Amidst the doom and gloom over the newspaper industry, a refashioning is taking place in newsrooms that a majority of editors believe is improving their product even as revenues to support newsrooms, among other things, are declining. And the audience...
Tough times for a nice museum, the North Carolina Pottery Center.. The decade-old center is in Seagrove, which the AP’s Martha Waggoner wrote has “been described as the largest continuing community of European-based potters in the United States. In the...
The storm that knocked power out to more than 37,000 homes in Knoxville was something to Twitter about on Monday (and I’m sure I missed some others): boriqua: Turning cell off now to conserve battery. Goodnight, all! boriqua: Entering...
This one is going around, but as one who’s worn glasses since I was five, I can’t resist. You may have seen it, but if not, see “How Glasses Can Change A Person.”
Some are calling what Virgil Griffith is doing hacking, but I think it’s journalism, computational journalism. Griffith, a graduate student in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech, created a stir last year when he released Wikiscanner. It revealed how active...
Tennessee is full of small cities, but only one was good enough to m ake Money magazine’s 2008 version of the 100 Best Places to Live, Mon ey’s list of America’s best small cities. That city is Franklin. The list...
When the media “perfect storm” passes, some will emerge stronger and thrive: It’s inevitable that by the time the American economy improves, some of the metros will have figured out how to remake the slimmer, smaller-staffed newspaper work for both...
I’ve been hearing editors were dinosaurs every since, well, I became one a couple of decades ago. We haven’t gotten stuck in the tar pits yet – or have we? Kurt Greenbaum has been listening to the drumbeats while working...
Glenn Reynolds on his podcasting with wife, Helen, and the “NPR voice.” This is from a Sunday afternoon radio talk he, Michael Silence and I did with George Korda on WNOX, 100.3