When I started this blog, in my first week as a Mass Communications graduate student at San Jose State, it was called “Big Silver Robot,” it was hosted at Blogspot, and it was anonymous. That lasted for about a month.
Pretty quickly, I signed up for a free WordPress instance at Blogsome, where I enjoyed a [...]
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February 1, 2010
There is no newspapers
August 28, 2009
I’ve been saying those words in person to people a lot lately:
“There is no newspapers.”
What’s it mean?
It means that if you’re in the business of publishing pronouncements, predictions, prayers, analysis, criticism, or full on takedowns related to the current state of the newspaper industry, please understand that despite the convenience it would provide for said [...]
I may never blog again…
August 6, 2009
…because I’m having so much fun with the Publish2 WordPress plugin…
A roundup of things I found interesting so far this week:
Obama And Helen Thomas Celebrate Their Birthdays
UpTakeVideo | August 6, 2009
Can’t believe she didn’t get a question in about health care reform while she had him there.
Coca-Cola vs. Pepsi, Revised Edition
Brand New | August 5, [...]
On IdeaLab: Reporter-turned-blogger covers the island of Alameda
March 19, 2009
Over at the PBS IdeaLab blog, I interviewed Michele Ellson, editor and publisher at The Island, a local news site devoted to covering the city of Alameda, which sits to the west of Oakland in San Francisco Bay. (Yes, it’s an island.)
Michele left newspapers in 2007 and launched The Island in early 2008, continuing a [...]
SPJ’s News Gems blog to close?
December 31, 2008
Jon Marshall’s News Gems blog at SPJ.org has been a quiet, consistent resource, chronicling high-quality reporting for more than three years.
Marshall is moving on to other endeavors:
“As we reach the end of 2008, I wish I could say that things have gotten easier for journalists. Of course they haven’t. But after producing this blog for [...]