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Journalism is becoming more influential

From The Hill, an interview with Jane Carmichael, Onion News Network's Washington correspondent. One benefit to a world hooked on oil and gas? Al Jazeera. WikiLeaks and Glenn Beck show that journalism is becoming more influential — but also more reductive. Is ideological innovation possible in online journalism? Jay Rosen on the politics of the new Huffington Post at AOL. Reboot camp: Aspiring and seasoned US journalists alike are looking to tech-savvy graduate schools to help them survive and thrive in a new multimedia environment. Yesterday’s Heroes: Can we rescue great photojournalism? Some rules for the road for 21st century journalism: An excerpt from Dan Gillmor's Mediactive. Former Guardian science editor, letters editor, arts editor and literary editor Tim Radford has condensed his journalistic experience into a handy set of rules for aspiring hacks. Newspaper journalism is on its way out, regrets the former foreign correspondent and Browser co-founder Robert Cottrell; he chooses four novels that reflect the golden days and a style guide that is an equally fine work of imagination. Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has never been a man to mince words, especially when it comes to what he insists is the future of journalism — cartoon news. If you edited an alt weekly, what would you do? Lisa Pease on what the media would look like if it were actually liberal. The Fact-Free Zone: Could making it easier to sue news organizations make them more honest?