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How much is too much?: Controversial photography of the Haitian Earthquakes

“Did news outlets publish images that were too graphic, and too many of them?” This is the question posed in “Too Graphic?”, a piece by Arielle Emmett.

The essay outlines the controversy of posting edgy photographs from a natural disaster, …

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The end of secrecy as we know it

There’s a clever slogan from a local night club photography website based here in Orlando. It is “We’re not responsible for your bf / gf issues”. This is because everything you do at the night club is going to be …

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Information: For Free or Not For Free? That is the Question.

In 1984, futurist Stewart Brand wrote, “Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.” He would go on to elaborate, stating that it wants to be free because it has become so inexpensive to distribute and gather. …

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New Media: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

“Learning to Love the New Media” by James Fallows is peppered with comparisons of the old fashioned and new-aged media. Back in the day, you had a much cleaner, clearer news-based output that had a fraction of the stories, but …

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Collaborative Journalism: Putting Our Minds Together for the Greater Good

Collaborative Journalism, that is two or more publications working together to provide the news, is on the uprise. As stated in “The Reconstruction of American Journalism”, “A growing number of newspapers also are supplementing their reduced resources for news reporting …

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