Entries Tagged as 'news'

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Help readers make sense of the world

A concept that gets bandied about a great deal is that news organizations need to help people “make sense of the world.”  I’ve used the idea myself to show how news organizations need to realize they sell convenience, not news. We all kind of know what we mean by this concept, but it doesn’t have a [...]

Monday, January 4th, 2010

News organizations’ goal for 2010: Imagine world that doesn’t exist

The legacy press or the traditional media or whatever we’re calling newspapers these days has one main challenge for 2010. And it’s not finding a new business model, although, of course, that’s important, too.
But the main challenge has nothing to do with business plans. It has to do with vision. It has to do with [...]

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Save the Media’s top posts of 2009

I can hardly believe it has been more than a year since I started this blog. Back in those early days, I had hardly any readers. I was writing for myself, but bit by bit some of you started to read. I thank all of you for that. I appreciate your comments, your interest in [...]

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Student: Twitter helps me ’selectively receive’ news

Another post in my occasional series, “What the Heck Do You Do On Twitter.” This one is from Juliette Lynch, a senior photojournalism and international relations major at Syracuse University. She loves photography and storytelling, people and traveling, and of course, good conversation and coffee. She blogs at Que Me Mueve and Growing Up Girl.

I’m always [...]

Friday, December 11th, 2009

What Editor & Publisher’s demise says about how we consume news

I heard the news about Editor & Publisher closing as I hear many things these days – through Twitter. Patrick Thornton (jiconoclast) tweeted: “Does anything better symbolize the state of print media right now than the closure of E&P? Yes things are very bad.” At first, I hoped his tweet didn’t mean what I knew it [...]

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Journalists need to be objective and transparent

Over the past several months, much has been said about transparency being the new objectivity in journalism. As news organizations figure out whether they’ll use social media, and, if so, how they’ll use it, the phrase has been popping up more and more in the blogosphere.
I agree with that sentiment to a point, and I support [...]

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Student: ‘I keep up with the news better’ on Twitter

My occasional series  “What the Heck do You Do on Twitter?” is picking up some steam. Here’s the latest. But first, be sure to read the whole series, especially if you’re new to Twitter.
And if you’d like to be featured, e-mail me at savethemedia@yahoo.com or direct message me on Twitter.
Here is what Laura-Grisselle Aguayo, 20, [...]

Monday, October 19th, 2009

A journalist’s guide to the ethics of social media

A friend, Glenn Coin, has asked me to guest lecture about the ethics of social media for his Utica College journalism class, so I figured I’d blog my lesson plan to save time — and spread the message.
I thought the ethics of social media is a timely topic, given the debate over social media rules [...]

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Can journalists be human — and good at their jobs? Yes, I hope so

Here are some short-takes of interesting stuff about journalism and newspapers that I found around the blogosphere:
Social media rules: The buzz over how news organizations should use (or not use) social media surfaced last spring and then died down again only to come back with a vengeance in recent weeks. The blather gained more steam [...]

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Can Twitter bring people together? Part Two

David Pogue, technology columnist for The New York Times, recently visited my stomping grounds, Syracuse University, to talk about Twitter as part of a larger symposium on Cultural Diplomacy. I offered my newswriting students extra credit if they blogged about Pogue for Save the Media.
One savvy student, Paul Kloster, took me up on my offer. [...]

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