A new standard may have been set when it comes to the time it takes to implement an innovative idea in the online journalism world.
Scott Karp has a post, The Pace of Innovation in Journalism, at Publishing 2.0 that argues that time is now 48 hours.
On the web, with cost of technology so low (or, [...]
A little while ago I wrote a post about the perfect newsroom. Here is more on that topic. I came across a video of one college and how they built their newsroom.
The video showcases Stony Brook University’s newsroom full of 30 Apple computer workstations, maps, flat screen monitors and an assortment of various other ‘cool’ [...]
It turns out there is a blog about newspapers using the Drupal content management platform. I’d really like to do a project on the platform and I am wondering if anyone out there has any advice on that to get me started.
On that same topic, Steve Yelvington wrote a post about a guy in Belgium [...]
Billionaire and Tribune Co. owner Sam Zell is just phenomenal. If you haven’t seen the video of him telling a photographer at the Orlando Sentinel to fuck off, you gotta watch it.
The exchange, posted at Gawker, happened after the journalist questioned Zell about his feeling that the industry needs to look more at what readers [...]
Why is it that I seem to get more accomplished sitting in a coffee shop with my laptop than I do sitting at my desk in the newsroom? I don’t know how many people feel the same, but I have a hunch there are a few.
If you haven’t yet heard of The Next Newsroom Project [...]
Newsrooms can’t be everything to everybody, but we can be everywhere.
That is a hard concept to accept for most traditional journalist. The industry is used to pushing information in one direction and holding it close until that point comes.
But if we don’t begin to embrace the need to unbundle content and be on Flickr, YouTube, [...]