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The news as food: An analogy for the citizen journalism debate
Jay Rosen recently interviewed Dirck Halstead, editor and publisher of The Digital Journalist, about that publication’s December 2009 editorial, titled “Let’s Abolish ‘Citizen Journalists’.” Others have done a far better job than I can of addressing the editorial’s arguments (see … Continue reading
90K print jobs lost? What’s a “print job”?
Gawker says: “Nearly 90,000 print jobs have been lost in the last year.” I say: “What’s a print job?” Newspapers and magazines are considered part of the print publishing category. Which makes sense to a large extent. But I suspect … Continue reading
“Raise your hand if you’ve ever been in the paper”
My boss from 2002 to 2005 — Jeff Wilson, publisher of The Fairfield Ledger — had a question he would always ask when groups of children toured the newspaper offices. It was this: “How many of you have ever had … Continue reading
5 things I’ve learned about online story comments
This post was originally written for GateHouse Media’s GHNewsroom.com. 1. Comment threads can be part of our journalism. We’re accustomed to thinking of a story as a complete package: We went out, we discovered what there is to know, and … Continue reading →