Tag: news organization
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This year’s big “duh”
Last year, the big “duh” was the raging irrational debate over whether blogs were journalism. Answer? If you write journalism, it’s journalism. If you record journalism, it’s journalism. Doesn’t matter what medium you choose to display it in, doesn’t matter if you’re the San Jose Mercury News or Grade the News or Rocketboom — it’s…
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Listen to your readers
Last night at SJSU’s King Library, former Knight Ridder chief news executive Jerry Ceppos made a few points that brought together a few things I’ve been rambling on about lately: Newspapers need to jump into the online world with both feet. Take the governor off the engine and start devoting a larger percentage of your…
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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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Blue Plate Special: Editor Blogs
Over at the Blue Plate Special, which still has that “new blog” smell, Jay Rosen and some of his students are breaking down the details on newspapers that blog. Here’s a great post on John Robinson, editor of the blog-happy Greensboro News & Record in North Carolina. Briana Mowrey, a grad student in NYU’s j-school,…
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The editors are blogging – and they have opinions. Should they?
The Santa Cruz Sentinel is running a pair of blogs. (Full disclosure: I live in Santa Cruz, and rarely purchase a print edition of any of the three papers I can easily find at the corner store.) One of the blogs is an “Editors’ Notebook” written by Editor Tom Honig and Managing Editor Don Miller.…