Author: Jack Lail

  • Naming rights for this blog are available*

    Instead of newspapers and other media companies buying parts of sports teams and naming rights to stadiums and arenas, maybe the sports teams need to buy part of newspapers … the Dallas Mavericks Newsroom, the Tennessee Titans Press Room, the Atlanta Falcons Satellite Printing Plant? There would be fewer headaches for team owners than Mark…

  • “Willful ignorance” may win out

    These two pieces on the future, or lack thereof, for newspapers are best read as a pair. This change has been more like seeing oncoming glaciers ten miles off, and then deciding not to move. By the turn of the century, anyone who didn’t understand that the business model for newspapers was a wasting asset…

  • The story of Knoxville Talks

    Katie Allison Granju on newsroom blogging and how she came to create Knoxville Talks. Far too many publishers, reporters, editors, anchors and producers still see blogging as some sort of second-class, redheaded stepchild. Bloggers aren’t real journalists, so the argument goes, and they certainly don’t belong in the newsroom. But as real journalists and journalism…