Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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I was speaking with Joe, a former Cincinnati Post writer working to launch a local news organization called CinDaily, about what a modern newspaper should look like.
Our discussions are good for him, I think, but I know they are good for me. They help me start to outline ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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The Zogby International polling group surveyed newspaper editors and found that most editors believe the newspaper of the future will have three features:
they will be free
they will have more opinion
they will include more comments
The report goes on to say that 30 percent of those editors survey wanted to ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
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Rick Edmonds has a post at Poynter discussing the decline of print readers and the slow adoption of online readers at newspapers.
The contention is that online will not grow enough for some time -- maybe ten years -- to replace the readership that has left. There are some ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
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All the blog research says that you're headlines should be of a positive nature to attract readers. I don't always do that. I'm doing it right now.
::Props::
I've been scanning The Wired Journalist site, a place where journalists can congregate to discuss what's going on at the papers -- ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
The Modern Journalist reader TJ, webmaster for WWJ 950 in Detroit, instant messaged me a story about the top eight Ohio newspapers sharing content with each other.
It seems the top papers, which are spread geographically far enough that there is little competition between them, have set up an Intranet ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
I'm reading Mark Glaser's recap of my alma mater's latest journalism conference, Crisis in News.
Now, I'm not going to bag on Glaser or my school because frankly, I don't know Glaser and I paid a boatload of money to go to Cal-Berkeley. However, I am going take issue with the ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Research for a book means reading lots of other books, finding out what discussions other experts in your field are having and parsing out the salient points they miss.
For all intents and purposes, this is social media for authors. Those of us who still love the written word and long ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
I've paid scant attention to the Newseum, a $450 million monstrosity that chronicles the history of journalism in the country -- at least so far as we're told.Newsweek has an insightful piece about the decision to build this during a time when 15,000 jobs have been eliminated in the past ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
I've been off for a few days, traveling to San Francisco for the book. While I was there, I had the opportunity to meet with Howard Rheingold, who is currently lecturing on technology and journalism at both Stanford and Berkeley. We had a rather illuminating talk.
He's working on a project ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The wonderful folks at Ars get a double-dip today. My friend Chris forwarded me this response to Eric Alterman's piece in the New Yorker (which I discussed earlier.)
The response comes in reference to Alterman's view that while social media allows for greater communication, first-rate journalism is -- or will -- ...
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