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Verification, context and “slow news”
As news sources proliferate and the methods used to deliver the news become faster and more efficient, twin problems arise. First, when every rumor and unconfirmed report can spread like wildfire almost as soon as it’s generated, how do you … Continue reading
Stop lamenting — the printed word isn’t going anywhere
In a New York Times column titled “Lament on the Fading Culture of the Printed Word,” Susan Dominus joins the ranks of those bemoaning the state of today’s media landscape: Over the years, how many people have read Joan Didion’s … Continue reading
Mark Luckie on useful pieces of free software
Mark Luckie of 10,000 Words lists free alternatives to these pieces of software: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Final Cut, Adobe Premiere, Pro Tools, Adobe Audition, Soundslides, Flash and Microsoft Office. Plus, some more suggestions in the comments.
#JournChat on content-sharing agreements
Another bonus to compiling tweets and separating them by question after the fact … it makes it much easier to keep conversational threads together. (Hopefully I didn’t piece any together in the wrong order.) journchat: Q9 What do you think … Continue reading
#JournChat on advice for smaller newsrooms
I took part in a #journchat session on Twitter for the first time tonight, and with more than 1,000 posts, it got a little chaotic. So, for my own future reference, I’m compiling the elements I found most interesting into blog posts.
This list was compiled using Publish2 and the Link Assist Wordpress plugin (after Greg Linch pointed me in the right direction).
journchat: Q10 What suggestions/advice would you offer to local (i.e. smaller) news outlets who are under-staffed/resourced? #journchat
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Confessions of a curmudgeon: Why I used to mock Twitter, and what changed my mind
I admit it — I can be a curmudgeon sometimes. I’m rarely the first to jump on a technological bandwagon. I didn’t own a CD player until 1995, nor a DVD player until 2002. I didn’t register a Twitter account … Continue reading
The death of narrative? Not really.
From Dan Conover comes a great essay titled “Narrative is dead! Long live narrative!” In case you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the piece Conover is responding to: a Washington Post story complaining that “in our modern click-and-skim world, there’s … Continue reading