Category: Media
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Wired is hiring tech business bloggers
If I were a young, fresh out of j-school, Bay Area journalist interested in technology and business, I’d be applying for this job at Wired in a big hurry. Heck, even if I were still in school, I’d probably write something up and send it in — or better yet, post it on my own…
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Catching up with the citizenry
I’ve been a bit lax in keeping up with the latest developments in what most of us are still calling ‘citizen journalism’ when we really want to say ‘civilian journalism’ to keep the amateurs and the professionals in distinct buckets. Too late. The pros and the amateurs are partying together, every time a newspaper editor…
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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 imagined that an online software company specializing in information retrieval, but which produced no information…
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Two obstacles to improving online newspapers
Scoble says newspapers are dead, Dave says we need to reform J-School, O’Reilly says the news business is in trouble, and Doc has 11 great suggestions. The following is intended to inform all the tech bloggers with advice for newspapers about some of the challenges faced by those of us trying to bring about change…
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The obvious end of journalism schools?
Dave Winer: “First, reform journalism school. It’s too late to be training new journalists in the classic mode. Instead, journalism should become a required course, one or two semesters for every graduate. Why? Because journalism like everything else that used to be centralized is in the process of being distributed. In the future, every educated…
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Hyperlocal doesn’t mean being obsessive about every breath your city council takes
What I want from my local newspaper (and how I want it): Little League (text messages), church carnivals (database), downtown characters (multimedia), car washes (video), profiles of people who cook my food and wash my vegetables (multimedia), neighborhood business owners (podcast), garage sales (map), changes in local and state laws (database), local school activities (calendar),…
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Your readers don’t know everything, but don’t you go telling them that
When your newspaper is the news, suddenly you’re thrust into the role of the person, the business, or the organization that gets a story published about them in the paper.
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Building a multimedia package from the ground up in Oakland
Sean Connelley and Katy Newton, two of the journalists behind the Oakland Tribune’s Not Just A Number package I wrote about yesterday, were kind enough to take a few minutes of their time today to answer a few questions by e-mail.
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The only words I’m going to write about the San Jose Mercury News redesign
Sorry, no big analysis on this one, no pronouncements about what a newspaper site in Silicon Valley should be, no pleasantries to throw up against the wall or criticism to shell out.