Dave Winer talks with News.com today about early blogs, his move to Harvard for a fellowship there (only 10 blogs at Harvard? that can’t include the student body, can it?), and how blogging is supplanting some of the roles traditionally performed by mainstream journalists. It’s a worthwhile read, of course, since Dave is one of […]
Citizen media
Q&A with PBS’ Online NewsHour
Longtime readers of this blog may recall that I’ve done a couple of Q&As with the Media Watch unit of PBS’ Online NewsHour on the subject of online journalism, back in 1999 and 2001. (I’ve archived them on my site.) A producer there approached me a month ago to do a reality check on the […]
How weblogs fit in the media landscape
Julie Moran Alterio of The Journal News of Westchester County, NY, interviewed me by email in December for a piece on blogging, which appeared Sunday. The main piece, Web of blogs, is here. For the sidebar, Blogs blur line with journalism, Julie interviews me, Dan Gillmor, Rebecca Blood and Paul Boutin. A second sidebar looks […]
How the Internet is reshaping journalism
Liselotte, a 23-year-old journalism student at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, wrote to ask questions for a research paper on new approaches to journalism and publishing. Here are her questions and my answers: To date, what have been the most significant changes in journalism since the arrival of the Internet? I’ll name three: 1) […]