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There are more than 210 million Internet users in China, and according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, nearly all of them want Big Brother watching over their shoulders when they surf. From the report: Many Americans assume that China’s internet users are both aware of and unhappy about their government’s oversight and [...]

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Last night I stumbled upon one of the most chilling and touching print journalism pieces I’ve seen in a while, courtesy of the Guardian‘s Tania Branigan. It is painfully human and will make you want to cry. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Tenderly, she eased the clean fleece over her little boy’s hand and [...]

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Looking for hockey coverage, I came across an excellent Boston Globe feature on David Farmer, a Boston doctor who set up a free hospital in one of the Rwandan regions hardest hit by the 1994 genocide that killed 800,000 people, mostly by machete. Farmer, who teaches at Harvard, was taken to Ruhengeri, in the country’s [...]

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CNN has fired a well-respected, Emmy-winning producer for blogging, raising the question of whether journalists who voice their opinions outside the newsroom are too biased to report the news. In April 2006, producer Chez Pazienza started a blog to keep his mind sharp following brain surgery. As his site grew in popularity, Pazienza insists that [...]

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