Stable is a good thing, although when I hear it, I can’t help but also hear “the patient is in stable condition.” Stable was the descriptor used by NADBank, the Canadian newspaper association agency that tracks readership, in its press release on 2008 readership numbers, released today. From the release (note: link it to a [...]
pA test to see if the newest version of MarsEdit solves the problem of tags being stripped out when item is posted./p Nope. Still a problem. Drats.
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Media reporting of medical studies isn’t broken, but it does have a major crack in it. Fortunately, it would be easy enough to fix, if we can convince those who write about medical studies to stray from the current template. Here’s the template, courtesy of a recent Vancouver Sun article. The study may not be [...]
Some news, notes and musings about the state of and future for journalism. (And I swear, if I read one more death of newspapers=death of journalism=death of democracy piece of crap, my head may explode.) Web-Only Post Intelligencer: Worthy Experiment That Won’t Work. Jeff Bercovici says math isn’t on the side of the Seattle pioneers. [...]
We’ve been through a couple of weeks of interesting internet posts from the conceptual side of journalism: essays that shed light on aspects of the beast and of the emerging mediascape. You might want to set these aside for a quite evening’s read. 2020 vision: What’s next for news. Dan Conover at Xark has not [...]
Some recent posts on photojournalism, which I really should get into the habit of calling visual journalism. The best of photojournalism 2009. The winning entries in the annual Best of Photojournalism competition from the NPPA are going up as each category is decided. Some luscious stuff here. Tell a good story with images and sound. [...]
Maybe it’s because I grew up in an era where Western were a staple that I’ve been carrying around a wagon train metaphor for a bit. Those of a certain age will remember the wagon trains forming up on the outskirts of some dusty, woe-begotten town as the folk got set to head west for [...]
Trying to get caught up on my internet reading has led me to these: Why Newspapers Can’t Be Saved, but the News Can. This NY Times piece is a nice re-cap of two important, recent, must-reads on media. If you don’t have time for the originals — Clay Shirky’s Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable and [...]
For your reading pleasure: Columbia J-School walks backward onto the Web. Columbia is getting hammered over some ill-considered statements about teaching journalism. Scott Rosenberg’s piece on the dust-up is one of the best. The dead and the dying. I already tweeted a link to Robert Picard’s reality check on newspapers but it bears repeating. 4 [...]
A few things we all really need to keep in mind. • The death of several newspapers does not equal the death of all newspapers. • Economies go in cycles, up and down. When they go down, newspapers suffer along with everyone else. • The crisis for big newspaper chains is much more related to [...]
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