You are your own brand. Young journalists need to understand this, and the sooner, the better.
Thursday I gave what I call the “wake-up call” lecture to the students in our Editing class, which is required of all print journalism majors. The gist is that if your name doesn’t Google well — if you don’t have [...]

A journalist is tweeting the closing arguments of a sentencing trial in Spokane — live. This is a capital murder case.

The newspaper’s Twitter feed is here. WARNING: Some descriptions and references relate to extreme violence. More trial coverage from The Spokesman-Review appears on a special Web page.
Journalists at The Wichita Eagle pioneered this kind of [...]

After watching El País cover a large-scale tragedy thoroughly, tirelessly, with courage and restraint, I dipped into my RSS reader and found Greg Linch’s post at TNTJ ( “Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists”). If you’re in the mood for inspiration, for something to make you stop sighing and crying about the current state of journalism, TNTJ [...]

The exclamations of amazement and disgust (x 2) at the Philadelphia Inquirer’s new online policy (or should we say non-online policy? Anti-online policy?) reminded me of something someone told me yesterday about a discussion in a newsroom, very recently, at a large metro daily. (Sorry, I’m not allowed to say which one.)
In a meeting in [...]

A thoughtful post by Jay Rosen analyzes the raw emotions unleashed in the comments on Jessica DaSilva’s July 2 post about the Tampa Tribune’s “Black Wednesday.”
He points to the TreeHouse Media Project as an alternative to going gentle into the dark night — one that would redirect the rage into a useful effort.
Laid off? Bought [...]

Today let’s look at the 500-pound gorilla.
“The thing that worries me most at the moment about the condition of journalism is, frankly, who’s going to pay for the journalists and the journalism in 10 years’ time? Teenagers, people in their twenties, even in their late twenties, have now got to the position where they wouldn’t [...]

Yesterday I had a conversation with a reporter whose news organization has committed to forming a new Web/digital team. His questions made me think about how undefined this work still is, on the whole.
He asked whether there is any book or Web site that explains the differences among all the job titles he’s encountered — [...]