Look at this photo (unfortunately a low-res screencap) for what's currently right and wrong about journalism: Here's my take. The two women in the foreground are doing the work of a newsroom, …
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Flowcharting the trolls
This is great. Leave it to the Air Force to bring some semblance of order to a process (HT: Dave Fleet) - monitoring comments and discussions and deciding which to engage with - that has more than …
Who are the digital natives? And what do they want?
Anyone in the business of trying to communicate in a substantial way with younger people - and while this generally falls into the subset of "Anyone With A Web Site that's not aarp.org," I'm thinking …
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A newspaper journalist offers practical online advice to her colleagues
My name is Gina Chen. I’ve been a newspaper journalist for 20 years, and I’m worried — but excited — about the future of the industry I love. Gina Chen is really no different than the thousands of …
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The story so far: I actually want the news business to succeed
So here's how these things go. You write 85+ posts over the course of a handful of months. Some of them are are considered, thoughtful pieces, many with even a modicum of original reporting. Others …
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Pros vs. Pajamas: The trope that will not die.
The zombie lives, this time in an op-ed in the WSJ from the Newark Star-Ledger's Paul Mulshine, who conflates the shout of "Copy!" and the pounding of six-part carbons with some golden age of "real" …
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