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Media Nation by Dan Kennedy | Apr. 11, 2009 (Review)

(Blog Post) Even as we lament the ongoing collapse of the newspaper business as we've known it, there are reasons to be optimistic about the survival of journalism. I thought I would take a look at how three Boston-area online news sources — Global Voices Online, GlobalPost and the Christian Science Monitor — are covering the anti-communist protests in Moldova. Full Story »

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by Derek Hawkins - Apr. 11, 2009

An interesting meditation on how well three Boston-based experiments in media are covering the protests in Moldova.

All in all, an impressive performance. If you start with the Monitor, then check out Global Voices and GlobalPost, you’ll come away pretty well-informed about a remote corner of Europe.

Disclosure: Derek is involved in this story as a friend (review not included in overall rating).