The tornadoes that ravaged West and Middle Tennessee left behind in the debris great gems of people telling their own stories in the tragedy. Helen Waters at BusinessWeek noticed: Watching the news and CNN had a piece on the tornado...
Some thoughts on Google News new localization feature, or local headlines by city, state or zip. These local news headline area been getting lots of national attention. Your portal website doesn’t matter anymore, because people are hanging out where they...
The coming “watching web.” Writing about a new TV Web site called livenewscameras.com, former Nashville TV station general manager Mike Sechrist says: You want news from your “hometown” from anywhere in the world? Not a problem, it will be available...
The New York Times has discovered Knox County politics.
Gotta say they Dan Barry nailed it. Some of the vivid observations:
It seems a catfish could have been appointed if properly connected.
Marc Andreessen is a really smart guy and I don’t mean to be pollyannish, but I’m not ready to do a deathwatch on The New York Times, despite its boardroom brawls with big investors, its stock price plunge over the...
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More Joe Friday than Lilly Rush, upper East Tennessee police departments have gone YouTube. The Kingsport Police Department has joined a growing number of police departments using YouTube to publicize cases. Kingsport is using YouTube in hopes of getting leads...
I had been thinking about Mathew Ingram’s “Twitter as news delivery platform” for a couple of days and today he demonstrated what he meant with a Twitter stream “analysis” of the Microsoft-Yahoo deal. If you still believe that insightful news...
Just four days ago I got an email from Scott Karp suggesting that his Web startup might have some tools that could make covering an election interesting – really interesting.
Here’s a quick take from a new online journaism credibility study: Editors are a lot more queasy about real names in Web site comments than users. _When asked “do you think it is a good idea or bad idea that...