We knew this day would come. A daily newspaper editor has ordered one of its journalists to suspend his personal weblog. Editor & Publisher has the details: Hartford Paper Tells Employee to Kill Blog. Travel editor Denis Horgan’s weblog “created a parallel journalistic universe where he’ll do commentary on institutions that the paper has to […]
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 […]
Photojournalism ethics during war
Peter Howe, who covered civil wars in Northern Ireland and El Salvador as a photojournalist and who wrote Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer, has an op-ed article in USA Today about the editorial choices involved in deciding which photos to publish in a newspaper to tell the story of the war. […]
How a daily college newspaper became independent
Twenty-five years ago today, when I was a young pup, I organized and chaired a major journalism convention at Rutgers University that paved the way for the university’s college daily newspaper, the Targum, to become an independent publication. Lesley Stahl, Daniel Schorr and George Gallup were just a few of the speakers who came out […]
Reason or treason? ‘Free speech has limits’
This must be Southern Old Media day here at New Media Musings. Besides the Richmond Times Dispatch, I’m also quoted in a thoughtful piece in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Reason or treason? Free speech has limits, advocates of war argue. (Incidentally, I couldn’t find this story because the piece-o’-crap Access Atlanta site has no editorial search […]