Journalism Archives
September 11, 2008
■ “I’m just trying to envision the exchange between the reporter and his editors over at the Rocky Mountain News that led to their decision to live blog the funeral today of Marten Kudlis, the 3-year old boy killed at an ice cream store last week.” [#]
October 1, 2007
■ “Beneath the counter and its display of Lifesavers, Butterfingers, Dime Bars and Hershey’s chocolate was a naked shelf where the newspapers ought to be.” [#]
August 29, 2007
■ “The brainchild of a Dutch freelance journalist, reportwitter.com aims to “unpack” the process of constructing and creating a story by providing a platform for members to display recent articles alongside “tweets” - short, pithy, public messages of 140 characters or less - that are the lifeblood of the Twitter community.” [#]
August 20, 2007
■ “But sometimes, Ford is right. And therein lies this tale: what happens when gossip, roundly despised in Jewish law and tradition, turns out to be true and important? What is the difference between making gossip and breaking news? And how, in the brave new world of blogging, do we answer these questions?” [#]
August 16, 2007
■ ” ‘… the only way to get most people to read a newspaper is to literally force it into their hands.’ “ [#]
August 15, 2007
■ “After two years of documenting scenes of my life with my phone, here are some lessons I’ve learned for .” [#]
August 9, 2007
■ “The fundamental problem with today’s American press is a mismatch between its economic basis and its public function.” [#]
July 19, 2007
■ “There’s been a new development in the BBC parrot-telepathy story. Last year, the reference to telepathy was silently removed; but now the whole parrot has been airbrushed out of the journalistic record.” [#]
May 29, 2007
■ Buffy teaches us how to write a cliffhanger [#]
April 5, 2007
■ “I’m not totally down on the PR industry, but for many of us it’s of limited use …” [#]
March 14, 2007
■ “Despite good acting, a fascinating story and a great director, the reporters’ work spaces are way too tidy”. [#]
February 9, 2007
■ “John Burns, one of The New York Times’ most respected reporters and a longtime figure in the paper’s Iraq coverage, said he has mixed feelings about leaving the war-torn coverage to take over the paper’s London bureau later this year. But he says, even after he departs, the Times coverage should not and will not be reduced, despite ongoing budget difficulties.” [#]
■ “Sweden’s Post och Inrikes Tidningar, regarded as the world’s oldest newspaper though it had actually become a government bulletin, has suspended publication to become available only on the Internet.” [#]
January 24, 2007
■ Interestingly enough, that last link shows in a small way what the journalism business is dealing with. Being interested in German news, I read Spiegel fairly often, which is how I came across the story. Just a little while after I read it, a friend sent me this: basically the same story from the BBC. So, any newspaper wire editor looking to toss an interesting foreign story in Thursday’s paper now has to deal with the fact that the type of people who tend to be interested in the news might have already seen the story not just once, but twice. [#]
January 8, 2007
■ Why follow the news? | Ask MetaFilter: Interesting question and even more interesting answers. As a lifelong news junkie and professional reporter who is very concerned about the state of journalism, I think this question is one of the most important issues the news industry has to deal with. [#]
December 8, 2006
■ “Mainstream-media political journalism is in danger of becoming increasingly irrelevant, but not because of the Internet, or even Comedy Central. The threat comes from inside. It comes from journalists being afraid to do what journalists were put on this green earth to do. … Calling bullshit, of course, used to be central to journalism as well as to comedy.” [#]
December 6, 2006
■ “What is it that just you can do and that can’t be outsourced? When you’ve answered that question, then, finally, you’ve decided what your news organization is really all about.” [#]
December 1, 2006
■ The Times (of London) Online Picture Gallery traces the evolution of the newspaper’s masthead from its very beginning in 1785. Cool. [#]
November 21, 2006
■ Upcoming PBS Documentary Shows Importance of Journalists [#]
November 10, 2006
■ “Does it always happen in threes? Some say so when it comes to bad news. If you are Dean Baquet, Amanda Bennett or Debra Adams Simmons, this past week was truly a tough one as all three top editors lost their jobs.” Sigh. [#]
October 25, 2006
■ Metafilter, "magazine" of the future! What an odd little question. [#]
October 24, 2006
■ Reuters opens virtual news bureau in Second Life: This is nothing short of awesome. The thing is already staffed (and I, of course, love my current job), but this sounds like a dream job. [#]