While I wasn’t at Bonnaroo, the mega music festival in Manchester, Tenn., I did some “link journalism” around it that I think added greatly to our coverage. See here, here, here, here and here. If you’re not dong links as...

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Twitter made Time’s cover, but more telling for me is what is happening with Twitter and the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival here in Tennessee. Knoxville News Sentinel online producer Lauren Spuhler (heading to cover her fifth Bonnaroo today) grabbed...

Mindy McAdams on how mainstream media is much like a movie theater of her youth. It’s like the movie theater in the small town where I grew up. A small, family-owned theater, it only played second-run movies. It was open...

My reading of this is Jay Smith believes in the network effect and sees that as one of the remaining opportunities for newspapers. Below is an excerpt from an email from retired Cox Newspapers chief executive Jay Smith to former...

Pooling video resources among competing TV stations has come to Dallas. Barry Shlachter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram takes a look a month into local video sharing in that market Participating are Fox’s KDFW, NBC’s KXAS and Tribune Co.’s KDAF. ...

Lido Vizzutti takes a look at an Ohio University student journalism project, Soul of Athens. Pretty good stuff. The “about” page describes the project as: Soul of Athens is an innovative online publication that studies the contrasts of this Appalachian...

The story of Knoxville’s Scripps Networks (SNI) in one paragraph from the Pot of Gold blog. Kenneth W. Lowe wanted to create a 24-hour TV cable network about rooms in the home for the E.W. Scripps Co. and wanted to...

You often hear editorial types describe the current problem of newspapers and TV as “it’s not an audience problem; it’s a revenue problem.” Maybe, maybe not. That sort of short-circuits the question of whether news, particlarly local news, is economically...

There’s been a lively discussion about online comments as a result of the APME Online Credibility Roundtable on Comments we held recently in Knoxville. Our excellent Roundtable guests raised many points that others are reacting too.  The comment threads are...