Aug
13
What? It’s Wednesday already?
- US media’s crimes against Web 2.0. Rory Cellan-Jones of the BBC provides a measured look at two recent media controversies — NBC’s delaying the broadcast of the Olympic opening ceremonies and the infamous Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper-first memo. Related: The Great Philadelphia Kerfluffle. Will Bunch on that memo and what came next.
- The AP–Of All Places–As News Industry Think-Tank. Mark Potts has details from a little-noted AP report that deals with the issue of young folk and the news. Lots of ideas there to play with.
- Conventional Nonsense. Lots of fulminating over the fact that 15,000 journalists are expected at the less-than-newsworthy Republican and Democrat national conventions. Jack Shafer has the best take I’ve read.
- i are cute kitten. Okay, no redeeming value here at all. A rather well-edited, home-shot LOLcat video that I’m passing along only because the star of the show is what my cat looked like a dozen years ago or so.
- Twitterer/streaming video broadcaster evicted from Olympics. Can we stop congratulating the Chinese on how nice their Olympics are?
- Cox Enterprises To Divest Of Papers; Valpak Direct Mail Unit. I first learned of this through tweets from William Hartnett. This is the Paid Content brief on the latest newspaper chain to attempt to shed assets to pay off debt.
- Magazine sales tumble. Forty-four per cent of 62 Canadian magazines that were audited showed a double digit decline between January and July. Even Hockey News took a big hit, which should make Canadian souls shudder.
- National Explainer: A Job for Journalists on the Demand Side of News. Jay Rosen has expanded on a recent Idea Lab piece on explanatory journalism and offers some suggestions where the much-needed beast might come from, to benefit both readers and journalists.
- Sisyphus and Cassandra don’t live here any more. Steve Yelvington gets all classical to explain that the world is changing within the newsroom.
- The reading is all gloomy for newspaper proprietors. In Britain too, apparently. Repeat after me: the doom and gloom is not all, or even mostly, American and recessionary. Related: A paper’s sad decline in debt’s grip, where Alan Mutter turns his fine, analytical eye on the MediaNews Group.
- Death toll rises for journalists killed in Georgia. Four journalists have been killed so far.
- Google wants to eat your lunch, not feed you lunch. Lucas Grindley speaks truth to power.
- What the propane depot explostions taught me about coverning breaking news on the web. Bill Dunphy, who pointed how how media failed to take advantage of Web 2.0 when big news broke in Toronto, offers some lessons learned and ideas for next time.
I know there’s a lot of negative stuff in the list above, but remember: I also pointed to a cute kitten.
Currently playing in iTunes: Asik Oldum (U.H.) by Aynur Ha?ha?
