The real reason the internet is killing old-school journalism: Transparency
Journalists Overlook Ideological Diversity of Occupy Protest Movement | Age of Engagement | Big Think. Reading the above post and watching the short clip, another voice — independent from me — is helping illustrate why the occupy movement is the shark that corporate journalism jumped in 2011. Transparency is killing old-school journalism. Old school journalists [...]
Help me create a media technology management course
i’ve been asked to put together a course in media technology management as part of a new curriculum we’re developing that serves the demand for media entrepreneurship education. as i’ve been writing away at it, i thought i’d reach out and see what you’d like to learn or think should be considered as part of [...]
@brianstelter NYT piece on occupy wall street unwittingly shows gap in citizen and legacy media
NY Times media scribe Brian Stelter has a piece out today (Occupy Wall Street Protests a Growing News Story – NYTimes.com) that looks at how the news media is picking up on the Occupy Wall Street and associated movements and how coverage has been growing and changing in tone. I’ve been talking about this movement for [...]
News media’s 2011 bridezilla moment in 9/11 anniversary coverage
Not for a second would I ever suggest I feel anything but the deepest sympathies for those lost and those who lost and I really think everyone was touched by what happened on September 11, 2001. But I must voice a dissenting opinion on the news media as a whole industry for how every editor [...]
Like science and politics, journalism and belief don’t mix
Science deals in reality, and it isn’t there to make you feel comfortable about things. Belief is how you explain the un-explainable. And it must change as new evidence becomes available. A fantastic Op-Ed by Krugman today: Mr. Perry, the governor of Texas, recently made headlines by dismissing evolution as “just a theory,” one that [...]
National Geographic Expedition Week game sponsored by artifact sales
I saw the tweet about click through and take pictures and NG would mail you artifacts if you played their game Mission Expedition | Expedition Week- National Geographic Channel. But I didn’t think they’d be real, actual artifacts. And then I saw the sponsor banner link for Ancient Resource. Ancient Resource is the name [...]
Is the NYT paywall really the biz plan of the New York Times Syndicate
With the paywall going into wide effect on March 28, the Times’ own scribes Nate Silver and David Carr have both chimed added their voices to multitudes of opinion on the subject. Yes, it costs money to produce the news. People need to get paid for their work when they dedicate themselves to it. That’s [...]
Why don’t we consider the working model in online paywalls: single copy sales?
Looking through some of the coverage and commentary of the New York Times new metered paywall business plan, like this one at Poynter and many others like it, I have to ask a question I’ve wondered for a while. Why did newspapers forget about single copy sales in online business plans? There’s a bit of [...]
Does your job require someone else’s help? Hi, you’re expendable.
Just went through another round of this, so let’s break it down, folks. If your job requires the help of someone else, you need someone else to do their job before you can do yours, or you need another employee to get your work out the door to where it can make money… allow me [...]
Science ‘dorks’ see need | The Columbus Dispatch
MythBusters should be in and Jersey Shore, out. At least that’s what students at Metro Early College High School say. Students from the Northwest Side school discussed high-schoolers’ attitudes toward math and science education in a town-hall setting yesterday. They would choose the science-based show on the Discovery Channel over the MTV reality show about [...]