Monthly Archives: November 2008

The Terminal, Japanese-Mexican style

    A story in Reforma on Nov. 15 is similar to Tom Hank´s movie “The Terminal” about an immigrant who finds himself stranded at JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there. The story in Reforma is about a … Continue reading

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Newsweek´s election project

http://www.newsweek.com/id/167582 It’s an extraordinary reporting endeavor – the inside story of the epic 2008 presidential campaign, featuring behind-the-scenes reporting gathered on the condition that Newsweek would print none of it until after election day.  Until now.  This special edition of … Continue reading

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The Daily Dish on Obama victory

From the Andrew Sullivan Blog Nothing in my life has actually changed in the 30 minutes since it was announced Obama will be our next president. I have the same bills, the same amount of money in the bank, my … Continue reading

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Twitter vote!

Any of you Twitterers? http://blog.twittervotereport.com/

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Election Liveblogging Chat

A friend of mine is doing this liveblogging You can follow it here: http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/elections/local/Liveblogging_Election_Night_2008.html What do you think?

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Election Day!

Today Americans go to the polls. Will you be watching? How will you be watching the results? On TV, online? This is how the journalism students at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism are covering the elections: http://www.columbiajournalist.org/elections/

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VOTE 2008

Tomorrow is the big day in the United States. PBS has a good link to election-related issues: http://www.pbs.org/vote2008/

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The Daily Beast

The dailybeast.com was launched in October. What ? Another news blog? Don’t we have enough of them already? But this blog is different, says the New York Times, because it is Tina Brown’s brainchild…the British born New York media maven … Continue reading

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Playing for change

A clip from film “Playing for Change” by filmmaker Mark Johnson. This remarkable film took 10 years to complete. Reactions?

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