Save the Media

Time for short-takes: interesting posts from my travels around the blogosphere. Branding yourself: No, I’m not talking cattle branding here. I’m talking about branding yourself as a journalist, as in getting your name out there. Journalists today need to market themselves. People need to be able to find your name, your blog, your Linked-In profile [...]

Time for some short-takes of interesting stuff about the transformation of journalism from around the blogosphere: Golden Age: A guest post by Tim Gleason, dean of  the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, on Oregonlive.com is getting quite a buzz around the Twitterverse. He argues that journalism isn’t dead, though the business model [...]

Here’s another round of short takes of tidbits I’ve found around the blogosphere that could be useful to journalists dipping a toe — or hopefully the whole foot –  into the new media waters. Enjoy. Self-correction: If you’re a Twitter fan, you may have heard this week that the Dalai Lama was on Twitter and [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about exactly what an online-first newsroom is. And I’ve come up with six points, although I don’t think that tells the whole story. So I sense another series coming on. In today’s post, I’ll discuss six attributes that form the foundation of an online-first newsroom.  Next post, [...]

Time for another Short Takes:  Five articles worth reading that relate to journalism as it transforms. Are staff cuts good news? That’s the provocative question Mathew Ingram asks at the Nieman Journalism Lab. This is the kind of post that can’t help but raise emotions. Pretty much anyone in journalism today knows someone who has [...]