Tim Windsor, online
From the monthly archives:
My name is Gina Chen. I’ve been a newspaper journalist for 20 years, and I’m worried — but excited — about the future of the industry I love.
Gina Chen is really no different than the thousands of journalists in newsrooms around the country, trying to make sense of where the news business is heading. Except [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
So here’s how these things go. You write 85+ posts over the course of a handful of months. Some of them are are considered, thoughtful pieces, many with even a modicum of original reporting. Others are appreciative notes and links to discussions elsewhere.
A few are smartassed screeds, one of which takes apart some recent (I’ll [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
The zombie lives, this time in an op-ed in the WSJ from the Newark Star-Ledger’s Paul Mulshine, who conflates the shout of “Copy!” and the pounding of six-part carbons with some golden age of “real” journalism that the modern internetses are killing:
When my colleague at the Newark Star-Ledger John Farmer started off in journalism more [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
I thought the Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun made a brilliant move today, announcing that, beginning on January 1, the two newsrooms would start sharing news and sports coverage. The stated goal is to eliminate overlap and to create efficiencies. The real goal is to forge ahead boldly to help save the business.
But then [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Designer Jason Santa Maria takes a look at the current state of print publishing and decides:
Print just might be in its death throes
This is not necessarily a bad thing.
Here’s his conclusion:
The medium of print will not die, but its spot atop the mountain of mainstream content distribution is in its final days. This could bring [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
I need to create a new TextExpander macro that simply says Martin Langeveld has a great post…” God knows I type that enough.
The latest is actually a 1-2 punch, presenting practical advice for the sales team and the newsroom at newspaper companies.
He gets off to a very good start:
1. Lead with the DotCom brand. [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Chris Brogan, the well-known social media strategist and evangelist has a post today about what some of us would call journalistic ethics.
On December 2, Chris wrote a sponsored post on his Dad-o-Matic blog about K-Mart. K-Mart gave him a $500 gift card to go on a shopping spree and write about it. He took his [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
I’ve been passing around an odd little YouTube clip of a 2005 Christmas gift from Sam Zell. It shows an animated statue that features a recording of Sam extolling the virtures of an economy that’s throwing off cheap cash left and right, And then, there’s a song:
“We’re awash with cash to spend!”
It would just be [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
Martin Langeveld reports on a conference focused on the notion of an “InfoValet.” It sounds like attendees at the conference spent a lot of time thinking of ways to describe what they’re onto, but I’d put it this way, from a consumer perspective:
A universal logon system whereby users “pay” for access to information with (secure) [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
It was just shy of one year ago today when Mark Potts swam against the Zellebratory news of the sale of Tribune, in a post entitled “Here Come The Death Eaters,” in which he typed these words:
Put that all together, and 2008 may be the year that the Death Eaters start coming for some of [...]
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
