This is a mirror post of an editorial I wrote for The Exception Magazine (here for post). I enjoyed writing this because it was written for readers instead of for other journalists. Journalists suddenly noticed their industry looks like all the other ones they write about on Wall Street. Newspapers, such as the Rocky Mountain ...
This one is a bit longer but very awesome. Specifically check out the area starting at 9 minutes. The video is of Nick Bilton, Design Integration Editor for The New York Times and the User Interface Specialist & Lead Researcher for The New York Times Research & Development Lab to the O’Reilly Tools of Change for ...
Journalists, such as those in the RevenueTwoPointZero conference, cling to news as it's been done. Their entire premise is about preserving what has already fallen. Journalism's fight can be likened to Terri Schiavo's case. The questions we ask:
Pew's annual report about journalism's prospects for 2009 is due out on Monday. According to an Associated Press story: "The state of journalism is bleak, but an annual study of the industry suggests all hope should not be lost." In other news, Pew has an interesting story about the changing face of the Washington press ...
In the past week a lot has been written about Jon Stewart's skewering of CNBC and the faux-populist Rick Santelli. In the midst of all the praise for what was truly a deserving comedic spanking of arguably the most-watched group of financial journalists on television, others are concluding that Stewart's eight-minute jab-fest was an example ...