This Month in Media News

All the media news you were too busy working to read

It’s that time of the month! While you were hunched over your keyboard writing articles and SEO-ing the heck out of your blog, you may have missed these industry nuggets: You may have heard that Editor & Publisher will cease publication at the end of the year, but you may have missed this great Q&A between Greg Marx of Columbus Journalism Review and Editor & Publisher’s editor-in-chief Greg Mitchell. Like eating? Like blogging about eating? If you can articulate the difference between nutmeg and cinnamon you may be interested in learning: Spanfeller Preps Foodie Launch for Web from AdWeek. What [Read more…]

Spin? What Spin? The Latest in Writing News

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In this highly charged, high-stakes election year, charges of media bias have been leveled at every media outlet. Bloggers, TV newscasters and newspapers have received the brunt of the charges, but there may be a  solution on the horizon. The buzz this week surrounds a new Web site that claims it has software that can spot the spin in an article. In a BusinessWeek.Com article out this week, SpinSpotter.Com is highlighted as a possible solution to the embattled news media by either revealing bias to the point where outlets would be forced to conduct themselves according to writing ethics or [Read more…]

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