Here’s putting it all into perspective: What the hell is the point of having this means of communication if we are not going to write about what people need to know? We can write about dating when we have our freedom back. From Nepalese blogger Dinesh Wagle (in AsiaMedia, April 17, 2006). Elsewhere, Bill Doskoch [...]
Read what Steve Yelvington wrote about the Pulitizers being old and tired. Technorati tags: newspapers | online journalism
David Carr got it wrong when he analyzed the meaning of the Star Tribune’s reaction to employees taking copies of the newspaper without paying for them: There is an implicit broader message. If the people who make the paper believe that an electronic version of the product is just as good as the one readers [...]
Reading up on the 2006 Pulitzers, like any good journalist can’t help doing, I got curious about one of The Washington Post’s four Prize-winners, a three-part series about attempts to bring democracy to Yemen. So I go to The Post and type “yemen” into the search box, and what do I get? Nothing. That is, [...]
The 2006 Pulitzer Prize winners include photojournalist Todd Heisler of the Rocky Mountain News, in Denver, Colorado. I thought his incredible pictures of Marines and their dead (from the Iraq war) at funerals back in the U.S. were Pulitzer material the minute I first saw them. But you really should see them as I did [...]
I’m not going to obsess forever about my lucky link from Romenesko last Thursday, but I have been curious about whether I would see any persistent increase in traffic to this blog. There is some. Screenshot taken at 6:06 p.m. EDT on Monday, April 17, 2006, from Site Meter. Now, whether it lasts or not, [...]
In case you do not believe that Web video for the masses (as producers, I mean) has “arrived”: Welcome to Freevlog. Technorati tags: video | blogs | vblogs