by Dan Kennedy: Hard times working the Patch
Hard times working the Patch
Boston Globe reporter Johnny Diaz today writes about Patch.com, the AOL-owned network of hyperlocal news sites that is (excuse me) sprouting up around the country.
As I noted earlier, Diaz writes that Patch is up against considerable competition in Greater Boston, principally from GateHouse Media’s Wicked Local websitesand the Boston Globe’s Your Town sites — both of which, unlike Patch, are tied to established newspapers.
There are already 13 Patch sites in Massachusetts, with more to come.
After I posted my earlier Patch item, I heard from a Patch local editor (LE, in Patch-speak) who described working conditions that sound pretty challenging. Granted, community journalists in general work very hard for not much money. But the LE who wrote to me suggested that Patch takes it to another level.
The LE who contacted me asked that her name not be used, but gave me permission to publish her e-mail. I have verified that she is who she says she is. I don’t consider this to be the last word, and I would welcome a response from Patch. The e-mail:
The working conditions for local editors at Patch sites raise the question of whether this model is sustainable or about whether this is the reality for journalists working in this new media age.
Basically, the job is 24/7 with....
http://www.dankennedy.net/2010/08/05/hard-times-working-the-patch/
http://www.dankennedy.net/2010/08/05/hard-times-working-the-patch/
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
Yahoo Looking To Blow AOL's Patch Out Of The Water
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
Meet S.E. Cupp, conservative pundit beloved by Tucker Carlson and Nick Hornby alike
http://www.salon.com/news/se_cupp/index.html?story=/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2010/01/15/se_cupp_rightwing_star
Right-wing rising star
SE Cupp in the news
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Sunday, December 27, 2009
Meet AOL's Fresh-Faced Future Of Local News
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Paul Kenneth "Kenny" Burns has been a part of the media scene in the Washington / Baltimore Area for 15 years
He also assists with Doug Stephan's Good Day and The G. Gordon Liddy Show. Kenny remains in his on-air capacity as a substitute news anchor for Dateline
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Thursday, October 01, 2009
You can't monetize jerks
School librarians won't let censors throw the book at them: Connie Schultz
Web sites' anonymity brings out the worst in some posters: Connie Schultz
Wielding prayer like a club isn't what God intended: Connie Schultz
Web sites' anonymity brings out the worst in some posters: Connie Schultz
http://www.cleveland.com/schultz/index.ssf/2009/09/web_sites_anonymity_brings_out.html
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Prometeus - The Media Revolution part 2
In the year 2015 people have access to a deep information… However the press as you know it has ceased to exist. The road to 2015 began in the late 20th century.
Hat Tip: Ryan Marshall
Retrieved September 30, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY5hBd8_Q-E
20090930 sdosm Prometeus The Media Revolution part 2