How to become a (dying) dinosaur:
When I entered Disney, it was like a classic Cadillac Phaeton that had been left out in the rain … The company’s thought process was not, “We have all this amazing machinery — how do we use it to make exciting things? We could go to Mars in this rocket […]

I don’t know what inspired the clever folks at the Las Vegas Sun to concoct this, but it is great fun for a frequent flyer such as I:
Flight Delay Calculator
See what bad records some airports have for delayed flights — all over the United States. Look up your most hated airline (tough choice!) or how […]

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 […]

Tear down the newsroom and remake it in the image of digital reality — that’s what The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has done, according to Shawn McIntosh:
… we had to address our newsroom’s core structure. The AJC and ajc.com had to become faster and more nimble. Having more than a dozen desks and departments devoted to specific […]

Adrian Holovaty has announced the shutdown of chicagocrime.org, the groundbreaking online dynamic data project that has inspired so many journalists since 2005 (only 2005? Gosh, it seems much longer … Internet years …).
The site is still functioning today, but according to Adrian’s post, it will be gone tomorrow.
One of many things I have liked to […]

Does this sound familiar?
An innovation replaces an earlier convention and, in time, becomes a new convention. It is a cycle — a process in which insight inspires change and creates value.
We rarely recognize innovation while it’s happening. Instead, innovation is often a label applied after the fact, when the results are clear and the new […]

Who, you ask? Surely you have seen the elaborate student multimedia productions from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including Chiloé Stories and The Ancient Way. That’s Rich Beckman.
News via Greg Linch, a student journalist at the University of Miami.
Read the press release from the Knight Foundation.