By Mindy McAdams
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Clay Shirky urged newspapers to experiment more, in a bit he wrote about the future for newspapers — on a “blog forum” (?!) at Britannica.com:
… good journalism needs to be subsidized in order to thrive. There is no obvious reason, however, that those subsidies have to continue to come from Bloomingdale’s and BellSouth; what journalism […]
Thanks to Mathew Ingram for highlighting an article by Brian Stelter about networked information, in which Stelter illustrates ways in which younger voters act as conduits of news and current events. Their networks are not the old top-down networks of mass media — they resemble more the interpersonal networks of the bazaar, the coffee shop, […]
My friend Alf Hermida worked for BBC News online for many years, so please listen up:
It is time to stop talking about repurposing and instead to start a discussion on how to re-imagine journalism.
Alf’s been noticing that too many so-called online journalism textbooks spend too many pages discussing a practice that is just plain bad […]
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 […]
Ryan Sholin made a list of 15 reasons why he has used a print newspaper (instead of the online). I found it eclectic and thought provoking.
For a couple of minutes I mused on my teen years, when I read the newspaper every day. My list for that time (30 years ago) would start like this:
Comics
Ann […]
I spent the past two days playing host to Ken Speake, a master storyteller and a longtime journalist. We put him in front of as many students as we could without completely wearing him down to a nub, and it might have been the most valuable 50 minutes each of those students has spent all […]
Scott Karp writes about “link journalism” and how it could have saved face for The New York Times in the recent case of using unnamed sources in a story about John McCain and a lobbyist:
… on the web, with its infinite space and connectedness, the Times could have added an important supplement to their own […]
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