Journalism, Technology, History

A camel, a Lohan and a Curley

Tom Curley, president and CEO of the Associated Press, talks about news on the Web and the four types of news at the APME NewsTrain at the John Seigenthaler Center on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville on Sept....

Newsroom metabolism is a dichotomy problem

Kitsap Sun Editor David Nelson has an answer for my question: Can newsroom change their “web metabolism?” I wondered in a recent blog post whether newspaper newsrooms could change their “metabolism” to what the instant, want-it-now, always-on Internet demands while...

Opportunities for young journalists to get a paying internship

E.W. Scripps is recruiting journalists for internships that start as early as October chainwide. The internships last 24 weeks and there’s even relocation money of $500. CubReporters.org has some details. The News Sentinel, where I work, is looking for two...

Newspaper newsrooms need to adjust the metabolism

The Knoxville News Sentinel ran Part 2 of the Scripps Howard News Service package on the “Future of News” today. The first installment ran Sunday. (Other E.W. Scripps newspapers ran the series or parts of the series earlier. Several, like...

There's a future in news

E.W. Scripps newspaper editors and online managers collaborated on a “Future of News” project this summer that ran in some newspapers last weekend and is on knoxnews.com today and Tuesday. It was a challenge put forth by Chris Doyle, the...

This post has not been tape recorded

Among the AP Stylebookchanges announced Friday: video recording Precise term for digital audio and visual recording. Digital has largely replaced videotaping. videotape (n. and v.) Largely replaced by digital recording. The terms apply only if tape is used.

Train, train

OK, Dolly Parton doesn’t have anything to do with this, but we should “train, train.” Two training opportunities are coming up that might interest journalists in Tennessee (and elsewhere). APME’s NewsTrain rolls into Nashville, Sept. 23-24. Some heavy hitters will...

That vexing pay wall question

A University of Kentucky gradudate student is doing an online survey on whether readers would pay to access newspaper content. Help him out by taking the survey.
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