Author: Jack Lail

  • Designing the newsroom of the future isn’t fun

    Thoughts on building a newsroom of the future from ground up. Both of these snippets are thoughts from a workshop at the New Business Models for News Summit at CUNY last month. No easy decisions … What would your plan look like? Neil Budde: At last week’s New Business Models for News Summit, I was…

  • We just passed by another tipping point

    During the first Gulf War, 24-hour cable news (specifically CNN) saw huge ratings increases and established the viability of cable news, which is now a staple of television for many Americans. Fifteen years later, we couldn’t imagine not being able to find news on television at any time of day. Might we look back at…

  • That’s why we have elections

    A post election message from 1988 and Patti Smith: “People have the Power.” (via Ethan Kaplan)