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Lab Book Club: How economic incentives shape the news

Here’s the next installment of my interview with James Hamilton, author of this month’s Nieman Journalism Lab Book Club selection, All the News That’s Fit to Sell. Here we talk about Chapters 3 and 4, which use TV as a jumping-off point to discuss how economic incentives encourage certain kinds of news coverage and discourage [...]

1 comment | Posted by Joshua Benton | February 16, 2009 | 3:22 pm

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Michael Skoler on newsroom culture

Here’s the final installment of the Nieman Foundation’s recent panel on the future of journalism. This is Michael Skoler, executive director of the Center for Innovation in Journalism at American Public Media. (He’s currently on leave from that job.)
Michael is one of my favorite thinkers (and, more importantly, doers) in this field; through his [...]

4 comments | Posted by Joshua Benton | December 12, 2008 | 1:11 pm

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