Since I got my planner I’ve found it useful to list things out in order to cross them off and feel accomplished. I can chalk up my recent 3.5 semester GPA to the planner. I thought it might be a fun (though slightly depressing) exercise to list off things that we want to do/need to ...
Here are my questions: Is the division between mass media and niche media a useful dichotomy? Is national v. local media? Or geographic communities vs. communities of interest? Or are there alternative models for analyzing the evolution of our media/journalism systems? On one hand, Amy Gahran questions why the Knight Foundation focuses on geographically defined ...
The Las Vegas Sun print newspaper has 25 editorial employees and its accompanying Web site, lasvegassun.com, has 45. The paper focuses on the how and why of stories. It doesn’t cover breaking news, sports or stories unrelated to Vegas. It reads like a daily news magazine. Lasvegassun.com, on the other hand, aggressively covers breaking news, ...
This somehow managed to be pertinent to journalism: The fallacy that I currently find entertaining is the belief that multimedia – more specifically video – will save journalism. There are many journalists I encountered at the Indianapolis Star who were worried online video would replace print journalism. I told them if radio and TV ...
I have a lot of feeling about Metromix, mostly negative, but I thought this was an interesting conversation with The Nevada Sagebrush Editor-in-chief Nick Coltrain: Me: It’s a bad city guide that doesn’t target anyone. A national city guide truly does not have its audience in mind. That in and of itself, is bad journalism. ...
The idea of selling news via micropayments was really big in the late nineties but has since faded. iTunes has resurrected the conversation somewhat; I think it has great merit. One example an early proponent shared once was this: Imagine that whenever you went to the grocery store, the clerk came outside and handed you ...
These are the questions I’d like to see a judge answer, this could be interesting if the charges don’t get dropped. I also dig the counter suit the editor is making. That the lawyer owes him money. I would suspect the editor is right. In response to your news as commodity, news as need question. ...
I think people charge for lots of public services — Internet service, water, buses, bridges, national parks, wheelchairs, cleaner cars — so I don’t see an ethical problem with charging a reasonable and fair price. How much is journalism worth? One way to answer that question is to look at the market: Information about sex, ...