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Daily Archives: 4 October 2009

Dan Gillmor’s 22 new rules of news

Posted on 4 October 2009 by Geoff

I think this is an excellent list (slightly ironic, given rule 11) about how journalistic practices should be reformed for the web age. This article from the Guardian is Creative Commons licenced, so I’ve taken the liberty and reproduced below Dan Gillmor’s list of 22 things that he’d insist upon if he ran a news organization:

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