Month: February 2009

  • Now that none of these will work …

    Jeff Jarvis buzzsaws through the recent spate of models of journalism that just won’t work. Well, really business models for newspapers that he sees just won’t work. They are in order: Paid content Antitrust exemptions Micropayments Make Google pay Charity Government bailout Positive PR spin Meanwhile TV stations are being advised to prepare for the…

  • Links for the journalism toolbox

    Randy Neal points to several journalism resources posted by the University of Tennessee’s Jim Stovall, but the UT journalism professor and Chuck Warnock also have started a new site tracking trends in mobile communication, mostly news related. From the about: Think of it as a mini-Google for mobile communications and mobile journalism in general. And…

  • A modest collection of links on Isaacson’s modest proposal

    If you’re like most people in the newspaper business, you started getting links late in the week to Walter Isaacson’s piece in Time on “How to Save Your Newspaper,” a topic I’ve thought a lot about in recent days, weeks, months and years. But in addition to Isaacson’s thoughts, I decided to collect his pieces…