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What this American blogger learned from her Uzbek counterparts

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A group of four journalists from Uzbekistan traveled to the United States this week for a series of seminars and meetings with local journalists. World Partnerships, Inc., an organization based in downtown St. Petersburg, brought the journalists to the U.S. to further their educations in various medias and learn about U.S. journalism practices. The group met with this reporter Friday afternoon to discuss American blogging practices and ask questions about the overall media climate in the U.S. Speaking mostly through an…

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Poynter to host Pulitzer Prize centennial celebration

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The Poynter Institute has been selected to host a two-day event honoring 100 years of Pulitzer Prizes. The downtown St. Pete continuing education resource for journalists and other writers was chosen by the Pulitzer Prize Board to host the events on Thursday, March 31, 2016, and April 1, 2016. The seminar is aimed at highlighting the historical achievement of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists covering topics like civil rights, social equality and democracy. “Like the Pulitzer Prizes, the Poynter Institute is dedicated…

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Florence Snyder: Fed up with elite reporters on “Permanent Campaign”

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Former governor and probable presidential hopeful Jeb Bush calls them “the 20 people who talk to each other.” You know, the folks who make their living in and around The Permanent Campaign. There’s an Internet site that counts down the days, hours, minutes and seconds from one election to the next. The political press refers to it often, as if it were important. Fake newscaster John Oliver spoke for millions of fed-up, frustrated Americans recently when he told reporters he…

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The 50 words that most often stump NYT readers

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“I don’t suggest banning any of them — in some cases they may be the perfect choice, and we refuse to talk down to readers or dumb down our prose,” writes Times standards editor Philip B. Corbett. “Still, we should remember that this is journalism, not philology.” Continue reading here.

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