Category: Media
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the blog
That might not be the first (or last) time I use that title, but it seems appropriate enough for the always entertaining discussion that ensues when journalists say things like “Any blog entry counts as journalism if the person posting it says it is, but journalism written by professionals cannot lose its special qualities and…
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There’s more than one way to skin a topless wiretapper story
(Ed. note: Sometimes it seems like the folks who criticize “traditional” journalism don’t actually, um, read the stories. So, in the interest of pointing out that there’s more than one way to write the news (he-said/she-said), here’s a pair of winners.) Reporting the public record First, there’s “The Nine Lives of a Topless Bar” from…
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Why news organizations might be afraid to blog
Terry Heaton: “I believe media companies are afraid of interacting with their audiences, because they (mistakenly) believe that their audiences are made up of people just like them — resentful, mean spirited, backbiting, hostile egomaniacs with inferiority complexes who, if given the opportunity, will spout their opinions without regard or respect for anyone but themselves.”
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Savannah 2.0
I remember Savannah as a gray place on a dreary day after Christmas in 1992, but then again, that’s what riding a Greyhound bus for 25 hours will get you: unlimited views of rundown downtowns. Advice to Greyhound: move your stations to shiny suburban malls. Here’s a far more colorful vision of Savannah: That’s the…
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How to get ahead in the newsroom
Steve Outing in E&P: “What seems to be becoming the norm in newsrooms these days is that a growing group of reporters, photographers and editors are now working in jobs where there’s a wide variety of tasks to be done each day: feeding the newspaper’s Web site; writing for blogs and interacting with blog readers;…
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Online and print partying together
via E&P: Editors from the Washington Post and USA Today talk about “the continuous news desk” and “platform-agnostic coverage” on a panel at an Interactive Media conference. One j-school professor in the audience asked what the panelists were looking for in young journalists — should they already be focusing on multi-tasking, shooting video and the…
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New Orleans hospital drama at Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There’s a huge 22-episode package running in print and online down at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution right now, and it takes the reader inside New Orleans hospitals during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. From the introduction to the piece: To report this story, staff writer Jane O. Hansen interviewed more than 50 people over six months,…
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My potential thesis has reared its bloggy head
Regular readers (both of you) might have noticed slow posting here lately, but really regular readers will recall that this happens at the end of every semester as I ramp up the whole term-paper-writing thing. This semester, I’m plugging away at what will become the literature review for my thesis. It’s all about blogging-at-newspapers. I’m…
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Student media under fire
I’ve got a guest column in today’s Spartan Daily that elaborates on the dangers of the Hosty v. Carter decision, what State Assemblyman Leland Yee wants to do about it, and why we’re actually pretty safe on public campuses in sunny California. Here’s an excerpt from the column: “College newspapers often boast that they are…
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Listen to Bob
A week ago I mentioned the talk that Bob Cauthorn gave last month in Berkeley. You can watch a webcast of that talk here, but I just finished listening to a talk he gave in 2005. Oh my. Bob knows what he’s talking about. Let’s just say: Bob answers, in this talk, all the questions…