Posts from ‘October, 2006’

If you’re a blogger or other citizen media creator and plan to cover happenings on Election Day, you may be wondering about some of the legal situations you may encounter. Ask your questions at the question page for an upcoming Election Day Bloggers’ Legal Guide, and Stanford University Law students will work on getting the […]

Our students at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism and the School of Information have done an amazing job pulling together the beta version of VoteGuide: your interactive community participation portal to the (California) 11th Congressional district race. This non-partisan site looks at the issues and information about the candidates with help […]

USA Today: Pundit Armstrong Williams settles case over promoting education reforms. Armstrong Williams says the $34,000 he will repay to the U.S. government is a small price to pay to put a 2-year-old punditry scandal behind him. Is he joking? This isn’t behind him. Armstrong Williams will always be known as a classic opinion launderer. […]

Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post says “Tightened Belts Could Put Press In a Pinch“: Real investigative reporting, as opposed to the what-happened-yesterday stuff, is time-consuming, risky and expensive. And as one news organization after another sheds staff in this tough financial climate, it’s worth considering what aggressive journalism has produced lately. Yes, worth considering. […]

The ombudsman of the New York Times, in his current column, decides somewhat incoherently, that the paper was wrong to blow the whistle on a semi-secret government spying program targeting, among others, U.S. citizens. If the job of the press isn’t to tell us when such things are going on, then the press has no […]

At the Providence Journal, where a systems glitch made for big problems, Sheila Lennon volunteered: to stay home and take emails from reporters and editors. I would publish The Providence Journal’s breaking news on the Web by myself all day from our home den, barefoot. I would email headlines, permalinks and timestamps back to the […]

ASAP Originally uploaded by lisa.williams. Derrick Lang, author of The Slug, part of ASAP, an AP initiative to experiment and multimedia and appeal to younger readers: “This banner up here, I made that in Photoshop; these graphics on the side, I taught myself how to do that in TypePad; I had to teach myself how […]

Tom Evslin’s graceful retraction of something he wrote recently helps us understand the changing media scene. Let’s unpack what happened. In a posting entitled “Networked Citizen Journalists at Work” (including himself), he discussed the way folks peered into a small telecom company’s apparent business model. What prompted them? An item in David Pogue’s New York […]

At an Internet conference in Hungary during the past (too brief) several days, I met several people who would be standouts in any culture. Their intelligence and curiosity about the world reminded me of something my brother, Wiley, and I have talked about from time to time: Call it the Hungarian Greatness Quotient, perhaps. Here’s […]

UPDATED Tom Evslin discusses the operations of some “Networked Citizen Journalists at Work” (including himself) as they peered into a small telecom company’s apparent business model. What prompted them? An item in David Pogue’s New York Times tech blog, which left some obvious unanswered questions. Tom writes: What’s interesting is that the business model left […]