Universidad Mayor and TVN, a Chilean broadcaster, are bringing me to Santiago the week after next for three days of talks, workshops and more. They’ve even set up a Web page for the events, and asked me to record a short greeting video for the gig. It’s all here. If we can pull it together […]
Posts from ‘October, 2007’
Slippery Business by Murdoch Company; No Surprise
NY Times: Dow Jones Drops CNBC Ads From Web Sites in Favor of Fox Links. On the day they had contracted to run advertisements placed by CNBC, two Web sites owned by Dow Jones & Company instead ran ads for that cable business channel’s new competitor, the Fox Business Network. Both MarketWatch and The Wall […]
New Nonprofit Investigative Journalism Project
NY Times: Group Plans to Provide Investigative Journalism. Paul E. Steiger, who was the top editor of The Wall Street Journal for 16 years, and a pair of wealthy Californians are assembling a group of investigative journalists who will give away their work to media outlets. Foundations are stepping into the breach left by downsizing […]
Mortgage (and Journalism) Meltdown
The SF Chronicle banners on its front page, “Neighborhoods Crumble in Wave of Foreclosures“: The combination of plunging values and higher mortgage payments created the perfect breeding ground for foreclosures. Homeowners who could not afford escalating monthly payments also could not refinance if their homes were worth less than the mortgages, and could not sell […]
Wikipedia Parent Moving to San Francisco
SF Chronicle: Wikimedia abandons Florida for San Francisco. The Wikimedia Foundation, the force behind the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is moving its headquarters to San Francisco this winter, further solidifying the Bay Area’s position as the epicenter of the Web 2.0 movement, which focuses on collaboration, community and user-generated content.
Contest for Employees Only: A Mistake
GateHouse Media, a big newspaper company, is holding an in-house contest for ideas that will generate $50 million in new earnings, Poynter reports. (The rules are here.) The winner can get up to $1 million. The contest is a great idea. But it should be open to all, not just GateHouse. The best ideas aren’t […]
Chauncey Bailey's Story Isn't Over
Editor & Publisher: Journos in Bay Area Launch ‘Chauncey Bailey Project’. In a collaboration reminiscent of the 1976 “Arizona Project,” more than two dozen San Francisco Bay Area journalists are launching the Chauncey Bailey Project to continue the investigative reporting the Oakland Post editor was pursuing when he was murdered on Aug. 2. This is […]
NewAssignment.net's Lessons Learned (So Far)
Jay Rosen offers “What I Learned from Assignment Zero.” A great deal, it turns out…
Yes, We Had a Major Outage
We’re still not clear what happened, but the site may have been under some kind of attack. Happily, we’re back up, at least for now.
Big News in Citizen Media: MSNBC Buys Newsvine
The news that MSNBC has bought Newsvine is a very big deal in the new media world. MSNBC.com has done a lot of excellent online journalism over the years, and pulling Newsvine under its wing make perfect sense. Now we need to see the experiment taken to a more logical conclusion, because Newsvine and its […]