An update from my life: I’m having a blast teaching feature writing to a group of first-year journalism students. So far, in the first four weeks of classes, I’ve had them read Jon Franklin, Susan Orlean (two pieces: The Lady and the Tigers and Figures in a Mall), Jon Lee Anderson, George Packer and Gene [...]
I have taken to throwing links into my Twitter feed and don’t tend to duplicate them in my squibs. Until I can figure out an elegant way to get those links into my RSS feed, you’ll either have to follow me on Twitter, or hit the website every once in a while and check out [...]
Some reading for your day: 10 Twitter users that every journalism student should follow? Paul Bradshaw has a Brit-heavy list (which only makes sense) that’s worth a look at. Comment section is filling up with responses, additions, etc. The three primary roles your local website should play. Oh, my this is a very smart post [...]
Some things that deserve to be more widely read and debated: 4 things I would tell a freshman journalism student. I don’t entirely agree with some of Sean Blanda’s premises, but his ideas are worth thinking and talking about. Thirty things you might miss in a world without newspapers. Another list, this one just plain [...]
I no longer have a kneejerk, no-government-money-for-media stance. It doesn’t make much sense when you consider how much support newspapers in particular have received over the years: special mailing rates, lucrative government advertising (mandated by legislation), shared job-training programs, etc. But I’m still agin ‘em at the moment. All of them, including the $30 million [...]
Thanks to all of those who left comments of congratulations on my fifth anniversary as a blogger. It means a lot.
Here’s what the Canadian federal budget says about the $30 million it will provide for newspapers and magazines over the next two years: Community Newspapers and Magazines Canadians continue to look to local magazines and publications to see reflections of themselves and their communities. Budget 2009 will continue this tradition by providing $30 million over [...]
Five years ago tomorrow, this blog was born. First post: You can quote me A brief review on how to write out quotes, which seem to be a little troublesome. “The time has come,” he said. That’s a sentence. Starts with a big letter and ends with a dot. It takes a comma to separate [...]
I’m not sure we’ve seen the worst of the disruption that newspapers are facing because of the internet. Consider HOW TO: Track the Israel Gaza Conflict Using Social Media, an excellent post at Mashable. In it, author Jennifer Van Grove, provides links to a number of services and technologies (Crisiswire, Twitter, RSS, Notify.Me, etc.) that [...]
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If recent posts seem to be concentrating on the issue of paying for news, it’s because it’s much on my mind. Maybe the biggest hurdle in getting to the point where people will pay for news, whether it’s through subscriptions, tip jars, pay-per-views or whatever, is trying to answer the question, Which news? (An ancillary [...]
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