Here is the transcript of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer‘s video interview with Washingtonpost.com Editor Jim Brady and BoingBoing.net Co-Editor Xeni Jardin about why Brady temporarily turned off PostBlog‘s comments function after receiving hundreds of abusive postings. The interview video is also…
ABC’s World News Now is the most popular news podcast.
Why news organization that operate anonymous and unmoderated discussion forums are being reckless and actually impede transparency. And how the news industry has fallen under the spell of a techno-utopian fallacy that says it can foster a renaissance in journalism, civic involvement, and comity simply by implementing new-media technologies.
My eulogy to Minolta cameras. They’ll stop being made this year.
I’m one of 23 Americans with a speech chosen for publication in the reference book ‘Representative American Speeches 2004-2005’. Its publishers chose my remarks from the ‘Reinventing the Local TV Station: Ground-Breaking Ideas from Innovative Thinkers’ panel during the Broadcast Education Association’s session at the National Association of Broadcasters annual conference last year.
Congratulations to Gary Kebbel (left) for being named Journalism Initiatives Program Officer for the the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, where he’s assigned to identify the people, processes and projects that will advance quality journalism in this century. Kebbel most…
The accomplished Mary Berner resigns from Fairchild Publications
Congratulations to my client Critical Mention Inc. for closing a $4 Million round of Series B financing last month! CIBC Capital Partners, Silicon Alley Venture Partners, Stonehenge Capital, plus other prior investors in Critical Mention, placed the money with the leading online…
“The people formerly known as the audience.” New York University Journalism Professor Jay Rosen, quoted in The New York Times about how new media has empowered people to correct traditional media.
I’m back at my desk for 2006. This will be a pivotal year for the news industry. The tipping point has been reached. Most news broadcasts and printed newspapers and news magazines finally realize that they are, if not yet dying, then dinosaurs in the tar pit. Meanwhile, the many upstarts who hope to replace those dinosaurs will this year be realizing that their solutions (such as just ‘citizen journalism’) are neither as functional or appropriate as they think. Stay tuned for an exciting year. Plus , I’m pleased to be entering my 27th year in the news industry.