Save the Media

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 blogs [...]

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 — [...]

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 future [...]

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 reading [...]

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 New [...]

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 do [...]

“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 much [...]

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 unable [...]

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 good [...]

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 to [...]