I frequently write about newspapers’ experience with the new medium because theirs has been the longest experience. The New York Times launched the world’s first online edition in 1974 with LexisNexis, followed by many magazines and other newspapers on that professional online…
The ironically named ‘BEHOLD THE POWER OF US‘ is a single-day online news industry digerati calvacade, organized by the American Press Institute and held at the headquarters of the Associated Press. I should appeal to the FEW OF THEM in the media…
I never thought I’d call a daily newspaper beautiful. I’ve always considered daily news periodicals to be grubby Industrial Era products cheap paper products fabricate by clanking contraptions that melted lead into hardened cylinders faced with typeset characters and that inked…
Speaking of The Guardian, it’s online wing is beta-testing a new service called Been There. Lloyd Shepherd. the deputy director of digital publishing, blogs that, ” Essentially, it’s a platform for people to recommend things they like to do in places they…
Congratulations to online journalist and software engineer Adrian Holovaty, whose chicagocrime.org today won the $10,000 Grand Prize in the Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism. Created as a public service by Chicago resident Holovaty, with design input from Wilson Miner, chicagocrime.org lets…
As some readers of this site know, I’m contributing (and founded) a Corante group weblog entitled Rebuilding Media. Among its contributors is Bob Cauthorn. Online Journalism Review Journalist David LaFontaine wrote that a Cauthorn speech inspired him to write an article (Old-school…