Sep
3
Happy holiday.
- Update 1: Goodbye to Newspapers? Russell Baker has a NYT Review of Boks piece on two books I’m not likely to read, but his essay is a good read. Via Juan Antonio Giner.
- Update 2: What am I doing here? Part II. Ron Sylvester has moved his always readable tales of discovery in multimedia journalism to a new group blog at the SPJ site. Adjust bookmarks accordingly.
- Billboards Go Digital. Forbes suggests the ability to quickly change messages on CearChannel owned billboards is another threat to big city newspaper advertising. I’m not so sure, given that we are not that far away from new technologies capable of turning just about anything into a advertising billboard (think “e-paper“) and there will be no monopoly on that.
- Vidcast: Ira Glass on Bringing THIS AMERICAN LIFE to Television. A nice three-minute video with Ira Glass talking about taking his immensely popular radio show to the tube. High entertainment value.
- The days of seeming stability are long gone. Howard Owens has some solid ideas about what it’s going to take to survive in a new newspapering world where the only constant is change.
- Journalism is Burning Or How Breaking News is Broken. I’m not sure what to make of these ruminations on ways of doing breaking/developing news. Some of it seems old hat, some worth a deep second look. Interesting stuff in the comments, too.
