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lpintak

  1. My @Murrow Interview with former @Time online guru Craig Duff of @northwesternU @MedillSchool now online @ bit.ly/JqDV7D
  2. Everything you need to know about Egypt's revolution and election in four minutes, from the AP apne.ws/Jxg47q.
  3. @LamaSuryaDas, Nicholas Ribush and a host of teachers of Tibetan Buddhism will gather @ NY's Garrison Institute June-1-4. Open to all.
  4. Egyptian military continues its brutal abuse of journalists. #CPJ reports at least 18 assaulted in latest outrage bit.ly/IutRVZ.
  5. To all who pointed out my faulty math, YES, #Murrow was 104 yesterday, NOT 103!
  6. Important new Journalist Security Guide from #CPJ. On web at bit.ly/JJ3HSu and available via Kindle/Nook/iBookstore.
  7. Happy 103rd birthday Edward R. Murrow, born 4/25/08, from The Edward R. #Murrow College of Communication.
  8. There are journalism jobs out there, per new Georgetown study. Far fewer J-school grads unemployed than other grads bit.ly/JuT0pf
  9. Gary Graham column on recent #Murrow12 @carnegie @knightfdn @FCC symposium on rural broadband and local news access bit.ly/JikgCS
  10. British comic’s “primer” on the structure of a TV news story. Painfully true-to-life bit.ly/jeQ51V.
  11. Another icon of journalism passes with the death of CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace.
  12. Marilyn Berger-Hewitt on women journalists at #murrow yesterday: "I used to tell Don, I'm a woman at home and a journalist at work."
  13. Former #NBC #Newsday corr Marilyn Berger giving Charlotte Friel lecture today at #Murrow on her years covering White House and Kissinger.
  14. This might be the Mother of all Plagiarism Stories from @CharleyMemm on Columnists.com bit.ly/xT56DL
  15. Great "day in the life of the Internet" graphic. Some amazing/frightening figures. twitter.com/lpintak/status…
  16. BBC-Gallup poll finds 2/3 of the world believes they have free media bit.ly/HicXyB. That includes the Chinese; more than debatable.
  17. Indonesia can teach Egypt about post-revolution generals and politics (The Seattle Times) wp.me/p23mAe-h7
  18. Ira Glass’s Casablanca Moment with Mike Daisey (CJR.org) wp.me/p23mAe-h2
  19. Robin Young's interview with me about #Pakistani journalism on today's NPR show @hereandnow bit.ly/H4EKMz
  20. My piece on Indonesia’s lessons for Egypt ran in The Seattle Times Sunday: bit.ly/GTGYhZ