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InSites for the Future: 2012 Will Set A New Standard for Green/Sustainable Events

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This weekend people around the world will gather to celebrate one of the biggest events of the year, New Year’s Eve. To wrap up our InSites for the Future series, Vanguard’s event manager Scott LaLonde looks at the future of event planning.

2012 Will Set A New Standard for Green/Sustainable Events

Source: Convention Industry Council

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Living Page One

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I knew very little about Andrew Rossi’s documentary Page One: Inside the New York Times when I sat down in an E Street Cinema theater to see it with a group of my colleagues.  But I quickly discovered that Page One gives an unprecedented look at the inner workings of the Times’ legendary newsroom at a time in which the newspaper [...]

Nevermind Page One, could they update the masthead on page two?

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Unlike the mythical “shot heard ‘round the world,” which began the American Revolution, the news revolution began quietly with a little thing called the Internet. The Internet has completely changed the way we consume news—and I do mean consume. We read, comment, Digg, tweet, retweet, retreat, or re-think based on what our friends have [...]

Can WikiLeaks Save Investigative Reporting?

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There’s a very compelling scene in the film “Page One,” where Brian Stelter is chasing a story on WikiLeaks and its impact on journalism. Stelter calls WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for comment on their latest leak, a video of a U.S. air attack in Baghdad. The conversation that ensues reveals a great deal about [...]

Web-Literate Abramson Offers NY Times More Than A Broken Glass Ceiling

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Many stories about Jill Abramson’s historic appointment as the executive editor of the New York Times have focused on her gender. However, Abramson has another quality that may prove to be even more important and critical to the success of the Times: Web savvy.

Photo courtesy of ReservasdeCoches.com on Flickr

Now that the Times has launched [...]