Jan
7
The list is long as I get caught up on the surfing I didn’t do over the holidays, so I’ve broken it in two.
- Five tests for newspaper blogs. Martin Stabe passes along an oh-so-practical short test for newspaper blogging. Short-form: if it doesn’t add anything and you don’t give reporters the time to do it, kill the idea.
- Press Freedom Round-up 2006. The subhead at the Reporters Without Borders site tells the tale: The deadliest year since 1994.
- Swamis Predict More Media Shifting in ‘07. Mark Glaser has an entertaining round-up on some media-related predictions — none of them startling — for the year.
- PEJ to Launch the News Coverage Index. An interesting initiative from the Project for Excellence in Journalism: tracking what’s being covered, and not being covered, and regularly reporting on what the press is doing, and how well it reflects the interests of the public.
- A ‘good enough’ replacement for journalism? Steve Yelvington ponders a lesson from the early days of the internet and what it means for journalism. He also suggests that we in media-related fields may be asking the wrong question.
- Reflections of a newsosaur. Alan Mutter is one of the best media bloggers when it comes to digging into, and putting context to, the financial numbers. His last four posts, Size Does Matter, Feet on the Street in Philly, Shaken but not Stirred, and Vaporized: $13.5B in news stock value, give a depressing view of what’s happening to the newspaper industry. If you haven’t already done so, bookmark this guy.
