The President takes note of Sunshine Week
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President Obama released the following statement on Sunshine Week:
As Sunshine Week begins, I want to applaud everyone who has worked to increase transparency in government and recommit my administration to be the most open and transparent ever, an effort that will strengthen our democracy and ensure the public’s trust in [...]
Say, Mr. Vice President, can we talk about the middle class?
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I protest!
Okay, there, that’s done.
I just finished reading an interesting column by E.J. Dionne Jr. about a conversation he had with Vice President Biden and the thought occurred to me:
If you work for the Washington Post or the New York Times, you can sit down and have a conversation with the Vice President, [...]
Let the micropublishers reconstruct journalism
(Photo by Alex Barth, via Flickr.)
The Columbia Journalism Review published a report back in October called The Reconstruction of American Journalism. It starts like this:
American journalism is at a transformational moment, in which the era of dominant newspapers and influential network news divisions is rapidly giving way to one in which the gathering and distribution [...]

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