Newspapers are the slowest, most hidebound, head-in-the-sand businesses in the world. The people who work for newspapers are good people, smart people (I love them; they are my people) — but they keep looking back when they should be looking forward.
I see evidence of that in the stats for this blog. I write about Craigslist [...]

Craigslist got my stuff back for me after it had been stolen.
The details of the theft (my bicycle panniers and their contents) are not important. I was so mad, though (the theft took place in midafternoon on the major street in town, not 10 feet from the curb), that I wanted desperately to do something. [...]

Beautiful multimedia and a very important story: A Diamond’s Journey, from MSNBC.com.
From Congo and Angola to the cutters in India, from India to the Diamond District in New York City, a squad of journalists and seven designers and producers created a deep but extraordinarily accessible story package about how diamonds travel from the hands of [...]

We all agree that something must change, because clearly newspapers have become irrelevant to many people in the local communities they claim to serve. The solo mojos at the News-Press in Fort Myers, Florida, certainly represent a change, and if they spend all day out in those communities, then maybe it’s a change for the [...]

Andy Dickinson ran a workshop for print journalists who will be using video, and he posted some fascinating details about the training.
British print journalists can write shorthand at 100 words per minute? In 2006? Who knew!
What really grabbed my attention was the 150 words vs. 400 words comparison.
In TV, even if the information is there, [...]

I’m thinking about how journalists do their jobs today.
Now, partly this depends on the kind of organization you work for — TV or newspaper, etc. And partly it depends on what your job description is — reporter, photographer, news graphics artist, etc.
So let’s just think about a reporter at a newspaper for a moment. That’s [...]

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