By Kirk Varner (Crossposted with permission from Kirk Varner at Out of the Newsroom) A brief preamble: The following is an idea. It’s not necessarily a great idea, though some might think it is. Others will think that it is stupid and completely unworkable. Fair enough. But these days, maybe another stupid idea is just [...]
While The One Man Band Played On
By Kirk Varner With the budget slashing and staff decimations that have hit newsrooms all across the land as 2008 has ended and 2009 has begun, there has been a lot of nervously toned chatter about the rise of the near-mythical “One Man Band” as a panacea to all of the industry’s problems. One might [...]
The Elephant In The Room By Mike Sechrist
Anyone doubting the negative effects of the internet and the nation’s economic meltdown on our local media needs to look no further than Nashville’s Tennessean. The once hefty and satisfyingly readable metropolitan newspaper is now a mere shadow of itself, its size and bulk no more than that of a neighborhood throwaway. Not as visible [...]