Bloggers routinely criticize newspapers as old media, hopelessly old school, for their insistence that journalists not reveal their personal beliefs and biases on any issue remotely connected to what they’re covering. Where’s the transparency? they ask. I agree, to some extent. I don’t know exactly where the line should be drawn. But I’m fairly certain […]
Media
For newspapers, the future is in databases of local info
I’d missed this at Terry Heaton’s blog the other day: The future is in databases of local information (part 3,672) The American Press institute issued its long-awaited report on the future of the newspaper industry this week, and guess what? The key recommendation is something I’ve been touting for a long time: that the path […]
Doc’s cure for the newspaper blues
Linux magazine senior editor and super-blogger Doc Searls has a prescription for what ails newspapers. Here’s his 10-point plan, which he explains at length here: 1. Stop giving away the news and charging for the archives. 2. Start featuring archived stuff on the paper’s website. 3. Link outside the paper. 4. Start following, and linking […]
First Amendment Coalition event
On tap: – Tomorrow and Saturday, the California First Amendment Coalition and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism present the 11th annual Free Speech & Open Government Assembly. Arianna Huffington, Daniel Ellsberg and Judith Miller are among the speakers. I’ll be on a panel “Blogging and Citizen Journalism” from 10:30-11:45 a.m. Saturday with BlogHer’s […]
The future of music and media
I spent an hour in San Francisco this afternoon on a panel at Bandwidth, a conference about the intersection of music and technology, a subject I wrote about in Darknet. Fellow panelists included Maryrose Dunton, Director of Product Management, YouTube; David Todd, VP of Content, eyespot and Sudhin Shahani, CEO, Musicane; moderator was Kevin Crouse, […]