Save the Media

Tweet Seems like it’s a good time for some short takes from my jaunts around the blogosphere. Here are some posts that I found interesting. Hope you will, too. Is news like bottled water? Tim Windsor has a thought-provoking post at Nieman Journalism Lab today, noting that bottled-water producers know something newspapers do not: How [...]

Tweet If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times: “Well, I don’t get how Twitter can help me because I’m only one person and only have so many followers?” I heard this common lament again this week, and rather than get exasperated, I figured it was time for another explanation of how [...]

Tweet I’ve written before about how I believe newspapers need to change their thinking to solve the problems plaguing our industry. They need to change their thinking so they can innovate. But to get there, I believe there are two fundamental changes in newspapers’ organizational thinking that are essential. Abandon the factory mentality. Encourage leadership, not management. Abandon the factory [...]

Tweet Well, now that I’ve discussed The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Co.’s  rules for social media to death, it’s time to take a peek at other newspapers’ policies. (Hats off to Steve Buttry for a post that alerted me to The New York Times’ and The Washington Post’s policies.) The New York Times: The New [...]

Tweet Today, I’m turning my blog over to Jill Hurst-Wahl, a professor of practice in Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies, president of Hurst Associates, Ltd., and a frequent blogger/speaker. She blogs at Digitization 101 and eNetworking101.    I “met” Jill when I interviewed her for a story I wrote about the proliferation of mommy [...]

Tweet Updated: Be sure to check the links at bottom of post to other voices on this issue. This is an open letter to the Dow Jones and Co. in response to the rules it released to its staff at The Wall Street Journal and its other publications on how to use — or not use [...]

Tweet Over the past two weeks, I’ve blogged about Jeff Jarvis’ book, “What Would Google Do?” as has my guest blogger, friend and colleague, Amber Smith. Both of us distilled ideas from the book, applying them to our experience at newspapers. This week, Google itself testified at a U.S. Senate Subcommittee that looked at the [...]

Tweet Here are some short-takes of  journalism-related finds from around the blogosophere: Targeted traffic: In some ways the old days of ignorance were bliss. You wrote a story. You assumed people read it. You were happy. Now, thanks to stats on blogs and online stories, you can find out how many (or few) people are [...]

Tweet Today, I’m turning over my blog to a friend and colleague, Amber Smith, Health and Fitness editor at The Post-Standard in Syracuse. She and I share a love of journalism, new media and connecting with readers and often swap ideas. (Check out her Health and Fitness blog.) She turned me onto City University of [...]