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By Clarence Cromwell
This book is an important read for bloggers and online journalists because it documents, over and over, the greatest malady of the big news media: a chronic failure to document facts and impressions that should be clear to a reasonable person. In the author’s words, the political news is sometimes not “based. . [...]

Fact: There are 1,452 daily newspapers in the U.S., but there are more than 175,000 new blogs every day.
Fact: About 57 million Americans will read blogs on any given day.
(Sources: World Almanac and Book of Facts 2007. Technorati.com.)

By Clarence Cromwell

1.) Do your own reporting. This will floor some bloggers, but when I say “journalists,” I’m only talking about people who do their own research. If you take a look around the Web, you’ll see that the best work comes from original reporting. Dig up some documents that need to see daylight, or [...]

By Clarence Cromwell
“The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect,” by Kovach and Rosenstiel. This book explains the principles of journalism, and why it is crucial to democracy. Don’t think that the ideas contained here are only for paper-age newsosaurs; this book gives an effective rundown of the trends that [...]

By Clarence Cromwell
Another term for what this site promotes is democratic journalism, which sums up the excitement fairly well.
The best way to explain it is by comparison to western government: We put the tyrants out a long time ago and moved power into the hands of the people. Why hasn’t journalism gone that far?
Granted, newspaper [...]

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