Sep
2
After almost a week of illness and frenzied prep for the semester that starts today, here are some items I’ve been holding on to:
- Frank Rich Sees The Future… Adrain Monck pulls the interesting stuff from a column by NYT’s Frank Rich on what the coverage of the recent DNC says about the present and future of media.
- 35 Places To Download Free, Legal MP3s – Sorry, RIAA! Because we all like music and we all like free stuff.
- Ink-Drained Kvetch. Wendy Parker, one of those long-tme journalists who has taken a newspaper buyout, has launched a blog to chart the course of her reinvention. Great title.
- An evolving model for editing. Deborah Howell of the Washington Post is the latest to put pixels to screen in support of copy editors. The headline is slightly misleading, but it’s worth a gander.
- NPR’s Andy Carvin on the Role of Social Media in Gustav Coverage. Andy’s latest, the Gustav Information Center, is another of those projects that points to one of the new ways of informing ourselves and each other.
- Stop the Presses. William Fouts covered a story too close to the heart: the closure of the daily Hamilty County Today. His video report is worth watching.
- The great journalism education debate. I’m going to want to return to this when I have a little more time, because what Patrick Thornton is writing about is near and dear to my heart.
- How blogging creates new opportunities for journalists. This, dear student and dear journalist, is why you should be blogging. Really. See also: Beat Blogging.
- onde estão as histórias? | where are the stories? Alexandre Gamela excerpts from and points to a piece that states the news business is killing stories. Much to ponder there.
- Lights! Camera! Traction! Sion Touhig has a new video/multimedia gig in Singapore. Sion is one of those digital storytellers you should keep an eye on.
- 10 ways that ad sales people can save newspapers. I know I came from the editorial side and this may seem a little like blasphemy, but the future of newspapers and their journalism really is in the hands of the business side.
- Ask deeper questions about financial conditions. Short version of Robert Picard’s mid-August post: be clear about what is really happening.
- Eight Things I Learned as a 40-Year-Old Intern. A nice, concise look at the realities of the newsroom, from a college prof who decided to do an internship.
BBC video training guide and the 5-shot rule. From the tech side, a link to BBC’s video tutorials. Related: 17 Video Tips, Learned on the Fly.
