Vin Crosbie of Digital Deliverance notes an anniversary that should be marked today (reprinted from the online-news list): Today we enter the second decade of multimedia publishing on the Internet. Ten years ago yesterday, a group of students at the University of Illinois released a freeware program called Mosaic that gave the previously plain-text World […]
Photojournalism ethics during war
Peter Howe, who covered civil wars in Northern Ireland and El Salvador as a photojournalist and who wrote Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer, has an op-ed article in USA Today about the editorial choices involved in deciding which photos to publish in a newspaper to tell the story of the war. […]
How a daily college newspaper became independent
Twenty-five years ago today, when I was a young pup, I organized and chaired a major journalism convention at Rutgers University that paved the way for the university’s college daily newspaper, the Targum, to become an independent publication. Lesley Stahl, Daniel Schorr and George Gallup were just a few of the speakers who came out […]
Reason or treason? ‘Free speech has limits’
This must be Southern Old Media day here at New Media Musings. Besides the Richmond Times Dispatch, I’m also quoted in a thoughtful piece in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Reason or treason? Free speech has limits, advocates of war argue. (Incidentally, I couldn’t find this story because the piece-o’-crap Access Atlanta site has no editorial search […]
Blogs: flavor of moment or publishing revolution?
I’m quoted in today’s Richmond (Virg.) Times Dispatch in a story titled Blogs: flavor of moment or publishing revolution? I met the author, McGregor McCance, at the session Rusty Foster and I gave on weblogs at the new media conference in Berkeley the other week. Here’s the exchange McGregor and I had by email; about […]