These photos were shot at dusk from the porch of the condo where we’re staying in Chincoteague Island, Va. On a nearby pier is a bar where a guy is playing guitar and singing Steve Miler’s “The Joker.” Cause I’m...

Federal prosecutors who had made a broad request for user information of commenters on the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Web site backed down a bit, but an American Civil Liberties Union attorney representing four anonymous commenters on the newspaper Web site...

We journalist types typically eschew focus groups and market research about news coverage, saying we know what a news story is and we don’t need no stinkin’ survey to figure it out. But we are learning to measure … and...

The Freedom Forum’s Diversity Institute is putting on an intensive week-long multimedia boot camp in mid-August. The program is designed for journalism educators, students or professionals with limited multimedia skills.

Nobody is investing  in print newspapers, right?

Can a newspaper do local TV? One of the most ambitious efforts yet just launched in Las Vegas with a brassy party. Hey, it’s Vegas, baby. Greenspun Interactive is doing a half-hour show called 702.tv on Tuesdays and Thursdays in...

“My mandate for news teams is that I want them to shoot every story like it’s about their mother, brother, sister, father, and cousin. Tell it that way. That’s the road to clarity, truth, understanding and fully becoming global.”

It’s great to see the Miami Herald launch a local blog aggregator, South Florida Blogs, with journalist-turned-entrepreneur Dave Mastio. There’s some explanation of what they’re up on the Knight Digital Media Center Web site. It’s an idea I’ve long thought...

I like the scoop on these scores.

Tony Hung of Dive Jive Interests points to a Bloomberg piece that says about 3 million “vanity URLs” were grabbed over the weekend, some 500,000 in the first 15 minutes (that would be me). He wonders if that’s really a...