Journalism, Technology, History

5 questions that keep Ken Lowe up at night

1. Will media consumers pay for quality content on interactive platforms? 2. Shouldn’t we be worrying about our privacy? 3. Can we find a better way to measure audiences across platforms? 4. Why are you still watching commercials if you...

Something to say

The next couple of weeks seem to be all about giving talks. Doing a roundtable discussion with Kevin Slimp and Tom Chester tomorrow at lunch at the Institute of Newspaper Technology. This session meets at Regas and should be fun....

Scripps Networks in play?

A trade publication fuels rumors that Knoxville-based Scripps Networks will be acquired by a larger media player by saying it looks ripe to “be nibbled at or gobbled up whole.”

Good listen for October

I’m liking this title cut and other tunes from the new  I And Love And You Avett Brothers album more with every listen.

The tomato paste libel case

I’ve been doing a lot of research, thinking and writing about online comments for a Nov. 5 webinar on comment management for news sites for the Poynter Institute and APME. So the story about a libel suit against the owner...

Knoxnews wins breaking news award

I was watching the Livestream.com Web live video of the Online Journalism Awards presentation while I was updating knoxnews/govolsxtra Saturday night. The Tennessee-Auburn game had just ended and it was busy. When Rich Beckman announced knoxnews was the winner in...

Lessons from the Rocky

Lessons from the Rocky Mountain News - Presentation at the UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit at Googleplex in Silicon Valley from John Temple on Vimeo.

History at 11

Google has a cute logo today celebrating its turning 11 (it was founded Sept 4, 1998). It went public in 2004 so you can’t see the complete picture of the success the company has had in its stock chart, but...

Webinar Series coming on "difficult online news issues"

(I am doing the first of these Webinars on Nov. 5. I hope you’ll be able to join us.) Poynter’s NewsU and APME to Kick Off Online Credibility Webinar Series: New Approaches to Dealing With Difficult Online News Issues _The...

At the fork in the road, take both

The newspaper of tomorrow is going to break down into two distinct paths and only one of them includes paper of any form. Local information is always of value and this is the form that printed versions will likely take....
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