Links tagged with “news”
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Article Skimmer
NY Time’s prototype news viewer. Nice idea but it equalises the importance of all but one of the stories. I want a newspaper to tell me what it thinks is important (even if it’s wrong). Otherwise it’s not a newspaper, it’s a database.
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Friday’s Newspaper Front Pages | UK News | Sky News
Gallery of (some) UK newspapers, with permalink to the day. (For current day go to UK News, then see link under ‘UK News in Pictures’ on right.
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PressDisplay.com - Newspapers From Around the World
Browsable versions of newspapers from around the world (click country links in left column). Costs money to see much though.
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BBC News | England | London | Smithfield market plans refused
A couple of weeks old. Phew. I’m not against redevelopment if it’s not going to be more glass offices and same-old shops.
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Twitter / novelsin3lines
I’m very much enjoying the 1906 French news summaries by Félix Fénéon (and not just because I wrote it up as an idea myself a while back). Lovely writing.
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Hong Kong’s Most Disturbing CG Illustrations « WITMOT?
Hong Kong’s ‘Apple Daily’ makes computer images for news stories when there are no photos. Hilarious, especially if you scroll down to Morgan Freeman. (via Ted Mills)
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“You Don’t Understand Our Audience” by John Hockenberry
“…a series of lessons I learned about how television news had lost its most basic journalistic instincts in its search for the audience-driven sweet spot, the ‘emotional center’ of the American people.” (via Oblinks)
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Journa-list.com
Like my Byliner.com but more comprehensive (yay) but only for UK newspapers (aww) and with higher ideals (yay).
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Crooked Timber » » Globollocks Watch
I like the “objective” scoring of articles. I want to do something similar to calculate genuine “newsworthiness”… +1 per person killed, +1 per million dollars stolen, etc. (via Nick Sweeney)
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BBC News | Grammatical Triumphs
Needs more frequent updating, but otherwise splendid.
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Vertikal.net > English Version
Crane industry news and discussion. (via Monocle)
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Musical copyright terms ‘to stay’
Yay. Is making money off your work fifty years after you did it not good enough!?
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Indie-Film Star ‘Suicide’ Stunner By Philip Messing, Mark Bulliet and Dan Mangan - New York Post Online Edition: Seven
Hell. Adrienne Shelly, who starred in Hal Hartley’s ‘The Unbelievable Truth’ and ‘Trust’ (two of my favourite films) has “apparently” committed suicide. I was always surprised she wasn’t in more films.
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BBC News | Technology | Sony admits to buying grey goods
This kind of thing makes me angry. Companies are dead set against regulation until they need it. “We’d like a free market please, but only when it suits us.”
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BBC News | Entertainment | Cult poet Ivor Cutler dies at 83
I missed this earlier in the week. I’m glad we went to see him a couple of years back, although I feared I wouldn’t see him again. Bye bye Ivor.