Jun
9
More weekend reading, as I continue to get caught up after my two-week break.
- Quick-and-easy guide to audio editing. Mindy McAdams has two downloadable PDFs that cover the basics of getting sound into, edited and out of Audacity. Solid stuff. Related: Audio ethics, by Melissa Worden. Follow the links, too.
- Sensationalizing health coverage. Deborah Jones at the Canadian Journalism Project points to an undercovered bit of research that says Canadian newspapers miss the real stories about health care.
- The Parent Company. Ed Cone continues his coverage of the large-scale layoffs at the Greensboro News & Record by diving into the financials of the newspaper’s owner. Unanswered in coverage of the two-year-and-counting round of newspaper layoffs is whether the underlying goal is survival or merely protecting increasingly unattainable profit margins.
- Tighter Budgets Slashing Internships. More woes. (I should have titled this “Business squibs, I think, as that seems to make up the bulk of the media news these days.)
- $2B in newspaper print ads periled. Alan Mutter knows the financial side of newspapers better than anyone else that I regularly read. This post, like so much of what he writes, is essential reading.
- Speed Demon Photography. For some relief from all that gloom, some great photography on the theme of speed. The dog will give you nightmares; the roller-coaster shot is incredibly well timed. Via Jason Kottke, who does a great job of scoping out great photo sites.
- Media jobs galore! And a bit of good news: according to Media Bistro, media-related job ads are up significantly at Monster.com.
