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Why my new year’s resolution is to learn about programming
I’ve found myself quoting Steve Buttry a lot lately, particularly his posts about innovation in the news business. In an August 2009 post titled “Newspapers’ original sin: Not failing to charge but failing to innovate,” he wrote: The disastrous error … Continue reading
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
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
Stories vs. content
Katie Rogers of Medill News Service writes: Peter Perl, assistant managing editor for personnel at The Washington Post, visited our newsroom and didn’t exactly sugarcoat the current state of the news business. (Just suffice it to say we didn’t file … 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 →