Wall Street has long been a street of myths, pretty much propelled by an overwhelming belief that the path of both the economy and the stock market is one directional–inevitably up.
Posts Tagged ‘story’
Bettany & Connelly’s Darwin Movie To Open Toronto Film Festival
TORONTO — Real-life couple Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany will kick off the Toronto International Film Festival with the life story of Charles Darwin.
Bettany stars as the theory-of-evolution pioneer and Connelly plays his wife in “…
Aspen Baker: The Moral of My Abortion Story
It’s a shame that so many pro-choice people want to shut down any conversation about abortion’s morality, or ethics, because when they do, they shut down women.
Reese Schonfeld: Who Delivers the News?
On July 6th, half-dozen troops were killed in Afghanistan by IED explosions. Those deaths underline the need to pay attention to the troops’ equipment. I expected more reporting on the issue. There wasn’t any.
Why not writing a story is innovation
Discussions about journalism innovation usually focus on technology: Twitter, RSS, Flash, Django, data visualization, and all the other cool stuff that’s making online news so rich.
But there’s an equally important conceptual aspect of journalism innovation. Newsrooms have to rethink the kind of stories they cover and the way they tell those stories, or all the [...]
Associated Press Hands Local And National News Sites An Opportunity To Get Links And Traffic
The Associated Press is facing a blog firestorm after issuing take down notices to Drudge Retort for linking to and reproducing snippets of AP stories. AP is now attempting to define how their stories can be linked to and excerpted — and the response from the blogosphere appears to be to boycott the AP, i.e. [...]




Digital media and the future of journalism
I mentioned earlier this week the session on digital media and journalism I chaired at the Communicate conference in London. One of our speakers was Ruth Sunderland, business and media editor of The Observer – The Guardian/Observer media group being one of the earliest adopters of digital in the mainstream UK media. Ruth kindly shared [...]