I’m heading into San Francisco now for this event: Support Independent Journalism in the Bay Area! Benefiting: Newsdesk.org and The Public Press When: Dec. 4, 6:30 – 8:30 PM Where: Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin (bet. Geary & O’Farrell), San Francisco For more information: Support Independent Journalism in the Bay Area! About The Public Press: […]
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Death watch: tangible media
Social marketing expert Shel Holz begins a Death Watch series on "various media whose death has been widely predicted." He kicks off the series today with a look at the coming decline in tangible media — books, magazines and newspapers — as media continue to flow into digital containers. Let’s take these one at a […]
Journalism as a conversation
Saw University of Memphis journalism prof Carrie Brown’s tweet about this. I don’t often link to graduate students’ thesis papers, but this is an elegant read: Journalism-as-a-Conversation: A Concept Explication (Word doc), by Doreen Marchionni, a doctoral student at the University of Missouri-Columbia (which is still turning out the bright ones). Excerpt: Journalism can’t tell […]
Speaking at Future of Media Summit
Two years ago I wrote about attending an interesting new trans-ocean conversation about media trends called the Future of Media Summit. Held along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, it featured Craig Newmark of craiglist, Chris Anderson talking about his new book The Long Tail, and a number of speakers in Sydney hooked up by an […]
Who killed the Online Journalism Review and will it live again?
I wrote scores of columns and articles for the once high-flying independent new media journal, the Online Journalism Review, a publication of USC’s Annenberg School, from 1998 to 2005. For the past several years, the quality had tapered off as funds for free-lance articles were dramatically cut (which is why I left). Still, it was […]