Scripps exec Jay Small on newspaper video: Focus on video when it is the best storytelling tool for the job. For example: Raw video from a warehouse fire? Great - rough cut it and post it. Two minutes of a...

I went by the Knoxville Overground opening party last night. They were doing tours of the upstairs space in the Sequoyah Hills offices. This is a shot in the front room where I thought I could hang around for awhile....

Does Google need a hyperlocal news play to crack the local advertising market? Or has Google’s Tim Anderson just recognized a bunch of smart people? You got to like his stated motivations: Tim believes that Patch should be in every...

A roundup of views on the Facebook terms of service changes. Party favors for 175 million, please. Update: Facebook retreats to former terms.

“Consumer behaviour is a threat to the mainstream media …”

Forget pay walls, micropayments, free content, secular or cyclical advertising, antiquated business models and practices, the Internet, print-centric thinking or any other of the seemingly endless list of factors adversely affecting newspapers. You can understand the predicament of newspapers in...

TJ Sullivan proposes “It’s time for every daily newspaper in the United States, in cooperation with the Associated Press, to shut down their free Web sites for one week.” Ah, you first TJ. Longtime media consultant and pundit Vin Crosbie...

Jeff Jarvis buzzsaws through the recent spate of models of journalism that just won’t work. Well, really business models for newspapers that he sees just won’t work. They are in order: Paid content Antitrust exemptions Micropayments Make Google pay Charity...

Randy Neal points to several journalism resources posted by the University of Tennessee’s Jim Stovall, but the UT journalism professor and Chuck Warnock also have started a new site tracking trends in mobile communication, mostly news related. From the about:...