Contacts for cash at WaPo?
Proving the relevancy of the academic discipline I'm inventing, a scandal over WaPo (as reported by Truthout.org) has blown up over the last week.According to a Thursday, July 2nd, Politico article...
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In honor of Bastille Day, an "important time to recall justice and equity," here is a look at some current info on French journalism....France has three major dailies: Le Monde, Le Figaro, and...
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Some quotes about the media....Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben HechtJournalism...
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Don't tell her this, but until today, I'd never heard of Kara Swisher.I followed a link to one of her columns on the site All Things Digital from MediaBistro's daily digest. First I noticed that there...
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'Twould be remiss of the Philosophy Kat, I think, not to philosophize on Bill Clinton's recent triumph. But first, a note on the philosophizing itself.Today I spoke with an...administrative person,...
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Oh apologies.I would say WaPo seems to be acting like an irresponsible youth, but it's too old. Can I say maybe it's having a senior moment...or would I have to apologize over a beer?Two of the...
View ArticleNegotiating with terrorists.
Smack at the barbed-wire-surrounded heart of conflict resolution, this issue could sober up anybody, even at a Friday happy hour after the end of a legislative session.The questions at hand: Did the...
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Thought for the day:"However you define journalism — a term I generally hate anyway but have no substitute coinage for — it will still be practiced by human beings who need to pay rent and purchase...
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What's up, Internet?Don't look at me in that tone of voice. It's only been eight months. Do you know how little time that is, in the scheme of things? That's not even enough time to pop out a kid! Or a...
View ArticleOn leaving Facebook
I miss Facebook.A week ago today, I finally got fed up with "Facebook drama" - a phenomenon to which, after my five years on Facebook, I thought I might be immune. Until a couple of months ago, when I...
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This column originally appeared in the Daily Local News.Mirror or lamp?Well, hurry up, decide. Which should news be: a mirror or a lamp?Often, I've heard comments that so-and-so just watches or reads...
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At my first staff meeting with my interns yesterday, I mentioned some information from the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell describing how opportunity works.I told them: age matters. You are at the...
View ArticleLinking and learning
Aggregation Day!I'm looking for reactions to these stories in the theme of what it means for digital news. If you were designing a news website, what would you keep in mind from these stories? What...
View ArticleJournalism is a service, not a product
"Media companies are ongoing victims of the evolving user paradigm, because we spend our efforts trying to duplicate the money machine known as order-taking advertising. We mistakenly think that the...
View ArticleWhat makes newspapers different...
...when they're not papers anymore? Last week, I was offered a full-time position at the Daily Local News. I accepted - and Saturday, before I had even begun officially started that position, news of...
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The last six months have seemed to go faster than any period of my life before now, I think. My transition to full-time reporter has been fraught with wrenches thrown into the works. The two homicides...
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When I first hit the newsroom, I thought a lot about the media world as a whole. And one early question that struck me was: Why isn't there any certification for journalists? I agree that a broad-based...
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I know, I know, I should be asleep. But I've had quite a day...and I'll leave it at that for now, but my mind is buzzing.Today I received an email charging me to "help us (the Journal Register Company)...
View ArticleSomewhere shy of 100 percent
As promised, a full blog post on Jay Rosen's suggestion, "The 100 percent solution.""It works like this: First, you set a goal to cover 100 percent of… well, of something. In trying to reach the goal...
View ArticleThe roles of the social consumer = ...middle school?
Credit: Valve Interactive This made me think of just one thing...middle school. Hey, psychoanalyze me all you want; it's probably justified. And maybe it's just that "peer" is right at the top. But...
View ArticleVictory Collaborative
To depart a bit from the strict topic of journalism...please join me for (or check out a replay of) some live blogging from a story I wrote about this week: Beer and poetry at Victory Brewing...
View ArticleDavid Yezzi at Victory Collaborative
First video of what will ultimately be several from last weekend's Victory Collaborative (to be followed by blogging about learning to edit video solely on the iPad). Enjoy!
View ArticleCharlie Manuel on gratitude to veterans
The Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center has been the source for half a dozen fun stories for me these past few months - and I'm often the only journalist to show up for them.Although they have...
View ArticleJournal Register Co. IdeaLab TweetChat
Trying something new: This "chat" will feature only a live feed of a TweetChat amongst the Journal Register Co. IdeaLab members, other JRC employees, journalists, and so ons.<a...
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