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The New York Times has a massive piece, One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex, about Barry R. McCaffrey, a retired American four-star Army general, military analyst for NBC News, paid lobbyist for American defence…

The Wall Street Journal will launch a social network for business people, starting Tuesday. If it’s successful, says a New York Times blogger, “it could provide lessons for other news organizations trying…

In A Penny for My Thoughts? Maureen Dowd interviews James Macpherson, the self-styled, bow-tied “pioneer” of “glocal” news. Macpherson owns a Pasadena news outlet that fired all professional journalism staff and outsourced…

The English online version of German newsmagazine Der Spiegel and NRC.nl/international, the English-language Web site of Netherlands daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad, announced a new partnership “to launch a Europe-wide network of publishers…

Arianna Huffington’s new book contends new and old media “are rapidly joining together to bring out the best in each other,” said a Reuters story, based on a pre-book-launch interview with Huffington.…

Hours after BBC journalist Kate Peyton arrived in Mogadishu, she was shot in the back and died. That was in February, 2005, and now a coroner’s report concludes she didn’t want the…

A new, quirky movement, slow blogging, aims to “reject immediacy” and embrace “a willingness to remain silent amid the daily outrages and ecstasies that fill nothing more than single moments in time.”

“Newspapers and news magazines should seek to revitalize the provincial/regional press councils and ensure that identifiable groups are able to pursue complaints if they feel they have been unfairly represented in mainstream…

“When technology shifts, it bends the culture,” observes Wired writer Kevin Kelly in a long, thinky piece in the New York Times Magazine’s Idea Lab section…

You can almost hear the huffing and puffing of the unsigned Canadian Press reporter who wrote about the “forced march” engineered by Pauline Marois. “Bleary-eyed and freezing, a group of journalists was…