Media consultant Vin Crosbie has created a stir with a thought-provoking two-of-three-parts on the transformation of the newspaper industry. The short take: More than half of the 1,439 daily newspapers in the United States won’t exist in print, e-paper, or...
A question from “Glenn in Knoxville” leads “Uncle Jay” to explain why so many reporters (some 15,000) are covering the Democratic National Convention.
Ah, uh, well, it might explain a few things about newspaper management.
In the Adversity is a Mean Teacher Department, ValleyWag has a typically snarky, but mostly appropriate post about five ways the newspaper botched the Web. My CliffsNotes version: No porn on Viewtron. (How’d we miss that one?) New Century Network...
Knoxville blogger Randy Neal (of KnoxViews and Tennviews fame) blogging at the Democratic National Convention. It’ll be interesting to see his perspectives on the proceedings. He also has aggregated many other bloggers at the convention.
Video coverage of the Democratic National Convention with Nokia N95’s by UNLV journalism students. Learn more.
While I was out of town yesterday, the newsroom at the Knoxville News Sentinel was doing an outstanding job of breaking news coverage of a shooting at a Knoxville high school. Complete coverage is here. Breaking text, photos, videos, SMS...
One of my favorite Knoxville voices has a new blog project. See Katie Allison Granju’s “Because I said so.” And sure, she’s maintaining her well-known personal blog. Before leaving WBIR for a new job with the E.W. Scripps corporate interactive...
Jason Preston: The AP is poised to flip the age-old relationship of content provider and distributor. Inside ten years, the AP will control the distribution path to the largest possible audience, and will be offering member papers a kickback on...
You may not like it (and I think it reduces traffic), but expect to see more, not less, pre-roll video advertising. We need to evolve to something that works for viewers and advertisers. Being obnoxious can’t be good long term....
What do journalists after newspapers and TV. Journalism.