David Brooks’ latest column in the New York Times, The Outsourced Brain, reminded me of a conversation I had a week ago with Dianne Lynch, the new dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Brooks writes: My G.P.S. goddess liberated me from this drudgery. She enabled me to externalize geographic information from […]
Rob Curley on next stages in new media
Last week in Toronto, at the Online News Association conference, I had a chance to sit down with an old friend, Rob Curley, vice president of new products at the Washington Post. In this 5-minute video interview he talks about the Post’s fabulous OnBeing series, the new citizen media site Loudounextra.com, mobile technology, geo-tagging and […]
TechCrunch doesn’t understand ‘off the record’
Nelson’s weblog on When bloggers aren’t journalists. Or, how TechCrunch doesn’t understand ‘off the record.’ To help the TechCrunch gang, here’s journalistic sourcing at Wikipedia: "On-the-record": all that is said can be quoted and attributed. "Unattributable": what is said can be reported but not attributed. [Actually, this is almost always called "On background."] "Off-the-record": the […]
More from ONA
More from the Online News Association conference in Toronto: Yesterday the panel discussion on Becoming a community evangelist, with Dan Gillmor, Jay Rosen and Rob Curley of the Washington Post (I moderated), went very well, with several people coming up afterward saying they wish the hourlong session could have gone longer. The panel showed that […]
My interview with BlogTalkRadio
John C. Havens, vice president at BlogTalkRadio, has been doing interviews with participants at the Online News Association conference in Toronto. Here’s the blogtalkradio page with all the interviews. I just finished up a 25-minute talk with him about the state of online news, blogging, the personal media revolution and Ourmedia. You can listen to […]