Mar
18
Sunday surfing didn’t start until late:
- When does human end and journalist begin? Dennis Dunleavy doesn’t have a short-and-sweet answer, but he does have a post worth reading and pondering.
- Online advertising needs to grow up. Mathew Ingram adds some thoughts to the issue raised by Scott Karp.
- No respect. Alan Mutter has an in-depth look at the idea being floated that the embattled Tribune company will try to fend off investors by selling assets and paying out a big dividend. Bad move, says Alan.
- Online, Down Under. Mark Potts looks at Brisbane, Australia, and wonders why American newspapers haven’t gone where the Fairfax group is going: online only.
- Hyperlocal doesn’t mean being obsessive about every breath your city council takes. Ryan Sholin provides a veritable checklist for anyone interested in covering a community. There’s a lot more to his post than that, of course. And follow the link to Kevin Anderson’s post on defining news.
- 16 Ways The News Media Can Use Blogs. Speaking of checklists, here’s one from the Bivings Report. I’d consider it a starter list for newsroom discussion: some of the suggestions are blogging toe-in-the-water types of things and I think we’re past the point of tiptoeing in.
