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• Pliny the Younger is never listed as a journalist, but he should be. This extraordinary Roman (he lived from 61 to about 113 A.D.) was a lawyer, politician, author, poet, and government official whose stated goal was to be famous and to be remembered. He was, indeed, all of those things.

  J Stovall

  

  Pliny the Younger: a top-notch Roman journalist, Part 1: An insight into the early Christian community – JPROF.com

  jprof.com

  Pliny the Younger is never listed as a journalist, but he should be. This extraordinary Roman (he lived from 61 to about 113 A.D.) was a lawyer, …

• J Stovall

  

  The passing of writer Ursula K. Le Guin sparks an important reconsideration of her work – JPROF.com

  jprof.com

  Ursula Le Guin wrote extraordinary stories about extraordinary topics. She is pigeon-holed as a science fiction or fantasy writer, and that she was. …

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  Benjamin Bates

  

  Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism 2017

  Nieman Lab - Nieman Journalism Lab

  Walter Lippmann House One Francis Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 617 495 2237 The Nieman Journalism Lab is a collaborative attempt to figure out how quality journalism can survive and thrive in the Internet age.

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  Benjamin Bates

  

  Why is the UK's mobile phone coverage so bad?

  The Guardian - Jasper Jackson

  A report this week ranked Britain’s 4G service behind Romania and Peru. It’s not quite as simple as that, but patchy signal is still a problem in plenty of the country Is the UK’s 4G mobile phone coverage really worse than Romania, Albania and Peru, as a report suggested last week? Yes and no. The …

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  Benjamin Bates

  

  Germany threatens to fine Facebook €500,000 for each fake news post

  Quartz - Mike Murphy

  Earlier this week, Facebook said that it would be partnering with fact-checking sites like Snopes to help weed out the fake news that has been plaguing the site in recent years. But it seems that Germany is not confident that self-regulation will be enough. The chairman of Germany’s Social …

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  Benjamin Bates

  

  Magazine Newsstand Sales Fall Again

  mediapost.com - Erik Sass

  This year is proving to be another bruiser for print magazine newsstand sales, with both dollar figures and unit sales continuing to decline, …