A bittersweet end of an era arrived today for those of us who recall the salad days of the CyberWire Dispatch, a periodic no-holds-barred, occasionally gonzo-journalism-style email missive that took aim at the political establishment and corporate powers that be. The muckraking CWD reached its zenith in the mid- to late ’90s, accumulating a readership […]
New media
Expert help sites
A year ago I wrote about expert help sites. It’s time to take another look: • Allexperts.com, the oldest and largest free Q&A service on the Internet. Ratings help you find the right expert. • Askearth, a site created “so that people could be paid to give good-quality, in-depth answers to the really tough questions […]
We Media – Audiences as partners in the news
For the past few months, I’ve been working with new media writers/consultants Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis to produce a comprehensive report for New Directions for News on the subject of participatory journalism. It’s called “We Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information.” San Jose Mercury News business columnist and blogger […]
2nd decade of multimedia Internet publishing
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 […]
What will journalism look like in 2010?
I’m working on a new project, so had time just to whip out a quick answer to Filipa, a journalism student from Portugal. She asks: In your opinion, will the job ‘journalist’ survive as we know it, or there will appear new professional models to support this new way of making news? Great question. The […]