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30 Jul 09
Salon.com News | Who needs newspapers when you have Twitter?
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In the past, the media was a full-time job. But maybe the media is going to be a part-time job. Maybe media won't be a job at all, but will instead be a hobby.
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It's going to take us a decade or two to figure out what it is we're doing.
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27 Jul 09
Op-Ed Columnist - And That’s Not the Way It Is - NYTimes.com
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Watching many of the empty Cronkite tributes in his own medium over the past week, you had to wonder if his industry was sticking to mawkish clichés just to avoid unflattering comparisons. If he was the most trusted man in America, it wasn’t because he was a nice guy with an authoritative voice and a lived-in face. It wasn’t because he “loved a good story” or that he removed his glasses when a president died. It was because at a time of epic corruption in the most powerful precincts in Washington, Cronkite was not at the salons and not in the tank.
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The real test is how a journalist responds when people in high places are doing low deeds out of camera view and getting away with it. Vietnam and Watergate, not Kennedy and Neil Armstrong, are what made Cronkite Cronkite.
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06 May 09
Greg Mitchell: How Media Will Pay for Poor Warning on Financial Collapse
... a new Rasmussen poll revealed that one in four Americans now believe that the "faux" news delivered by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert is replacing "real" news sources as viable outlets.
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But to miss a story of this enormity, with consequences that will echo (like Iraq) for decades, only adds weight to the warnings of doom for the "old" media.
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"No one knew" and "we're only as good as our sources" or "they lied to us" are the common excuses. That sounds exactly like the media defending its Iraq miscues.
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18 Feb 09
12 Twitter Stream Aggregators To Make You Smarter | Online Marketing Blog
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As a blogger or journalist using Twitter, aggregator sites are priceless for finding news items early in their upward trend towards becoming buzz.
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historic pages so you can go back to any particular date at 5 minute intervals to see what tweetmeme looked like in the past.
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07 Feb 09
Bloggers Contemplate the Economy, Rush, and Zombies | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)
Interesting comparison of the differences in what bloggers focus on and what the mainstream news media covers. Hint: Bloggers don't give a darn about Blago.
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While the more traditional press overwhelmingly focused on the economic crisis and the stimulus plan, the new media’s attention was equally divided among three diverse subjects—the villains of the financial meltdown, Obama’s decision to criticize Rush Limbaugh, and jokesters who changed a road sign to warn of a “zombie attack.”
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While the more traditional press overwhelmingly focused on the economic crisis and the stimulus plan, the new media’s attention was equally divided among three diverse subjects—the villains of the financial meltdown, Obama’s decision to criticize Rush Limbaugh, and jokesters who changed a road sign to warn of a “zombie attack.”
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29 Jan 09
News You Can Endow - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
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Thomas Jefferson wrote in January 1787. “And were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter.”
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Today, we are dangerously close to having a government without newspapers.
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29 Nov 08
Web Sites That Dig for News Rise as Watchdogs - NYTimes.com
News non-profits -- a new trend in the world of journalism?
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Yet the main revelations came not from any of San Diego’s television and radio stations or its dominant newspaper, The San Diego Union-Tribune, but from a handful of young journalists at a nonprofit Web site run out of a converted military base far from downtown’s glass towers — a site that did not exist four years ago.
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As America’s newspapers shrink and shed staff, and broadcast news outlets sink in the ratings, a new kind of Web-based news operation has arisen in several cities, forcing the papers to follow the stories they uncover.
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14 Oct 08
Prediction: How geezers will adapt to web, mobile for news: SteveOuting.com
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As newspapers (especially the larger metros, which face the worst declines) continue to lose staff, lose ad revenues, and in general get lower in quality, their loyal older readers will get fed up.
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the quality decline of print newspapers will force them to look elsewhere. The decimation of print editions will move older news consumers — many of whom have resisted the siren call of digital news — to adapt to the digital media lifestyle, at last.
10 Oct 08
Mahalo.com: Human-powered Search
Rec by Sholin, who notes it's "turning into a really interesting news/information mix. The short version...Mahalo = Wikipedia with a small group of paid editors, run by the guy who built Weblogs, Inc. (@JasonCalacanis)
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