How Journalists Can Make Money
Last week, I wrote a blog for the Huffington Post entitled “The Job of Journalism is Finished” It got a lot of traction – and a lot of arguments. But at the end of the day, anyone who works...
Read moreWhy Is Cable News Such A Cesspool of Idiocracy?
I didn’t write that… (but I don’d disagree) It was written by Dave Winer ( who has been blogging since 1994 and say she is the first blogger). Today, in excoriating Cable News, Dave wrote: In the last couple...
Read moreIs Journalism Dead?
Last week, Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann announced that she would not be running for another term in Congress. This is fine (really), but instead of holding a press conference, she released a video explaining her rationalization for the move. The...
Read moreCNN Lays Off 50 Staffers – Blames “Technology”
Comments 37 First video killed the radio star, and now technology is killing editing and videographer jobs — at least at CNN. The cable news network today laid off 50 staffers in the Atlanta, New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles,...
Read moreCNN Cuts Its Cameramen
Not exactly breaking news… In a nod to the obvious, CNN announced yesterday that it was cutting its corps of cameramen. Photographers, editors and other staffers in Atlanta, New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Miami are being let...
Read moreCNN Now Has 753,000 Registered iReporters
Here comes everybody… Here’s an astonishing statistic: There are currently 753,000 iReporters registered with CNN. Let me say that one again, this time in bold because it deserves it: There are currently 753,000 iReporters registered with CNN. Buried deep...
Read moreTed Turner and Me, Part II
Pat Mitchell, Dr. Denis Mukwege, Elizabeth Dewberry, Ted Turner OK By popular demand, the continuation of the Ted Turner story. So at the end of the meeting in New York, Ted turned to me and said, ‘You go down...
Read moreFrom TCA to CNN in One Step
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8ZXCbHKET8[/youtube] Off to a VERY good start In September, artist Eric Afredo took the Travel Channel Academy course in NY. Although he lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, Eric says he wanted to move to NY to ’emmerse [myself] in the...
Read moreToo Little…. Too Late…..
hmmm…..well what about helium? Our old friend up in Albany, Mike Sechrist sent us a link to a great speech by John Temple, former editor and President of the now defunct Rocky Mountain News. The Rocky Mountain News, which...
Read moreShould Journalism Die?
And that’s the way it is… or at least as far as I know, that’s the way it is…. When I was a student at The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University (’83), we used manual typewriters. We...
Read more