An Epitaph for American Journalism
The Graduate School of Journalism today released its long-awaited report, The Reconstruction of American Journalism by Leonard Downie Jr., and Prof. Michael Schudson. You can read the whole thing here. It is, in a word, terrible. It is terrible because...
Read moreJournalists….. arise! You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Chains
I’m currently working on a piece about homeless people in San Francisco Why are we such wimps? Journalism is in utter collapse and we wander around asking whether perhaps the answer is not to turn the New York Times...
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key to survival A posting on b-roll.net and a conversation at lunch yesterday with Kevin Klose, former President of NPR and new Dean of the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland gave me food for...
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Sign me up Jeff Jarvis runs an interesting commentary as organizations like The New York Times try to find ways to monetize their websites. Maybe hats and umbrellas like NPR for the NY Times? I think he’s close but...
Read moreThe Power of a Blog Post
Not quite Dell… but it works… Jeff Jarvis begins his book What Would Google Do with an anecdote about a problem he had with a Dell computer. Getting no satisfaction from Dell, he blogged about it. Soon enough, a...
Read moreWhat Wouldn’t Google Do?
Marcel Duchamps Nude on a Staircase…. Reading Jeff Jarvis’ book ‘What Would Google Do?’ I am more convinced than ever that he has painted the way the world is going to go. The ‘google’ approach brings incredible efficiencies to...
Read moreWake Up!!!
I read newspapers online….why? The San Francisco Chronicle is dead. So apparently are the 150 year old Rocky Mountain News, The Baltimore Sun, The Chicago Tribune, The LA Times, The New York Times and just about every other major...
Read moreWelcome to the Video Revolution
call now. operators are standing by… The Travel Channel Academy is a great course, but its also expensive. $2000 is a lot to commit for a novice, (not that we don’t have our share of novices in the course)....
Read moreTune in Tonight!
I am going to be a guest again on Curtis Sliwa’s show on ABC talk radio tonight at 11:20 pm. Take that, Jeff Jarvis! You may be invited to speak at Davos, but I am on Curtis!
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