Time is amnesic. We know there was a time without an Internet, but few can remember what that was like. There was a time when bank tellers weren’t automated and using a phone while driving required a really, really long extension cord. And of course, there was a time when most people got their newsContinue reading “Ugly America: From Borat to Al Jazeera”
Category Archives: News Media
Making Newspapers Matter: The “Age of Engagement”
When I went outside this morning I saw something I thought I would never see in my life – an empty driveway. No newspaper. I checked the bushes, nothing. I asked if someone had brought it in already, but no. I wondered if the delivery person forgot or was sick, but then I remembered. ItContinue reading “Making Newspapers Matter: The “Age of Engagement””
Some News about News
There’s been lots of media coverage about Reuters opening a bureau in Second Life to report within the popular virtual world. So, let me see if I’ve got this right: real world media is talking about real world media covering virtual news. This is either a strategic inflection point or completely insane. Reuters’ reporting inContinue reading “Some News about News”
Oh No in The O.C. – Newspaper Industry Woes Hit the Orange County Register
“I don’t feel safe. I don’t think anybody feels safe."– anonymous Orange County Register employee Orange County, Calif., is South Beach, Fla., without the humidity and tight Dolphin shorts. Nothing seems to affect this place, this celebration of mellowness and commerce, where surfers and CEOs co-exist and the horrors of the world stay safely outsideContinue reading “Oh No in The O.C. – Newspaper Industry Woes Hit the Orange County Register”
Keeping it Real with Greensboro News-Record Editor John Robinson
"Technology has given the power of the printing press and a television station to everyone. Everyone has the opportunity to publish news and opinion. That improves our journalism. It improves the world’s journalism." — John Robinson, Editor, Greensboro News-Record Blogging about journalism is nothing like doing journalism. Although it’s easy as a blogger to makeContinue reading “Keeping it Real with Greensboro News-Record Editor John Robinson”
News-Record Editor Gives Sound Advice to Prospective Hires
John Robinson, editor of the Greensboro (NC) News-Record, wrote an insightful piece on his blog about what he looks for in students coming out of journalism school. The only reason I got hired for my first newspaper job was because I went to the University of Missouri J-School (seriously, that’s what my boss told me),Continue reading “News-Record Editor Gives Sound Advice to Prospective Hires”
Real Journalism in a Virtual World: Interview with Second Life’s Metaverse Messenger Publisher Katt Kongo
“…Print is here to stay. People just need to find new ways to use it.” – Katt Kongo, Publisher, the Metaverse Messenger While real-world journalism struggles for new legitimacy and relevance, virtual world journalism is flourishing. I’m talking about real reporting, written by real reporters covering real stories and issues. After all, online communities areContinue reading “Real Journalism in a Virtual World: Interview with Second Life’s Metaverse Messenger Publisher Katt Kongo”
The Media and JonBenet: the Bottom Feels Fine When You Don’t Have Far to Fall
They don’t do original reporting. They don’t check facts, are loose with the truth and traffic in rumor. They have agendas. They just want attention. They’re not careful. They are not professionals. They sensationalize. There are too many of them. They cannot be trusted. This is how the majority of professional print and broadcast journalistsContinue reading “The Media and JonBenet: the Bottom Feels Fine When You Don’t Have Far to Fall”
8020 Publishing: Long Live the Printed Word
“Print is difficult. It’s cumbersome and expensive. Highly impractical. But it’s also archival, beautiful, and emotive. Print can be intimate in a way the web never can. Print is part of real life. It’s there with you in the cafe, the restaurant, the bathroom. You can lose yourself in a story in print more thanContinue reading “8020 Publishing: Long Live the Printed Word”
Newspapers: Where Words are Born, Not “Where Words Go to Die”
Author Seth Godin, in a post about how to be a successful non-fiction writer, said, “a non-fiction book is a souvenir, just a vessel for the ideas themselves. You don’t want the ideas to get stuck in the book… you want them to spread.” I thought about this statement as I stared at the pileContinue reading “Newspapers: Where Words are Born, Not “Where Words Go to Die””
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