Journalism, Technology, History

Another year, another year older

Researcher Greg Harmon of Borrell Associates says the average age of a print newspaper reader is 57 and the average newspaper web visitor is 51. Saying the industry’s aging demographics ought to have “everyone’s hair on fire,” Harmon notes that...

Newscast bunnies get into some sexy business

Local TV station WBIR has been in the news as an Easter segment last week went viral. What made everything from Gawker to the Today Show were some bunnies that in an on-air segment in front of the anchors did...

About that comment

What’s new in comments about comments. The debate on anonymous comments on websites continues while publisher retool or junk their comment systems. Meanwhile, a few interesting new experiments are happening.

Toledo Blade files suit after Army security detains journalists

Here’s another incredible example of the government’s trampling of the rights of photojournalists. The Toledo Blade filed suit Friday after the Army security personnel detained two journalists outside a tank plan in Lima, Ohio. Cameras were confiscated and some photos...

Discovering breaking news as it happens

Editors are safe for the moment, but this is an interesting experiment in news automation and an interesting way of determining what is “breaking news.”
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