Dec
12
Still grading, still reading the media news.
- Please just give us the news and spare us the anecdotal lead. Like Will Shuck, I love a well-written anecdotal lede, but not page after page of stories that start with them.
- Zoom H2. Transom has a review of the cute and tiny Zoom H2 digital audio recorder which comes, uniquely, with four built-in mics. It gets good marks for the built-ins, much lower ones for external mics, which makes it a little less useful for journalists.
- BusinessWeek reorganizes editorial staff, lays off a dozen. And yet, in the Jim Romenesko blurb, it says this: “Editor-in-chief Stephen Adler says in a memo that newsstand sales were up 25% in the latest report.” ales up, staff down. Huh?
- Django Book has shipped — and, thoughts on the next book. Adrian Holovaty announces publication of his new book and offers his thoughts on what he wants to do next: “I want to take a shot at writing a manual, a manifesto, a practical guidebook to this emerging discipline of database-driven Web journalism. It would be a combination of high-level strategy and low-level technique, probably split cleanly into two parts (one for the suits, one for the non-suits).” Where do I preorder?
- Newspaper Downturn More Cyclical Than Secular; 8.9 Percent of ‘08 Revs Digital: Analyst. Thousands and thousands of journalists and news execs are hoping the bones are being properly read here.
- Crunks 2007: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections. Regret the Error has a year-end look back at the year in media fumbles, foibles and corrections. Scary fun.
- Sell Your Videos: OurMedia.org to Launch Bid4Vid. News of an Our Media-related “open global marketplace for video production where video buyers post jobs and producer members bid to complete those projects.” New times, new career opportunities.
