Archive for the ‘Issues’ Category
Monday, May 19th, 2008
The Society of Professional Journalists honored the top college journalists with its Mark of Excellence Awards on May 19.
“I encourage media executives who are looking for the next wave of high-quality journalists to pay attention to the winners of SPJ’s Mark of Excellence Awards.” said Neil Ralston, SPJ’s Vice President ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
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It's a lovely Saturday afternoon, the perfect type of day for browsing my RSS feeds.
That joy was short-lived, though, as I started reading Who Will Tell Us, an op-ed piece in the Columbia Journalism Review decrying the state of traditional journalism. Ironically, the very editorial itself is the ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
I've been talking business model a lot lately. More than I'd like to since I'm trying to focus my thinking on solutions to the newsroom and not solutions to the publisher's room.
Unfortunately, those two are long past being separated. So let's just do this a little more.
I constantly here from ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
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Jeff Jarvis has written a post about news organizations moving away from thinking of themselves as destinations (or I might say the gatekeepers of information) and towards a more "distributed strategy for news," which he lays out as this:
Widgets that enable people to embed your news (and links ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
We've been having a little discussion at The Modern Journalist NING social network pitting the database reporting I've proposed in Newspaper 2.0 versus traditional, beat-the-bushes reporting done by the Ameican media.
Of course, I am a part of the American media -- or I was -- for 14 years before I ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
We've been having a discussion about crime and reporting at The Modern Journalist NING social network, which got me thinking about the best ways to cover this in a modern newspaper.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, my hometown paper, has a cluster of information smashed on a map at the Cincy Navigator, an ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
I've spent the past few days offline, more or less, and I can say that I've enjoyed my time away from the constant stream of emails, Tweets, text messages and comments.
There were moments I felt disconnected, but I never really felt like I was missing out on anything because I ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Here is a really insightful piece about how newspapers should handle reader comments and discussion boards -- particularly for sensitive stories.
It's not a piece that comes with any answers, but it certainly brings up mainly salient points: how do you deal with comments when a child has been killed, how ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
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A new study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 93 percent of teenagers write for their own pleasure, but fail to connect the relationship between communication writing (anything done electronically) with the more formal structure of writing.
The 83-page report is filled with startling insights:
teenagers ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
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I've been asked to speak at several events in the last year, discussing how technology is reshaping the media landscape.
One recurring meme in my talks is this: social media has changed the expectations of many people in terms of media, and if news organizations don't adopt ...
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