This month’s Carnival of Journalism is about the theme of “How to support journalism online financially.” There are examples of successful journalism online: Rafat Ali’s PaidContent, Nick Denton’s Gawker Media, Pete Cashmore’s Mashable, AOL’s blogs and others. I’d even include...
ICONN conference first day coverage.
News Sentinel editor Jack McElroy on “Paying for newsroom with online ads.”
As a former editor of mine used to say, this stuff subtracts from the sum of human knowledge.
I’m on the program of the founding conference of ICONN or the Intercollegiate Online News Network. The conference will be held at the University of Tennessee on Jan 15 and 16. The group “is a set of individuals, academic programs...
Some predictions for 2009 from MIke Sechrist, a broadcast veteran and now entrepreneur. I would not be surprised if the Tennessean cuts back on home delivery as a number of papers have already. I would not be surprised if one...
Dave Morgan says he’s not going to write about newspapers anymore because he doesn’t see them as “very relevant to the future and things digital.” Morgan has a history of being prescient about the industry and so his it’s-nearly-over theme...
Peter Dykstra, a former executive producer of CNN’s Science, Tech and Weather Unit and currently a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, puts some perspective around the coverage of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s environmental disaster at...
Scott Maentz, pictured at right, of Spring City, organized what may have been Knoxville’s first “Geek Breakfast” this morning at the IHOP on Lowell Road. It was a networking opportunity, but he also encouraged people to bring peanut butter or...