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The Chicago Sun-Times Says It Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Photographers

By on June 3, 2013 in Art, Culture, Hardware, Odds And Ends, Smartphones
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The Chicago Tribune reported on Thursday that its local competition, the Chicago Sun-Times, laid off its entire photography staff and plans to use a combination of reporters and freelance photographers to capture photos of the news instead. In a memo to staffers, managing editor Craig Newman informed Sun-Times reporters that they will receive “iPhone photography […]

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Science Reporting Needs More Skeptics

By on February 15, 2013 in Culture, Politics, Science
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Loren Collins is the author of Bullspotting: Finding Facts in the Age of Misinformation, published in October 2012.  Since 2009, Collins has blogged (intermittently) at Barackryphal, debunking birther rumors and conspiracy theories related to President Barack Obama. Loren is a practicing attorney in Atlanta, Georgia.   In late 2008, CNN cut its entire science and […]

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