Hey, Kid, Stop Your Downloadin'
...aunch Oct. 17 with at least 300,000 copies printed. It will be sold at newsstands across the country with a cover price of $5. The newspaper plans to publish the magazine once a year.
The magazine will feature articles on shopping for electronics, how to set them up at home, QA articles with experts......more...Blogs Taking Off in Cambodia
Blogs Taking Off in Cambodia
A Cambodian nonprofit worker traverses the country, teaching students to publish blogs. The project promotes democracy and spurs internet use in a land where few people have access to the web. Matt Reed reports from Phnom Penh.
By Matt Reed
2:00 a.m. July 20, 2005 PDT
PH...more... Academic Journals Open to Change
...of Medicine's PubMed, a free online database.
Being a professor myself, I know that for anyone going up for tenure, it matters a great deal where you publish. One article in Nature, Science or Cell is worth 10 articles in a lesser-known journal. How can PLoS overcome this?
The prestige of a journal ......more... Wiki Targets How-To Buffs
...on contributions from the public has its own set of challenges. First off, there's more than one way to do almost everything. Hannah said he plans to publish multiple how-to approaches on topics like, say, mixing a martini or attracting members of the opposite sex, one of the most popular categories......more... Time to Kill the Embargo
...o promote news gathering.
One major exception is the press embargo, when information is passed on to reporters with the understanding that they can't publish anything on it until a prearranged time. It is a common practice in science and medicine, and has been molded into a high art by publications ......more... Saving the Artistic Orphans
...te, but for some of the defunct papers, it is impossible to know who owns the back issues, Sprigman said.
In another case, an editor would like to re-publish the essays of Dr. Leo Alexander, who wrote articles that dissect Nazi ethics for criminology journals, but the author is dead and his heirs ha......more... Citizen Reporters Make the News
... By Leander Kahney.
By Leander Kahney
2:00 a.m. May 17, 2003 PDT
In the West, people with a journalistic bent turn to weblogs to exercise the urge to publish news or comment on events of the day.
But in South Korea, the publishing instinct is directed toward a big, collaborative online newspaper tha......more... Reporters Flout Cuban Censorship
... recent government crackdown on journalists who work outside the state-run media in Cuba -- and many other obstacles -- dissident writers continue to publish their work online. By Elisa Batista.
By Elisa Batista
2:00 a.m. April 10, 2003 PDT
Cuban journalist Ivan Garcia is anxious.
We are all afraid,......more... Critics Blast Cuban Crackdown
... a statement.
Ménard called the arrests one of the first cases of collateral damage in the second Gulf war.
The arrested journalists principally publish their articles on the Miami-based news sites Nueva Prensa Cubana and Cubanet.
While some critics have accused Cuba's unofficial reporters of b......more... |