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Digital Drudgery and Second-Stage Shovelware

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The medium is a different one, and allows different forms of journalism.&#. Second, they are taking an exciting new medium for journalists and making it look like drudgery and grunt work. It’s understandable that those who work for such publishers are upset. “The internet does not possess this quality.

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Should Journalists Learn to Code?

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The benefit of learning some programming is in understanding the medium you’re working in, and in being able to converse with and, more importantly, influence the technical staff that manage it. Why should we expect less of journalists who work online? Why should we expect less of journalists who work online?

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Are You Highly Digital? Try This Test

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So let’s say, then, that you can consider yourself highly digital if you meet the following versions of their four characteristics: Most of the work you do appears in digital form either first or exclusively. You generate your work on your own, with little need for assistance, using a variety of digital tools. Are you highly digital?

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The Best Formats Are Invisible

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The point of new media is immediacy, direct connection, and that works best when the format recedes into the background of your attention and becomes virtually invisible. When you have to spend too much of your time clicking and zooming, you become too conscious of the medium, and lose sight of the message.

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My Love for Magazines Lies Bleeding

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Full magazine pages, she says don’t work well: “You can zoom, but when you to to the next page, you pop back out to seeing the full page, and to read anything, you have to zoom again.” They work as well for me on a tablet as on a page. I was too distracted to actually do any concentrated reading.

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Breaking News: People Who Like Print, Like Print

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The results show that when asked what forms of media these professionals use in their work, 74% chose print publications, just three percentage points below the top choice, search engines, and tied with e-newsletters. But the thing about Readex is that much of their work is for publishers. Can Printcasting Print-on-Demand Work for B2B?

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Doubling Down on Print, for Better or Worse

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They just want to tell a story, or convey information, or to create works of art out of their words. There are a few books for which the physical medium of print matters in an essential way. In the same way, unlike book designers, most writers don’t care in a meaningful way about the physical presence of a book.

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