Save the Media

Tweet It’s time for some short-takes: stuff I find interesting around the blogosphere for journalist bloggers: Blogger tip — be alert: I’ve visited this topic before, but it warrants repeating. You can’t blog in your niche well unless you’re reading what others are saying and know what’s going on in the news. One way to [...]

Tweet “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert Einstein When I read this Einstein quote (which was posted in an office at my kids’ elementary school), I thought: Wow! Einstein could have said this today about the newspaper industry. To me the quote sums up so [...]

Tweet If you tried to reach this blog recently and couldn’t, my apologizes. There was some sort of technical problem with my web hoster, which is now fixed. Then one of my plugins was hanging up the site, but I’ve removed it, so things are good. I think. But in the meantime, you may have been either [...]

Tweet I went to see “State of Play” yesterday mainly because I’m a sucker for anything with Russell Crowe in it, and I love newspaper-themed movies. (Professional hazard, I guess.)  I thoroughly enjoyed the movie despite its stereotypical and sensationalized depictions of journalism, but that’s not why I’m bringing it up. This isn’t a review. I think the movie provides a [...]

Tweet Today, I’m not blogging as a journalist. I’m taking off that hat and writing as a news consumer — a regular person who has been devouring newspapers since I was about 6 and read my parents’ daily delivery of the New York Daily News. Dear newspapers: I know. I know. Times are tough. You’re cutting news hole because next [...]

Tweet Today, I’m turning over my blog to a guest blogger. Jackie Hai, is a freelance videographer and Web designer who will graduate next month with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and philosophy from UMass Amherst. She blogs at Convergence Commons about the changing role of the media. Her blog is among the many in [...]

Tweet I haven’t done short takes in a while, so here are some interesting finds from around the blogosphere: The value of small talk: Steve Yelvington has the best explanation I’ve read so far for the value of social media. He compares the gabbing over Twitter, for example, that so many find banal to the [...]

Tweet When I blogged last week about whether blogging is journalism, several people — through comments on Twitter and this blog — raised a key concept: Well, if blogging isn’t journalism, what is journalism? That seemed a fair question, so I decided to consider it. First, I crowd sourced the idea, asking my Twitter followers [...]

Tweet The shooting in Binghamton, NY, Friday left 14 people dead, including the gunman who apparently killed himself, in a community center filled with people from other countries who were learning English. The news is tragic, and I feel for the families of all those involved. But I think the story provides a compelling example [...]

Tweet I just bought a Flip-Video camera, so I thought it might be fun to let all of you get to know me a bit more through vlogging — video blogging. This is only the third video I’ve shot, so please be kind. It’s not art. Not even close. But I’m not showing this video [...]