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 ...
My brain is absolutely dead right now. I've been asked to be on another panel but I really just want to take a nap. So I leave you with this: a pivotal scene in the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that absolutely relates to what we are supposed to do with the ...
Just saw this video on the New York Times and thought it was a very interesting, and well-done, example of how video can enhance news Web sites – especially their opinion sections. It’s about budget cuts in New York and how the city could save millions if it would just turn off the lights at ...
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 ...
In approaching the budget crisis faced by the Nevada System of Higher Education, staffers at my paper were thinking of ways to get user feedback. Initially we wanted to do a video/podcast asking people “How would you fix the budget?” This seems like a useless question as most students don’t have the necessary information to ...
So this took me eight books, 20 pages, nine months and hundreds of e-mails, but I think I just figured out the most simplistic and practical and unacademic way to synthesize a small portion of social-networked news. They’ve figured out “oh, forums, those are cool” but not how to use them. It’s in a dialogue ...
I’m glad for the moment of relief. You are thinking smartly. But, for the larger universe, do you really think print products are going to disappear? I imagine a place for a newspaper/magazine print product where design could be even more important. My work in Kings Beach just keeps reinforcing how little contact some people ...
“But however much the changes, it won’t be presenting its reconfigured self as the newspaper of the future. The newspaper business has pretty well conceded that its future is online, which means the print is deciding how to dress smartly for its funeral.” I feel so much better. I feel like I’ve been turning my ...