Month: October 2008

  • The transformation continues …

    It doesn’t take a Cray Jaguar supercomputer to figure out journalism is changing, but we used one anyway. OK, I know I look like an idiot, but these are the things we do these days to add value to our news products. — Frank Munger, News Sentinel reporter And here is Munger’s video on this…

  • New study finds reading blogs doesn’t make journalists stupid

    In fact, there’s evidence, at least among journalists that blog, that journalists are getting story ideas and spotting trends from “that one.” That is among the more interesting data that is beginning to come out of Paul Bradshaw’s analysis of his summer survey of blogging journalists: Respondents spoke of a clearer perception of audience needs…

  • The currency markets of news

    In a Friday post, Dan Conover writes about “10 reasons why newspapers won’t reinvent news.” It’s an interesting list, but I found more provocative his answer in the comments to the question of what can be done: Newspaper companies should get out of the news business. It’s a little off my topic at hand, but…