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Dec. 7, 2010, 2 p.m.
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Clay Shirky Joins Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institue
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`The truth will always win’ – Julian Assange writes
Smartphone Users Prefer Mobile for Breaking News [STATS]
News Foo Camp: where TBD is ‘mainstream’
How Online Reading Habits Have Changed Over 2010
Washington Post not ‘going to be a pioneer’ in charging for online news
Don’t shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths
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What’s New in Digital Scholarship: Why journalists link (or why they don’t) and the libel potential of a retweet
The arguments for smarter public support of journalism, the rise of civic engagement in social media, and the changing practices of foreign correspondents: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
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“It certainly takes courage to speak — but it takes a different kind of courage to be silent, to listen, to trust, and speak when the time is right.”
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