Category: journalism
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Journalism — How Expensive Must It Be?
There is a lot of angst within the journalism (and journalism-curious) community lately, as there have been a controversial suggestion that the best way to reinvent journalism would be to make it a nonprofit, charitable endeavor. One organization, the Voice of San Diego, gives a glimpse of what hard-hitting journalism can look like under a…
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You Know?
Ever since I was quoted as saying something along the lines of “there’s a lot of stuff out there” in an interview with the Toledo Blade, I have been aware of the usual policy of cleaning up quotations from interviews to best represent what the subject was saying. We all pepper our speech with ums…
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Bailing Out Newspapers?
All across America, newspapers are faltering, cutting corners, cutting circulation. But healthy journalism is important to our public life. What to do? One Connecticut lawmaker sees a way to help. In these days of bailout after bailout (steel is getting into the act now), why shouldn’t we help newspapers? According to Reuters: Connecticut lawmaker Frank…
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Reading With Their feet
Monday I wrote about the crumbling “paper” part of the news business. Here’s more evidence. My hometown newspapers, the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press (I was a Freep reader growing up) are curtailing their home delivery to just three days per week: Thursday, Friday and Sunday. David Hunke, chief executive of the company that…
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Crumbling Paper
Seth Godin points out that bloggers aren’t going to be winning any Pulitzers — unless they are posting at major news sites already. He says: So, Tom Friedman can win a well-deserved prize for writing what is essentially a blog for the NY Times, but if he goes off on his own, he’s out. What…
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Another Episode In The Death Of Trust In Journalism
Lots of people like to talk about the death of media 1.0. But I like to think of it as the death of journalism as a fancy profession. Here’s another example. Former MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams has created a new PR venture called Abrams Research. Nothing new there. But this one has a twist.…
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"Hyperlocal" Journalism And Community
Many of my friends and readers of my national commentary know that I am also the founder of a web site called Rockville Central, which is an example of what the Knight Citizen News Network would call “hyperlocal journalism.” Rockville Central is a citizen-produced, all-volunteer local blog that is intentionally designed to embody the kinds…
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"Hyperlocal" Journalism And Community
Many of my friends and readers of my national commentary know that I am also the founder of a web site called Rockville Central, which is an example of what the Knight Citizen News Network would call “hyperlocal journalism.” Rockville Central is a citizen-produced, all-volunteer local blog that is intentionally designed to embody the kinds…
Brad Rourke 