Dec
2
From the reader from the past few days:
- I am the Future of Journalism Contest. Explain why you are the future of journalism and win cash and a job. Interesting way to survey the field and find a good employee, methinks.
- Is print dead? Nope, says Scott Merrill of CrunchGear, a somewhat surprising source for a defense of ink on paper. A thoughtful piece.
- J-Students Take Multiplatform Approach to City Politics. Alfed Hermida has a detailed look at the extensive work — and learning — UBC’s graduate school journalism students did in covering our city’s recent election.
- Commodity websites, a Bad Thing. Newspapers are commodities, journalism isn’t. Neither are functionality and usability, writes Marc Matteo, in arguing that newspapers continue to take the wrong approach when it comes to the online world.
- Paul Godfrey takes helm of National Post. The new president and CEO of Canada’s money-losing National Post, is a long-time member of CanWest’s board of directors, former publisher and chief executive of the Toronto Sun and Sun Media Corp., and current president and chief executive of the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team.
- US: Daily Tribune to print only four days a week. Detroit daily goes from six days to four, promises to update website seven days a week. Note: there’s a difference between updating a website and publishing on the web.
- Adobe wows with some video technology. Some experimental stuff from the Adobe labs. Not yet in any products, but if it arrives, these things will make screwing with reality in video as easy as it is to screw with reality in Photoshop.
- Shopping for readers: a proposal for local news. Tim Windsor riffs on an Amy Gahran comment and wonders why local newspapers don’t include local shopping news (best deals, sales, etc.) among their coverage. I can think of one reason: a high potential to make some potential advertisers unhappy enough to go away.
