The (shrinking) job board for broadcasters
Look at an actual job board at RTNDA@NAB. A sad sight. And not just because it is a traditional, cork-backed bulletin board. The question is: what are are the execs looking at, the buleting board on the wall or at the other wall, you know, in the social net?
Crashing on Twitter
Talk about Twitter as an emerging tool for breaking news reporting… first Mumbay and now this: plane crash play-by-play.
The newspaper is dead. Long live the newspaper (…or whatever)!
Funding journalism: the overall theme seems to be related to divorcing content from the platform, even in this question about business models.
An Ethics Seal for blogs
Calling for an Ethic Seal for blogs and news sites at the Ethics Panel at ONA. Seems like a good idea, mostly about transparency. Sounds a little bit like purity rings…
Newspapers eating the broadcaster’s lunch?
According to the study the researchers are presenting on media convergence, “newspapers are eating the broadcaster’s lunch” in the run for the web. Really?
Nobody Cares About Your Blog
A colleague tells me in an email that he cares about my blog. That’s a reference to a phrase I use as a shorcut to summarize my feelings about user generated content.
Listening to cockpit conversations
Meet The Aviatrix. She flies, she blogs, and she has inadvertently done away with an old notion involving bad news and journalism.
Amy’s Newspaper Challenge
My friend Amy Webb is angry at the newspaper industry and its seemingly contstant slashing of jobs and resources. She is now countering the wave of “tanking industry” stories with a challenge of her own. Being a child of TV, I do not yearn for the feel of paper in my hands as I know many people do. Frankly, I’d rather be browsing non-linearly than struggling with an unruly stack of newsprint. However, I do see the value that the newspaper culture can still offer to journalism.
