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I can understand the reasons for it, but I think cutting newsroom copy editors is a bad idea. Yes, newspapers need to cut costs to keep going – or, more properly, to keep profits at levels that make investors and owners happy. Yes, they need to preserve reporters, because they need to fill the newspaper, [...]
Anyone who has spent more than a couple of hours online knows that dipping into the comment sections at some news site – okay, at most news sites – is like diving head-first into a septic tank. A number of newspapers seem to prevent comments on contentious articles, and at least one has killed it [...]
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A couple of tweets from this afternoon: The 800-word story is dead; go short; go long; or even better, go visual (with photos and charts) – @zseward #cjfjtalk — Craig Saila (@saila) February 1, 2013 …and… How to stand out: high-quality long-form journalism, or short-hit social-style stories. Middle stuff (800-words) is dissolving #cjfjtalk — dana [...]
The age of the media paywall is (almost) fully upon us and it’s has me doing arithmetic. If I had to put a formula to it, it would be something like x = ? + ? + ?, where x is the amount of media money I’m willing to spend and the questions marks are [...]
I realize it’s been a while. Stuff happens. Twitter, for one. Real life, for another. Despite the social media whirl, blogging isn’t dead yet and it feels like it’s time to devote some attention to doing some writing, teasing out some deeper thoughts, performing some self-promotion… Speaking of which… Over the break between semesters, I [...]
Note: Since publication, I have corrected a couple of typos. You saw the news today: Postmedia has chopped at least two dozen jobs, killed some of its newspapers’ Sunday edition, temporarily suspended Monday publication of The National Post and stopped printing on most holidays. You may have noticed, in the coverage, the reasons: the company’s [...]
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Over the past year, I’ve aimed to shoot a good photo a day. I’ve missed five or so along the way for a variety of reasons – illness, too many other demands, laziness – and the photos have not always been good, but many are. I’ve shot with two different iPhones, three different Canons and, [...]
The Tascam iM2 — a set of stereo condenser mics with pre-amp that plug into iPhones and iPads — that I bought when it was first announced, arrived earlier this week but I didn’t get a chance to try it out until today, when I gave it a very quick workout. First impressions are that [...]
In the last-but-one class of the Storytelling course I taught this semester, I shared some ideas for doing better journalism. I’m sure none of these is original; I’ve likely stolen them from several sources. Find inspiration: There are many people, blogs and tweet streams I follow for the inspiration they provide. Brainpickings, by Maria Popova, [...]
2011 has been a year for photography. I’ve been taking a photo a day (well, almost every day; I skipped a couple here and there), and posting the results at my Tumblr blog. It’s been interesting, fun and challenging, and I’ve learned a bunch along the way. More on that later. Now it’s almost 2012 [...]
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