Starting from the premise:

Nice piece on Charles Scripps by Dan Thomasson, former and longtime editor of Scripps Howard News Service. Tags: E.W. Scripps Charles Scripps newspapers

Just beneath the surface of convergence and newsroom transformation, lies a darker, more cynical view of changes within newsrooms. And, unfortunately, that darkness could drag newspapers efforts to adapt into the abyss. Consider this from a recent survey of sportswriters...

That blogger Amanda Marcotte resigned under fire from John Edwards’ presidential campaign emphasizes what is wrong with public debate in America. It’s not about issues and candidates. It’s about code words and political correctness. When someone, in this case, Bill...

Where do most people get their news? Not from newspapers it seems. Not even a second! When pollster Zogby did a survey just a couple weeks ago, people said: Where do you get most of your news and information? Internet...

This is disruptive as hell…

Mark Hamilton weighs in the Knoxville warehouse fire coverage that I wrote about here. He quotes extensively from University of Tennessee journalism professor Bob Stepno’s post on the fire and adds:

Two interesting takes on Google Docs: Charlene Li and Scott Karp. Obviously, Google Docs aren’t as good as Microsoft Office. The question is are they good enough – or how long will it take to make them good enough. For...

Hmmm … this is not my editor’s AP. The august news wire, The Associated Press, is doing some experimenting. They’ve turned a young “product specialist” in the Online Video Network loose on the streets for eight weeks with a video...

Michael Patrick / News Sentinel staff The early bloggers, people like Jeff Jarvis and Glenn Reynolds, point to 9/11 as the seminal event that forever changed their blogs and blogging as a way of writing about and interpreting news. I...