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Culture shock

Trying to turn the tide of the decline of newspapers from the inside involves a great deal of evangelizing and pontificating and running through sets of common scenarios with folks who are still firmly planted in the Paper business rather … Continue reading

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Links that redefine news

Wednesday night, I’ll be speaking with Steve Sloan’s New Media class at San Jose State University. I’m planning to show off some of the best of your work. Yes, you. I’m looking for online news sites and projects that stray … Continue reading

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Introducing WiredJournalists.com

At the end of 2007, Howard Owens* published a blog post outlining a year-long program he called 2008 objectives for today’s non-wired journalist. A few of the objectives: Become a blogger. Start shooting your own pictures. Do the same with … Continue reading

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Imagination is everywhere

Scott Karp says part of the problem with the newspaper business has been its lack of imagination: “Nobody imagined that somebody would be so recklessly uncapitalistic as to create a website where people could post classified ads for free. Nobody … Continue reading

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