Archive for 2008
Fire up the time machine – what would you do?
If you ran into yourself 10 years ago, what would you tell yourself about journalism? If you could go back 10 years and talk to your news organization’s editorial board and publisher, what would you tell them? Now take that advice and apply it to today. It’s only too late if we give up.
The online ethics seal: together we can be more transparent
At ONA 08 and a week later at Poynter Seminar on ethics, I talked about my online ethics seal idea. The idea is very simple — to form a series of ethics seals that Web sites, blogs and news organizations could embed on their Web sites. I want these seals to be in the same [...]
So Sarah Palin doesn’t read newspapers… Who does?
Yes, in a recent interview with Katie Couric, Governor Palin was unable to name one newspaper or magazine that she reads. Some take that to mean that she doesn’t read newspapers. Somehow that it is a bad thing. In reality, that just makes Palin in touch with the average American — who also doesn’t read [...]
Fake LA Times staffers better than real LA Times staffers
Former and current LA Times staffers have taken it upon themselves to not only blame but also sue Sam Zell for their current predicament. As if it was Zell’s hubris that led them to think they were a national (international?!?!) paper. As if it was Zell’s ignorance that led the Times to have a horrible [...]
Are these the beat reporters pushing the practice the most?
I’ve been thinking about who are the best bloggers? The requirement isn’t who runs the best blog on the Web, but rather which beat reporters are innovating the most on the Web with online tools like social networking and blogging. Am I missing people? I realize that this list is mostly of beat reporters from [...]
If you could start from scratch would you build the same product?
I was just at Cleveland.com, and I was looking at all the new features the site has launched recently. Certainly, the new features are upgrades over what used to be there. The new design is a step forward. The site, however, is a hodgepodge in many ways. A lot of Cleveland.com doesn’t make sense. Different [...]
Supply and demand is a bitch
I have some lessons from ONA 08 over at BeatBlogging.Org (version 2.0 nonetheless), and I wanted to highlight the supply and demand part of the post: This is an issue facing journalism on the Web and not just beat bloggers. Right now, there is simply more supply of written content than there is of demand [...]
I have ethics, yo
Yes, it is true, I’ll be at the Kent State/Poynter Workshop on blogging and ethics tomorrow. I just wanted to clear this up really quick. I do have ethics. Jay Rosen contends that if blogging didn’t have ethics, it would have failed. But it hasn’t failed. So what does that tell you? I’ll be tweeting [...]
Get your daily beast from Tina Brown
Perhaps the biggest revelation from ONA 08 is that Tina Brown is forming a new Web startup dedicated to celebrating the life and times of the world’s great beasts. I think the site is a great idea. First, everyone loves beasts, especially daily ones. How Brown went from being editor of Vanity Fair and The [...]
ONA 08 review and thoughts
ONA 08 ended two days ago, and I spent all of yesterday recovering. It was a great time, and I met a lot of talented and interesting people. Maybe if I met less people, I would have gotten more work done yesterday. The Good: The sessions — The key to any good conference are the [...]