Awesome post from Melissa Worden:
Looking from the outside in
She explains how she consumes and follows news now that she is no longer a working journalist. She is still a news junkie, obviously — but one who never reads a printed newspaper. And she’s clearly online-savvy.

I subscribe to news Twitter accounts. CNN posts breaking news tweets, [...]

With 75 percent of all adult Americans using a mobile phone or PDA, journalists need to start thinking about what people do with those gadgets — and how it relates to distributing the products of journalism.
In addition to making voice phone calls, mobile users are texting, e-mailing, sending instant messages; taking pictures; looking for maps [...]

Found randomly, read with pleasure:
It’s time for a new plan. What about allowing subscription cell phone updates for our best apps, or a choice for ad-supported and free? What about harvesting user information and allowing for targeted, premium advertising (the Facebook model)? What about sponsorship?
The journalists who are doing this kind of work are spilling [...]

Like a lot of j-schools, mine has been discussing updates to the curriculum. Much of that discussion concerns skills. So we ended up saying we need a list of skills. Then someone said, yeah, I’ve seen that kind of list, and I don’t know what some of that stuff means. If you say the students [...]

Smart words from Abdul Hamid Ahmad, Editor-in-Chief of Gulf News, based in Dubai:
Digital journalism is part of the continued journey of journalism.  …
The increasingly active role of the reader/user in the news process is an opportunity not a threat for professional journalists.  …
The Golden Age of investigative journalism is just beginning.  …
Read the interview. It’s [...]

Recent news about the journalism business has been depressing. I’m sure you’ve noticed. So it’s kind of hard to get jazzed about writing a blog post sometimes. Yoni Greenbaum was feeling the same way, it seems:
… our newsrooms and online operations are being overtly influenced by dinosaurs who are content with seeing their employer struggle [...]

From Phil Meyer, speaking on the occasion of a two-day symposium marking his retirement as Knight Chair at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication:
The hunter-gatherer model of journalism is no longer sufficient. Citizens can do their own hunting and gathering on the Internet. What they need is somebody to [...]