Mark Glaser (PBS MediaShift): Traditional Journalism Job Cuts Countered by Digital Additions. If you follow the world of traditional journalism, you can’t help but notice the seemingly constant stream of layoffs and buyouts at news organizations. But media observers don’t often emphasize the flip side: As newspapers and broadcasters slice their senior-level workforce, they are […]
Posts from ‘August, 2007’
Neglecting to Mention That Other Mortgage-Meltdown Villain
Howard Kurtz, in his Washington Post “Media Notes Extra,” has an appropriate caution for journalists: Memo to the media: Everyone who is defaulting on a home mortgage is not necessarily a victim. He points out that people who took huge risks were reckless, and goes on to note that there’s “plenty of blame to go […]
Broad Brushes on Big Canvasses
Danny Glover (National Journal): Gross Generalizations About Old And New Media. It’s just plain wrong to demean an entire segment of the media, whether old or new, based on the flaws of a few practioners within it. The modern media world would be a far better place if the converging interests would crank the cynicism […]
Conversation on Thursday Evening About Social News Sites
I’m among the speakers this Thursday evening in a conversation is about “evolution and growing influence” of social news sites. Others on the program include Karen Brophy, Yahoo News; Amy Dalton, Topix.com; Steve Huffman, Reddit.com; and Jay Adelson, Digg.com. It’s open to the public (no cost) at the Yahoo mother ship in Sunnyvale, from 6:30 […]
Sleuthing the Many (Logo) Lives of the Cheney Video
Jon Garfunkel has done prodigious homework on how a variety of online video posters used (and abused) the attribution principle in “Internet Slash-Ups: Even the pros rip off C-SPAN.
Doc Searls' New Blog
Everyone should point to the Doc Searls Weblog in its new location, to give it the link-love it needs to rise in the search engines.
Michael Moore Should Be Ashamed
Jonathan Weber at New West Network asks, “Michael Moore, Why Are You Stealing Our Content?” Pretty shabby…
An Astonishing Admission by a Journalism Professor
UPDATED Please read “Annals of Reporting” from today’s Talking Points Memo, in which Josh Marshall describes what looks like a classic example of journalistic malpractice. Here’s the gist. Michael Skube, a former newspaper editor and Pulitzer Prize winner who’s now a journalism professor, wrote an opinion piece for the LA Times in which he flays […]
In London, PhD Candidate Needed for Major CJ Project
City University in London is offering a full-time “Sky News – City University Studentship in Citizen Media / User-Generated Content” to explore concepts around citizen journalism in the mainstream news media, using a case study approach and participant observation. For the first year of their PhD the appointee will work closely with Sky News on […]
Knight News Challenge: Round 2 Launches
The Knight News Challenge, in which winners get grants ranging from tiny to huge, is in its second year. Here’s the Knight Foundation’s pitch: It’s time to enter this year’s Knight News Challenge, which awards big money for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news. The contest is run by the John S. […]