BOSTON — When I was an editorial assistant at the Boston Globe while in college in the summer and fall of 2000, the newspaper went through a major redesign. The “Metro” section was renamed “City & Region” (to improve branding in suburban areas). The newsprint, font, and type size were changed (to make the print […]
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Improving Journalism Worldwide Despite Political Bias
August 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Boston, Business, Culture, Education, Journalism, Marketing, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, The Boston Globe
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Snooki, Jersey Shore, and Online-Dating Websites
August 5th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Boston, Culture, Dating, Economics, Entertainment, Feminism, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
BOSTON and JERUSALEM — So I was once attending a “Soul Food Shabbat” at Temple Israel, a Reform congregation that had a Friday-night service geared towards twentysomethings and thirtysomethings that included a rock band performing the religious music. Of course, it was also a dating meat-market outside of online-dating websites, online-dating agency, and online-dating service. […]
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Journalism Career: Register with Government?
June 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Boston, Business, Civil Liberties, Education, Journalism, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics
A state legislator in Michigan has proposed a bill that would encourage journalists to register with a “Board of Michigan Registered Reporters” list to help the public know which ones are legitimate: State Sen. Bruce Patterson is introducing legislation that will regulate reporters much as the state regulates hairdressers, auto mechanics and plumbers. Patterson, who […]
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Definition of Journalism: Public Journalism for Online Reporters
June 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Boston, Business, Education, Journalism, Law, Marketing, Massachusetts, Media, Personal, Politics, SEO, Technology, The Middle East
JERUSALEM — Ha’aretz, an Israeli newspaper, asks the important question of how the Internet has changed journalism in light of a local conference on “Democracy and its Challenges”: Having a laptop and cell phone with a camera built into it doesn’t necessarily make you a journalist, the journalist and writer Pierre Asselin said on Monday… […]
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SEO Killed Headlines">How SEO Killed Headlines
May 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Advertising, Boston, Business, Humor, Journalism, Language, Marketing, Media, Personal, SEO, Technology
David Carr writes an insightful piece on how keyword-heavy headlines have destroyed the noble — or at least comedic — art of newspaper headline-writing: Headlines in newspapers and magazines were once written with readers in mind, to be clever or catchy or evocative. Now headlines are just there to get the search engines to notice. […]
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Birthright Israel: Footage of (Pre-State) Israel
May 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Boston, Britain, Civil Liberties, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Massachusetts, Media, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War
Every wonder what Israel and the region of Palestine looked like before the Jewish state declared independence in 1948? Here is some recently-unearthed footage — in color! — from that time. (Hebrew with English subtitles.) I am completely amazed at how much the country as changed — especially Tel Aviv and the Center region. The […]
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Letter from Israel: The Meaning of Israel
May 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Bible, Boston, Business, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Economics, Entertainment, Europe, Finance, Islam, Israel, Jihad, Judaism, Letters from Israel, Palestine, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Russia, The Middle East, War on Terror, terrorism
Eighteenth in an ongoing series JERUSALEM — As I have lived in Israel for more than two years, I have observed the many complexities and contradictions of life — both positive and negative — in the Holy Land. I frequently describe this place to Westerners as the perfect combination of heaven and hell, and I […]
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Benefits of Internships
May 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Boston, Business, Culture, Education, Journalism, Law, Massachusetts, Media, Personal
In a recent post on teenage workers, I wondered whether the decline in part-time and summer jobs for teens might hamper their professional development. Now, this news from New York makes me worried for college students working at internships: With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships has climbed in recent […]
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