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10 things that could go into a community engagement editor’s job description
This Nieman Lab post about Voice of San Diego‘s search for an “engagement editor” got me thinking about all the things somebody in that kind of position could do — and just how far the potential extends. OK, sure, they’d … Continue reading
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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
Notes on Pew’s “where news comes from” study
A “where news comes from” study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism found that the vast majority of original reporting on six major news stories in Baltimore, Md., came from newspapers. A nice little ego boost, … Continue reading
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
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
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
“I was there when …”
Just a little late-night philosophizing. Twenty or thirty years from now, what will we tell our children, grandchildren or students about journalism in the first few decades of the 21st century? Will we look back with a wistful sigh and … Continue reading