Oct
12
If I’m blogging Friday evening, it’s obvious I do not lead a happening life.
- David Hiller, now publisher and blogger. Hiller, publisher of the LA Times, learned a couple of lessons when he launched a private blog for Times staff consumption and comment: don’t use Blogger, and newspaper offices are as leaky as any government office. LA Observed has the story. And a copy of Hills’ memo to staff.
- Famous anchor tells students to give. Jim Lehrer talks to students about the “screams of panic” coming from major media, but his concern isn’t the future of journalism, it’s the quality. Via The Canadian Journalism Project.
- Media concentration: the Irvings versus an upstart. When you have a virtual press monopoly, how do you handle potential competition? Through the courts, apparently.
- Is news outsourcing its future to search? Tom Abate says journalists need to start paying attention to the business side of things (he’s right). His post, on the outsourced sale of ads to Yahoo and the raid growth of Google as the front page, shows why.
- Interview: Merrill Brown, Chairman, NowPublic: Moving Citizen Journalism Towards Profitability. Still with business, Merrill Brown talks about the $10.6 million in funding NowPublic received and how it’s moving to a future with a profit.
- The appropriate eye. Interesting post by Andy Dickinson on the effect of technology on newsgathering that ties together everything from the pen and notebook to the (coming) high-quality multimedia cellphones. It’s a think piece, not a tech guide.
- Can Science Blogs Save Science Journalism? Good science journalism is increasingly rare. Can a concerted effort to help the journalists make a difference?
