Blogs Posts on "Journalism"

Photoshop Ethics Debate by Ramen & Rand on Apr 16, 2010One of my photo professors recently linked to this story on the ethics of Photoshopping pictures. A Danish photographer was disqualified from the "Pictures of the Year" competition after his original RAW file and Photoshopped entry were compared. The...

Oprah Winfrey to call it quits on talk show in 2011 by Lucire: Insider on Nov 19, 2009The Oprah Winfrey Show will broadcast its final episode on September 9, 2011, according to sources.    Oprah Winfrey’s company, Harpo, Inc., officially announced the end of the show on Thursday. A public announcement will be m...

Echoblowcation: Nota Bene #2009-41 by Scholars & Rogues on Nov 18, 2009A few things for you NB readers: 1. NB is now numbered by year-issue instead of marked by date; 2. NB will continue to be issued weekly, but not necessarily on Monday night/Tuesday morning; 3. I liked last week’s format (quoted line from source...

Ice on fire: The next fossil fuel by Psyched.bE.Blog on Nov 17, 2009Ice on fire: The next fossil fuel 24 June 2009 by Fred Pearce DEEP in the Arctic Circle, in the Messoyakha gas field of western Siberia, lies a mystery. Back in 1970, Russian engineers began pumping natural gas from beneath the permafrost and pip...

A media opportunity as Sarah Palin, aided by Oprah, goes to the mainstream by Lucire: Insider on Nov 16, 2009American readers will get to see Oprah Winfrey interview Sarah Palin today, in what is widely tipped to be a casual, feel-good special to promote the former governor’s book, Going Rogue.    Some media have tipped this as the launch of ‘...

Weekend Reading Roundup v. 27 by Chasing Dragons on Nov 15, 2009In this edition of the weekend reading roundup: 'Saving New Orleans Culture, One Sandwich at a Time' by John T. Edge from the United Tastes series at the New York Times 'Kim Jong Il's Assassination Fears' by Lee Jong-Heon at UPI.com 'Anniversaries of...

Cassius shows ’10 campaign visuals by Lucire: Insider on Nov 14, 2009We love these new visuals that Jason Ng at Cassius Eyewear sent to us earlier this month. The extra good news, apart from doing some very stylish eyewear, is that his company is getting more attention domestically—until recently, it seemed Cassius...

Artificial ionosphere creates bullseye in the sky by Psyched.bE.Blog on Nov 14, 2009HAARP: Artificial ionosphere creates bullseye in the sky Naomi Lubick Auroral experiments make glowing plasma patch An experiment that fires powerful radio waves into the sky has created a patch of ‘artificial ionosphere’, mimicking t...

Lou Dobbs’ next horizon: A Rush to radio? by Scholars & Rogues on Nov 13, 2009I have three stuffed animals at home that I hide when I expect visitors. (Guys don’t do stuffed animals.) But my fuzzy critters serve a purpose. Four years ago, I destroyed my living room TV set by throwing a beer bottle at it in anger and frus...

Upcoming Events: Citizen Journalism Conference at Monmouth University by JerseySmarts.com on Nov 11, 2009There are a lot of reasons why I choose to write this blog. I write it to keep people in my life updated on what I’m thinking and what’s going on in my life, I write it to express an opinion, I write it to spread that information which I...