I may have to create a whole new category for compensation of online journalists. Edward Wasserman, a veteran newsman and a journalism professor at Washington & Lee University, flattered me a bit by picking up on a blog post I...
Spread the word: Since 1953 the Scripps Howard Foundation has honored the best work in journalism through its National Journalism Awards program. The awards honor excellence in 17 categories, including one that you will find of interest. The Web Reporting...
Scott Karp on 2008 as the year of ‘change or die’.
Reading the Sidney Morning Herald’s “Ten things that will change your future” reminded me that I hadn’t mentioned Kiva lately. But I’ll get to that in a moment. The list is interesting in that the writer says the items might...
At the blog, Knoxify, candidates are addressing the blog’s three questions for hopeful officeholders (more details). For me, the first two are but warm-ups for the real question, No. 3, What 5 things could you not live without? Ah, we...
A couple really wonderful posts about suggestions for possibly reinvigorating and reinventing print newsrooms for the Digital Age. Editor John Robinson modifies Howard Owens’ 10 things non-wired journalists need to do contest for the “more-or-less wired journalists” in his newsroom...
From Memphis, Tom Guleff’s YouTube video on Open Meetings in Tennessee.
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President Bush apparently believes bloggers are journalists. In the closing days of 2007, Bush signed the OPEN Government Act, which strengthens the Freedom of Information Act and also importantly extends journalist status in many cases to bloggers and other independent...
Kathy Brister, a former business writer at the Knoxville News Sentinel, has a new job. Brister, who left the News Sentinel in 2000 to become a business reporter and later editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has been named the senior...
Chris Cillizza, who writes “The Fix” blog on the Washington Post Web site, asked people to send in suggestions on the best political reporters in each state and created a list in a Dec. 28 blog posting. For Tennessee,...