A new We Media/Zogby Interactive poll should be another one of those wake-up calls for us in American journalism.
The good news: Americans believe journalism is important. The bad news: They don’t like or trust the journalism in their communities.
While the news appears to be split, it offers a tremendous possibility in what I, and others [...]
Ryan Sholin says the future may not be bright for newspapers but the future for news and information has never looked brighter.
OK, so maybe I paraphrased a bit, but a recent post of his hit me this morning.
He argues, I believe, that news and information is being consumed so much that its future is already [...]
Yesterday I wrote about a couple of others in the industry questioning whether media companies are taking the web seriously and focusing on the right things and promised to not be completely negative and actually provide some potential solutions.
In the course of thinking about solutions I came across some interesting things out there on the [...]
It seems every other day I have to stop and ask myself this question: Am I focusing on the right things? I had another one of those this morning reading a post by Mark Potts.
Potts points to a post by Douglas McLennan about why newspapers need to take the web more seriously.
Potts says this post [...]
So last week turned out to be very good for me and my news organization. After several months of negotiating a position for a full-time video journalist was approved and an offer was made. I’m really excited and can’t wait to get started.
Another good thing is that I have the ability to put together a [...]
I think Alan Mutter, in his recent and talked about post that poses the question of whether newspapers can afford the luxury of so many editors as newsrooms face shrinking budgets, misses the point and a great opportunity.
“How many people have to read a story before it goes in the paper?” asked a senior editor [...]
I forwarded this blog post by Howard Owens to the newsroom I work in called “Ten things journalist can do to reinvent journalism” and I hope to get some feedback on it internally. If so, I’ll post them here in a day or so.
I didn’t include much about what it says because I can’t say [...]
Here is a short quiz for all the journalists out there and it isn’t meant to be a negative thing, but honestly gauge yourself. Where do you best fit between these two options?
1) The internet is an extension to do research, look at news and find sources and that is about it.
2) The internet is [...]
I can’t resist writing about this. Recently I have been checking out the web site of this company, Hornall Anderson.
A blog post on the company’s web site by Laura Jakobsen just hit me today. This company hires people who definitely “get it.”
Jakobsen writes about the infamous wedding dance video where a couple dances to a [...]
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I disagree with the concept. It’s just the word I don’t like. Hyperlocal is just local isn’t it?
Mark Potts has what I think should be a wakeup-call kind of post asking the simple question: What is your hyperlocal strategy.
Now, as I just stated, I would rephrase the question, [...]