Commentary: Is Social Media the Journalism of the Future?
The Daily Record (Baltimore) › May 09, 2009
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It's a rough day for those of us in the newspaper business as I write this. The Baltimore Sun just went through another bloodletting: 61 employees laid off abruptly.
News of cuts like this one has almost become white noise: it's constant. At least, it seems that way. When Tribune Co. bought The Sun in 1999, there were 420 journalists in the newsroom. As of May 1, there were 148.See the full content of this document
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Commentary: Is Social Media the Journalism of the Future?
That's just one of the reasons I find ideas like BreakingTweets.com so encouraging. What our industry needs more than ever are entrepreneurs like Craig Kanalley, a 23-year-old journalism graduate student at DePaul University in Ch...
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