Sep
28
I have 19 browser tabs open but I’m not going to burden you with all of them:
- Call it the case of the annoyingly overused newspaper lede. William Hartnett calls out the call-it lede, adding to the ever-expanding list of deadly dull lede clichés. The big problem with all these clichés is that when we only saw one or two newspapers a day (or week), the rot wasn’t as evident.
- Reuters: LA Times accentuates its dot-comosity. Journalism students (and journalists): If you don’t see the future in news items like this — the LA Times boosting its digital operations by 100 people, many of them from the print side — you’re not paying sufficient attention.
- Observations on blog buffets apply to newspaper data centers, too. One more from Mr. Hartnett, this time picking up on complaints about how newspaper segregate blogs, and extending the complain to the much wider area of newspaper content as a whole.
- This Is YouTube Material. A little thought provoking by William Powers on what YouTube has wrought and how major media is buying into/feeding that. Does the fact that it’s viral really make it newsworthy? Via Jim Romenesko.
- Shooting footage raises questions. This is horrfying: Reuters is showing smuggled-out footage from Burma that appears to show Japanese photojournalist Kenji Nagai being shot at close range, while the Burmese dictatorship is claiming he was killed by a stray bullet. Side note: I find it interesting that you can pause Reuters video reports but not the preroll ads.
