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http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2013/05/15/i-am-a-coding-denier/

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 09:27
"We need to acknowledge that ‘coding’ is a skill that has become as central to working effectively in journalism as using shorthand, the pen, or the alphabet."

Don't hate the Clayer, hate the claim

Mon, 04/22/2013 - 16:50
"So, Clay, maybe next time you smack me and my business in the face with a velvet-wrapped two-by-four, you could at least pick up the phone first to check that we’re really as rich as you think we are."

How the Daily Mail Became The World's Most Read Newspaper

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 13:56
Stop clicking.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/03/05/the-problem-with-online-freelance-journalism/

Wed, 03/06/2013 - 15:01
"The lesson here, then, is not that digital journalism doesn’t pay. It does pay, and often it pays better than print journalism. Rather, the lesson is that if you want to earn money in digital journalism, you’re probably going to have to get a full-time job somewhere. [..] Digital journalism isn’t really about writing, any more — not in the manner that freelance print journalists understand it, anyway. Instead, it’s more about reading, and aggregating, and working in teams; doing all the work that used to happen in old print-magazine offices, but doing it on a vastly compressed timescale."