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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

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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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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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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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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Globalization and Sports

April 18th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Baseball, Boston, Britain, Culture, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Immigration, Israel, Massachusetts, Personal, Red Sox, Sports, The Middle East, Traveling

JERUSALEM — Joe Queenan seem­ingly dis­likes for­eign fans of sports teams (those who who are not from the cities of those teams): I do not object to Yan­kees fans in prin­ci­ple, so long as they are home­grown, prefer­ably natives of the Bronx or Yonkers. (Yan­kees fans born in Queens or Brook­lyn, it goes with­out saying, […]

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Red Sox Opening Day

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Baseball, Boston, Israel, Judaism, Massachusetts, Personal, Red Sox, Religion, Sports, The Middle East

CAMBRIDGE, Mass­a­chu­setts — When I was edi­tor and pub­lisher of Spare Change News in Boston, I took the newspaper’s staff out to the Grafton Street Pub & Grill in 2006 for Red Sox Open­ing Day. I had been want­ing to treat them to some burg­ers and beers since every­one had been work­ing so hard to […]

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NCAA Picks">NCAA Picks

March 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Baseball, Boston, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Massachusetts, Personal, Red Sox, Religion, The Middle East

JERUSALEM — I didn’t study the teams in the NCAA tour­na­ment this year since I’m in Israel, so I don’t know any­thing about the teams right now. But for what it’s worth, here are my favorites in the regional semi­fi­nals: UNI over Michi­gan — I just never really liked Michi­gan. Too cold Ohio State over Tennessee […]

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