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4:42 – New Students are the Stewards of Journalism
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Chris O’Brien from the San Jose Mercury news: I haven’t heard what the new jobs are on the business side. Apparently the journalists are much more entrepreneurial than those on the business side. Thomas Eisenmann of the Harvard Business School is surprised that journalists and business people are working so well together here. Good job.
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4:39PM – Newsroom as Classroom: See How the Sausage is Made.
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Jeff Jarvis suggests that the role of the newsroom needs to be reinterprted. Now, instead of being a place where news just emanates from, there is a need for greater training, not just on the craft of writing but in the tools of storytelling as well. Rachel Stern of Ground Report.com has been broadcasting live […]
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4:33PM – Editors Are Not the Enemy
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
There’s a bit of a disconnect between what editors roles are in the newsroom. Reporters think that they’re the enemy, but Dars of the Indiana Review says different. “Editors are responsible for the look and tone of the paper,” she said. David Cohn says that his type of journalism is different and questions whether or […]
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4:30PM – Now We Need Research
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Persephone Miel says that there’s got to be a way for CUNY find out where the values are. Students and teachers, responsible for the continuance of journalism, should be taking stock of the metrics for now and for the future. Sounds like a plan: But what is the role of education?
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10:52AM – Adam Davidson
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
The author of the “Giant Pool of Money” story from NPR had the good fortune to ride the economic collapse to 18-hour days and the number one spot on iTunes. Talk about an enormous response! Now that the economy is on everybody’s lips, it’s not hard to get ears. But NPR is a bureaucracy. So […]
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10:45AM Outside.in's Mark Josephson Gets Hyperlocal
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
“You can’t put a reporter on a pothole in the current market,” says Mark Josephson. But Outside.in is there. Consumer demand is not being met because coverage stops on the zip code level. The “new local” has to get to the personal experience: The house, the school, the church, and that pesky pothole that needs […]
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10:39AM – A Moment with Charlie Sennot
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
GlobalPost.com is taking the stringer model and applying it to international reporting. Thank God. “We think that the American public is underserved by international news,” said Charlie Sennot. “We need an American voice in international news.” Sennot wants to make GlobalPost the go-to site for info-starved Americans. The question is how to pay for it. […]
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10:31AM – Everybody Hates Johnathan Rosenblum, But That's Just Fine for Him
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Don’t blame Johnathan Rosenblum for newsroom cuts. Granted, some folks at old-fashioned news organizations may have been put out to pasture, but he’s done more good for news and news organizations than most think. “You don’t need sound men. You don’t need cameramen. And any 9-year-old kin can edit broadcast-quality video,” he says. What Rosenblum […]
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10:23AM IDG's David Cohn Takes the Stage with a Little Bit of Hope!
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Cohn and IDG made the split for one of their brands. “Print was sucking the energy out of the organization,” Cohn said. “But in 12 months, Infoworld became profitable.” The people working at Infoworld didn’t do too badly either. Now they’re “aggressively innovative,” and thinking of how the audience engages with content rather than just […]
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10:16AM – Did Craigslist Destroy Newspapers?
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Newspapers don’t have a news problem: They have a marketing and distribution problem. Purcell says that they’ve been gouging readers for decades. And now, when faced with a cheaper and more direct tool like Craigslist, they’re bailing. Newspapers have split off from a marketing-centric model or “disaggregate.” So, what are we hearing: Spin off local […]
