A must read post from Scripps’ very own Katie Allison Granju on how print advertising is just going away. I can tell you from personal experience that this is true when it comes to advertising revenue sustaining newspapers. She talks about what I wrote about earlier this week. However, I was surprised by the strongly [...]
Paper Cuts
Want to see an interactive map tracking newspaper layoffs around the country? Sure you do.
Blogger Perspective Of ONA Forum
Ken Marrero of Tennessee’s News Platoon and author of Blue Collar Muse gives his perspective of last week’s Online News Association’s seminar. Because while the seminar wasn’t aimed at bloggers per se, it made great strides in welcoming and appointing bloggers to their rightful place in news and reporting – in journalism. While the seminar’s [...]
First Impressions From The ONA Forum
The Online News Association’s conference on Friday at the Freedom Forum in Nashville was not only a wonderful resource regarding the future of where journalism is headed, but in many ways it was a blogger meetup. Remember those words. I can recall going to other journalism conferences where online endeavors were only discussed with a [...]
‘If Your Mother Says She Loves You, Check It Out’
The one thing about citizen journalism which I want to address is that with the title of journalism, there also should be a responsibility on verifying the facts and always err to the side of attribution. Anonymous sources decrease the legitimacy of your information if that’s all you use. I don’t, and have never as [...]
How To Make Blogging Pay
I’m not even going to do a pull quote here. Just go read Katie Allison Granju’s blog right now.
Why Is The Internet Bad For Newspapers?
Nathan Baker has a question. Why is the Internet bad for Journalism? If you totally disagree, I get it. I did too, till I started thinking about it. If you are lost, here is what I’m looking for: BAD ANSWER “Newspapers are dying.” False. The Internet is “changing” newspapers. GOOD ANSWER “The lack of investigatory [...]
Dang Skippy
This month’s Carnival of Journalism is about the theme of “How to support journalism online financially.” Maybe all of us should go to Jack Lail’s blog right now. He has a ton of links as well. Bingo!
The News Cycle Has Changed
Lindsey works in art design in the deadwood business. She has written one of the best posts I’ve seen on her love of being in the newspaper business and her fears as she watches the ongoing bad news of her chosen profession. Things are bad. Real, real bad. And they’re not going to get better. [...]
Collaborative Efforts
Would this work? The Ash spills got me thinking about this even more. There was a blogger who was going to head over to Kingston to do some coverage and I vaguely recall that they were paper-affiliated. Anyway, so they’re over there and so are other small paper folks and it occurred to me. Twitter & blogs [...]