Category: Technology
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Katie, Katie, Katie: Why the anchor is still important
A handful of New Media pundits have been questioning the wisdom CBS had in hiring Katie Couric away from the Today Show to plant her in the anchor’s chair on the evening news. Granted, CBS is spending gobs of money they could be putting into other projects, but think about this: With more unbundled media…
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Your paperboy called. He says he’s made of fiberoptic cable. And your micropayment is late.
Here’s why the “but-I-like-inky-fingers” crowd should relax: After most news organizations get their online operations in full swing, but before newsprint goes completely extinct, e-paper will emerge as the daily medium for information. This is old news, but with all the hand-wringing over what to do about a business model for the new newspaper, I…
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‘Lifelong newspaper junkie’ gives up print edition, lives to tell
Brian Hieggelke writes in alt weekly Newcity Chicago about giving up his print subscriptions for one month. “Newspaper reading is a ritual for me. I wake up, make coffee, get the paper and hit my chair. In earlier years, I’d get agitated if someone messed with my papers, out of fear that I might miss…
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Looking for jobs in all the right places
Every j-school student knows about sites like Journalism Jobs and Craig’s List, but have you ever searched for gigs on Simply Hired, Beyond, or PageBites? Luckily, you don’t have to. Instead, try using the gada.be search engine. Go to gada.be, enter what you’re looking for in the search box, and click on “Jobs.” Here’s a…
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The Guardian gets it
I’m passing along, thanks to Jeff Jarvis, this speech (mp3) by Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian newspaper in England. It’s about the future present of newspapers in the Internet age, or the blog years, or the time-of-the-great-podding, or the “it’s Craig’s fault” days. Whatever you want to call it, it’s worth a listen or…
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Colorado college newspaper invites campus bloggers into the fold
The University of Colorado’s student newspaper is about to launch student, faculty, and staff blogs hosted by the paper’s Web site. We talked about doing this here at the Daily, but we have a hard time convincing each other that anyone would use a blog here, as opposed to, say, MySpace. There’s a point where…
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Vendor sports, SJSU style
I’ve now written stories for the Spartan Daily about Microsoft, Google, and Apple. Is Yahoo next? Thankfully, no. But I’ll keep an eye out, so I can hit the superfecta. For the record, every single student who has talked to me about the iTunes U story has said something to the effect of “So we…
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Knight Ridder sold
The New York Times and others are reporting that Knight Ridder has sold to McClatchy. Just a note from my Internet-focused brain: Every article I read that says something like “with the future of print newspapers in question” or “with declining print circulation” grossly overlooks the fact that Knight Ridder Digital, the online section of…
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Look Ma, I got my pictures in the paper
So there was this ice storm, right? Well, sleet, slush, whatever you want to call it. I had just finished class, saw it starting, changed the dead batteries in the point-and-shoot, and starting fooling around. By the time I was done shooting useless video with my little ugly camera, one of our editors had spotted…