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Caretakers of a vanishing world
Keith Jenkins, The Washington Post picture editor, makes a clarion call to newsrooms and their managers in “Take a Blogger to Lunch (And Other Radical Ideas for Journos Struggling to Understand the Web)” on Poytner’s site. In the process of his call for change NOW, he hammers the caretaker attitude of newsrooms, “hiding, hoping to…
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WSJ 3.0
Uber-bloggers Helen and Glenn Reynolds have a podcast with Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz about print and online and why newspaper publishers should be adapting to the new era (duh); why young people don’t read newspapers; and he offers a view of blogging as “a great journalistic art form.” Good stuff. Tags: podcast |…
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If not local search, then what
If local newspapers can’t win local search, what’s there for them to own? We in newspapers better figure this one out. The whole advertising/audience economy of online newspapers depends on it. One of the solutions in Pramit Sigh’s post (and he has several excellent ones) is to give reporters blogs (and we’re back to this…