by Tim Windsor on October 10, 2008
Pat Thornton, who blogs as The Journalism Iconoclast, posted a fun thought-puzzle the other day: If you could jump into the time machine and go back ten years, what would you tell yourself in 1998 about journalism, and where it’s headed.
Here’s my list, which is in no way complete. What’s on yours?
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I love time machines. [...]
by Tim Windsor on October 7, 2008
Tina Brown’s new venture launched yesterday, making this an impossibly late-to-the-party comment in today’s feverish blog cycle, but I really like this about The Daily Beast:
It links. The Beast links, prominently.
That such a thing is noteworthy here at the tail end of 2008 is a sad commentary, but I’m going to be glass-half-full guy and [...]
by Tim Windsor on September 24, 2008
In a post that seems to have largely gone unnoticed, Rob Curley wrote a detailed summary last week of what goes into a typical day’s work at the innovative lasvegassun.com. The paper itself is just a few pages – with no ads – inserted into the competing Las Vegas Review-Journal. So the web site has [...]
by Tim Windsor on September 22, 2008
What’s the one thing that news organizations could do to increase their readership and, by extension, their bottom line?
Link out.
UPDATE: The Washington Post creates a new feature that’s all about linking out, called Political Browser. All they need now is an RSS feed.