Do you miss the Camel Cigarettes advertising card just below the anchor's head on the evening news? How about long-form testimonial ads for hair tonic in your newspaper? Mitch Miller-style singalong …
Crowdsourcing just got real
Today is election day in the U.S. And, for social media, it's a signal day as well as people across the country report their votes by text, by video, by photo and by tweet. The effort that strikes …
Thinking of the journalist as a DJ instead of a curator.
Jeff Jarvis points to what may be a better analogy for the role of a modern journalist: A nightclub DJ. Previously, I'd suggested journalists need to become a curator, but I agree that the messier, …
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New Business Models for News: Rebuilding the Newsroom
At the CUNY summit last week, I was assigned to the group that looked at rethinking our newsrooms to meet the current financial imperatives. Or, as someone wryly named us, "the cost-cutting …
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We still talk about circulation because circulation still counts
In a letter posted to Romenesko (no comments allowed, otherwise I'd just post this there), Matt Baldwin of MediaNews Group wonders why there's so much focus on reporting declining reporting newspaper …
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“Newspapers? Newspapers? Nah, doesn’t ring a bell.”
This is one of those non-scientific polls that, nonetheless, is going to jam a shiv in the heart of anyone hoping there's as much love for the printed paper among "the people" as there is within a lot …
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