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 [...]
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 [...]
Content at the cost of community? My unasked question for Schiller and Armstrong at #ONA10
The Q&A session at the ONA10 luncheon with NPR’s Vivian Schiller and AOL’s Tim Armstrong wrapped up before I got to ask my question, so I pose it here for your consideration, comments and tweeting pleasure. It won’t be on CSPAN, but maybe they’ll see it and hopefully respond. Before mergers and broadband, AOL was [...]
My take on the iPad: No Flash is foolish | Nanotech – The Circuits Blog – CNET News
My take on the iPad: No Flash is foolish | Nanotech – The Circuits Blog – CNET News. i agree. no matter if you love or hate flash as either a developer or a user, this whole thing is just plain silly.
Eat that fish: Not online or print, but how to work together
ASNE‘s annual meeting is happening this week in Washington. Several of my students have been there covering it. With low attendance at the conference, a lingering low pressure system of bleak industry news, hot new mobile devices on the market, and recent pew reports, it could be easy to argue that “print is dead” and [...]
don’t bash newsmedia as luddites, hackerjournos have advanced the art for years
i caught the first tweet on this article earlier this week and have waited to write on it. Will Columbia-Trained, Code-Savvy Journalists Bridge the Media/Tech Divide? | Epicenter | Wired.com. yes i love that columbia is doing this degree. it is rigorous and serious and lengthy. and i love that medill is successfully working with [...]
The Critical Mistake that Keeps Bloggers Broke | Copyblogger
Great, succinct post by Larry Brooks over at CopyBlogger that is a must read for all my students and colleagues, especially the ones who are either recently laid off from journalism or writing about how to “save journalism.” Your blog is a strategy, a branding and marketing vehicle, a means toward an end. Your business [...]
the big takeaway from #wjchat – journotaxonomy
I just got out of a really great twitter chat hashed wjchat that was pitched at web journalists and kicked off tonight. There were plenty of seasoned hacker journos there mingling with new and curious types who were online/social savvy so the pace was blisteringly brisk and friendly. In all a great chat, but there was [...]
The Impenetrable Layer of Suck
By Suw Charman-Anderson The Impenetrable Layer of Suck, a brilliant geo-visualization of a hilarious and insightful comment made by Peter Corbett (@corbett3000) of istrategylabs. Middle management generally seeks to entrench and justify existence by viewing knowledge as power. Top down organizational hierarchies and tall management structures have been proven time and again as inhibitors to [...]
Promising online news organizations – The hunt is on | Knight Digital Media Center
saw this retweeted a lot yesterday, so i wanted to check it out. Promising online news organizations – The hunt is on | Knight Digital Media Center. i think it is an admirable and well- intentioned effort, and i realize it is just getting started. i wanted to post this comment, but it didn’t quite [...]