Journalism, Technology, History

The old dog, new tricks problem

A great read for anyone worried about the newspaper business from John Paton, CEO of Digital First Media: As career journalists we have entered a new era where what we know and what we traditionally do has finally found its...

The slant on media bias

The Wall Street Journal is among the most liberal media outlets in the U.S., more liberal than the New York Times and NPR. And the Drudge Report is left leaning, yes, left leaning, more left leaning than CNN. One study...

Has a tablet replaced your 'main' computer for reading news?

Interesting survey. If you have a few minutes, help grad student full-time faculty member in the University of Kentucky Division of Instructional Communicatio Chas Hartman by taking it. He’s trying to answer: How is consumers’ use of tablets such as...

The inventor of the camera phone may surprise you

I remember Phillipe Kahn primarily as the CEO of database and programming tool maker Borland International, but he is also credited with inventing the camera phone in 1997, yes, in 1997. And he’s the only to have a photo to...

Media Credentials, the virtual debate version

Who is a “real” journalist? Why does @nypd decide who gets credentials? @megrobertson suggests nymedia “stop using them” #smwknd #ows -- Jennifer Preston (@NYT_JenPreston) January 28, 2012

Quick, who's a complacent monopolist?

The Economist called Kodak a “complacent monopolist.” Does that sound like any other company you know … or maybe an industry?

Newspapers thought it would always be so

Journalism professor Jay Rosen posed this question on Sunday: @johnrobinson Now if we could only figure out when (for the readers) “our newspaper” became “the” newspaper… When and how… Exactly how.Sun Jan 01 19:10:29 via webJay Rosen jayrosen_nyu

My most read blog posts in 2011

My most read blog posts during 2011 include only three written in 2011. Long tail at work or did I just used to write more interesting posts? A handful of these also made the list for the most read in...
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