Category: Media
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On the deaths of two photojournalists in Libya
“Chris and Tim are at sea now, heading toward Benghazi, which means, in the indirect but solemn ways that the fallen travel from battlefields, that they are heading home.” via THE GUN by C.J. Chivers. ### As for me, I don’t have a lot of grief in me for this, just anger. Undirected, unfocused anger.…
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Hardly strictly the oldest person in the room
I’m genuinely excited to be on the short list of attendees at the round table Dave Cohn has been putting together at the University of Missouri’s Reynolds Journalism Institute later this month: Hardly Strictly Young. Those of you who read this blog regularly (ahem, both of you) have probably spotted a monthly Carnival of Journalism…
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Carnival of Journalism: An open email to Michael Maness, because no one writes letters anymore
This post is but one burning twig in the roaring campfire that is the rekindled Carnival of Journalism. This month’s two options both provide the carnibloggers an opportunity to give advice to organizations with a mandate to give away money and other resources for the sake of improving journalism. I’ve chosen the option that involves…
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The other young gentleman in the sweatshirt running a social network is Moot
Striking, isn’t it, how Moot appears to be some sort of anti-matter to Mark Zuckerberg’s matter? How Facebook and 4chan can simultaneously be ubiquitous, but you’re much more likely to admit to an account on one than the other? In the throes of my constant and ongoing research and curiosity about comments and commenting systems,…
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How to turn every reader’s mobile phone into a newsroom of one
On the occasion of the second stop on the Carnival of Journalism revival tour, we’re provided with a wide open question: Considering your unique circumstances what steps can be taken to increase the number of news sources? So without much further ado, we’re going to have a little “NOW IT CAN BE TOLD” moment here…
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About that graphic comparing the Trenta to the stomach…
Charles Apple points to an explanation from Canada’s National Post, getting at the details of how the illustration you’ve clearly already seen — the one comparing Starbucks cup sizes to the average human stomach — from which we learn a bit about the convoluted nature of news today. To summarize the sequence: Reuters moves a…
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Customer service, community management, and comment threads
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably been on one side (or quite possibly the other) of an exchange that goes something like this: PERSON AT NEWSPAPER WITH WEB-RELATED JOB: Sentinel, this is Ryan, how can I help you? USER: Your website’s all wrong. PANWWRJ: Really? What’s wrong? USER: You don’t use XMLT 4.1. It’s still…
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Looking forward to ONA10
As I write this over breakfast, deep in the suburbs of our nation’s capital, ONA10 is already getting started, bleary-eyed workshop participants wandering the hotel halls in search of coffee, out-of-state attendees drifting through airports and trains and cabs and… OK, I’m probably romanticizing this way out of proportion, but the honest truth is that…