Entries written in June 2008
Written June 25, 2008 in Web2.0, new media, news business
In an interesting twist, William M. Hartnett of the Palm Beach Post has been Twittering his buyout meeting.
Some highlights:
- No details yet on layoff severance package if buyouts don’t meet job cut goals. Just “less generous.” 9 minutes ago from web
- Guy in front row is staring at the ceiling. [...]
Abrams interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic:
JG: Why were you surprised to find out that your company has reporters based in Iraq?
LA: I was in Los Angeles, sitting in this casual little meeting waiting for someone to show up, and there was this lady who had just got back from four years in Iraq, [...]
In a short commentary in AdBusters Dan Rather, former anchor of CBS Evening News and broadcast journalism icon, had some terse words for American journalism and the “international conglomerates” that own it:
I believe the American people want to stand up to political pressure and say, “Report the news the way we want you to [...]
From SPJ’s Classrooms & Newsrooms:
The graduate journalism schools at Columbia University and the City University of New York will improve their new-media programs with a total of $8-million in grants from the Tow Foundation, the charity announced today.
Columbia will receive $5-million, and CUNY $3-million. Under the terms of the grants, Columbia must garner an additional [...]
(May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008)
Twenty-three comedy albums, 14 HBO specials, three books, TV shows and multiple great appearances on Saturday Night Live. Somehow that still doesn’t seem like enough.
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A few days ago my superior/colleague (though not for long) Danny Sanchez posted about some open job positions in the journalism world. With all of the talk about newsroom cutbacks and staff layoffs it is refreshing, and I imagine comforting to those just coming out of j-school, to see that there are in fact still [...]
The New York Times has added a social feature to its site called TimesPeople (beta). While not a full-fledged social network, the new feature allows people to create a profile, add friends and share articles.
Its most clever ability is its interaction with social-networking behemoth Facebook. Users can connect it with an NYT Facebook application and [...]
From Doug Fisher and Media Bistro, apparently the Orange County Register is going to start a pilot program where they will outsource their copy-editing duties to India.
To me this is simply a tragedy. There are those that feel copy editing is the most mechanical of all of the journalism duties in the newsroom, fixing grammar [...]
More photos.
Off topic post, but I figured I’d share some photos of my old dog. I had to say my final farewell to the fella since I am moving to Minneapolis and he is staying in Florida with his mom. I’m going to miss the little guy, even though I rarely see him.
A new dog [...]
From the LA Times, this guy Twitter’ed his layoff from Yahoo! and it ended up landing him a new job. Sweet!
The embed code on the video wouldn’t work properly so I had to just do it as a link.
Still, it’s an interesting story.
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Yup, the OJR is going to stop the publication of it’s Web site. From Robert Niles in the final post:
This is the final post at OJR. After a decade, the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication has decided to cease publication of the website. The archives will remain online, but there will be [...]
Want to learn some basic Web design stuff but don’t feel like slogging through a book or taking a community college class? Here are a whole gaggle (well 10 actually) of video tutorials someone linked on Mashable covering everything from basic HTML to CSS and even some PHP and other scripting languages. Check it out.
Oh, and I have no idea what is up with the picture of Tony “Gazelle” Little.
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(L-R) Democratic strategist James Carville and his wife Republican strategist Mary Matalin burst into tears during a taping of “Meet the Press” in memory of the late moderator Tim Russert. (Alex Wong/Getty Images for Meet the Press)
While I think MSNBC is going a bit overboard with their coverage and engaging in a fair amount [...]
The current issue of the American Journalism Review has an excellent article by Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi analyzing the charges of media bias in our current political campaign and in general. I urge you to read the full article, but one portion stood out to me:
The public doesn’t really understand how the news is [...]
Ira Glass, host of NPR’s This American Life, explaining his take on storytelling. I think a lot of this can be appropriated to how we need to start telling stories online, be it by video, audio or just in words.
Now, this isn’t a cure-all template that can and will always work, but it’s a good way of thinking when it comes to good storytelling. If anything, if you are a big fan of TAL but don’t really know why, this sort of explains it.
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