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At Ink-Drained Kvetch I've rounded up some perspectives on what the reported Google/Verizon discussions (disputed by both) might mean for content creators as well as consumers.

Over at Ink-Drained Kvetch, where I blog about media and journalism topics, I round up some recent links on defining journalism and Google's experimentation with the news.

After 25 years in newspapers, I’ve had a blast venturing far beyond my comfort zone, re-energizing the passions that I thought had been slipping away. Getting outside an institutional way of thinking and learning has been the best thing I could have done.



But while journalism and media will always be a major focus of what I explore here, lately I’ve been venturing beyond those topics and the work I’ve known all of my adult life.



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The American Journalism Review spoke with a number displaced journalists in a fascinating piece just published entitled "Is There Life After Newspapers?" and discovered that many of them are relatively pleased and fully engaged in new careers and lives. Even as they shake their heads at what's happening to the newspaper industry they left behind.



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Judy Stark, a former homes and gardens editor at the St. Petersburg Times and my classmate from the Poynter Institute's first "Standing Up for Journalism" workshop, has compiled a terrific guide to prepare for the Great Beyond. Here's Part I of her Journalists' Survival Guide on what to do before the ax falls. Part II is devoted to… Continue