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Looking at journalism with new eyes
Journalism educators must get out of the mindset that reporting will always be valuable. Executives must get out of the mindset that the difficulty and expense of journalism equals value. Journalists must get out of the mindset that their (our) skills are valuable in and of [Read More]
If every journalist is an online journalist, journalists who aren’t online don’t exist
Here’s a bombastic statement: There is absolutely no valid reason not to be online at this time. If you’re employed by a traditional media company (or indeed, many others), you might not be able to do everything online that you want because of policies and [Read More]
Curmudgeonry in journalism
Bryan Murley dismembers some journalism pundits’ recurring concerns that journalism education is ditching the basics for new-fangled technolgoy courses. Rogers believes there is too much technology in journalism schools. The title of his article posted in September: [Read More]
Talking to managers that aren’t the solution
Everybody has blind spots, handicaps in the way we see and perceive the world. I know people who are smart and knowledgeable and everything who will never bridge the gap between an email message and TCP/IP. Whether it’s just too foreign a concept or that they have a [Read More]
Newsroom change efforts often focus on wrong employee groups
Michele McLellan makes a very smart point in saying that leaders of efforts to change newsroom culture seem to think once they’ve won over the small group that tries new things, they’ve won the battle. Everett M. Rogers identified four basic groups of people in [Read More]
Niles’s five beats for new local sites
Robert Niles writes at OJR about the five beats he’d create were he starting a local news site: Food Education Labor Business Faith He also stipulates that this imaginary site would have zero wire copy or syndicated material and be totally locally produced and aimed [Read More]
