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Finding Mark Hoffmann

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Tomorrow, Lorraine Ahearn reports on the whereabouts of Mark Hoffmann, the homeless man who hung out on a bench near Friendly Center before he suddenly disappeared in May. The response we got from people who had seen…

Let's play 'Who's the Luddite now?' | yelvington.com

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For more than a decade there’s been a deep division in newspaper journalism between the “onliners” and the well, let’s face it, we all called them Luddites. Dinosaurs. People who just don’t get it.
But times c…

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Bzzzzt! Wrong! Community should be job #1 | yelvington.com

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Bzzzzt! Wrong! Community should be job #1 | yelvington.com

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Paul “Newspaper Death Watch” Gillin claims newspapers “can’t do much and they shouldn’t even try” to build community.
This is just thoroughly, thoroughly wrong, utterly self-defeating.
Failure to build community…

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Again, it's about people, not technology | yelvington.com

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Recovering Journalist: Death of Almost 1,000 Cuts

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It’s been a horrible week at quite a few newspapers. At one point I found myself staring at my Twitter updates as if it were a train wreck in progress. Mark Potts has a good summary and this comment:

The whiners…