Save the Media

Imagine a news Web site that’s a portal to everything people used to read in newspapers plus a bunch of things that newspapers were never able to provide. A cool idea, I think, but first it requires newspapers to embrace two provocative ideas:

The mass audience is dead.
The product of newspaper Web sites is not news.

No [...]

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 to sell [...]

I’m in the midst of a series of blog posts explaining how journalists can use social-networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Linked In. But I’ve decided to interrupt the series temporarily for a very important post: Questions about new media that journalists have asked me over the past several months.
I feel this is crucial [...]

I’m going to depart from my usual tips today, and give a pep talk. Why? Because I need one.
This has been a particularly tough week in a series of difficult months years for journalists.  This week was the first time that journalists I know personally lost their jobs. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer joined the list of [...]

I know I promised my next blog post was going to be about my hopes for journalism in the coming year, but I got a bit sidetracked today. ( I’ll be back to the hopes before the year is out.)
A colleague e-mailed me this morning with the most delightful and unexpected news. Two bloggers, both [...]