Just got a copy of Mark Briggs’ latest book Journalism Next: A Practical Guide to Digital Reporting and Publishing. Some of efforts we have been doing at the Knoxville News Sentinel are highlighted. He visited Knoxville during his research for...

Here are some excerpts from an Eric Schonfeld post on TechCrunch about an interview with Marc Andreessen. Andreessen is the guy who co-authored the early Web browser, Mosaic, which later became the Netscape browser. He co-founded Ning.com and is investor...

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Editor & Publisher Editor Mark Fitzgerald notes that with the departure of Rusty Coats from E.W. Scripps and the newspaper industry, “that’s two Internet thinkers gone from the business in this young year. E&P’s current Editor of the Year departed...

How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers? Click on the text link if the embedded video doesn’t seem to want to play.

I’ve been using a project collaboration Web service called Teambox for several weeks. I was drawn to it, frankly, because it was free and seemed to meet my needs for a Web site relaunch project involving a committee of several...

I don’t do Hollywood as a blog topic, but here’s an exception. I do want Sandra Bullock to win an Oscar on Sunday. I really do. Image by fabbriciuse via Flickr Competing against Bullock for the best actress Oscar this...

The remarkable story of Nancy Sweezy, the woman who may have just saved pottery making in Seagrove, N.C. I had talked to her a couple of times, but knew little of her amazing life. The National Endowment of the Arts...

Here is a link to a piece I wrote for the “Convergence Newsletter” of the Newsplex at the University of South Carolina. in the issue introduction, editor Matt McColl writes: In looking at the newsrooms of 10 or 20 years...