In Editor & Publisher’s remarkable story, “Letter Reveals Reason for Firing of Vermont AP Chief,” the news cooperative’s explanation doesn’t begin to pass the smell test. The story says Christopher Graff “was terminated for distributing a column by Sen. Patrick Leahy that promoted open public records, according to his termination letter obtained by E&P today. […]
Posts from ‘May, 2006’
Professional Journalists' Most Serious Competitive Issue
It’s not the competition from bloggers and citizen journalists, as I note in my new BBC column, “The changing mix of money and media,” but rather the way Internet companies are taking away the base of revenue that pays for the journalism.
It's Everyone's Media, and It's Global
At the We Media conference in London after two amazing days in Berlin (more below), there are more people wearing ties in this room than at a similar event in New York last year. There are plenty of people blogging this gathering, so I won’t. In Berlin I worked with 15 journalists from the developing […]
Details of Bay Area Newspaper Deal Raise More Questions
Over on my Bay Area blog, I raise more questions about wheeling and dealing in the regional newspaper market.
On the Road
I’m heading to Berlin to the International Institute for Journalism, a project that helps train journalists from around the world, mostly developing nations. I’ll be doing a series of lectures and workshops about blogging and citizen journalism over two days, and am planning to have the students (most of whom are already professional journalists) create […]