How Journalists Could Conquer The World
But first… The News! My friend Peter Klein, a Professor at University of British Columbia, points out a full page ad in the Globe touting the value of ‘professional journalists’. “‘We believe this is the first step toward taking action to...
Read moreThe Whole World is Watching – all the time
America’s first Reality Show on TV – image courtesy Wikicommons On May 3, 1963, Freedom Riders descended on the city of Birmingham, Alabama, demanding equal civil rights for black Americans. Since the end of the Civil War, or shortly thereafter,...
Read moreAll Journalists Must Learn Video says AFP Chief
The ability to produce video packages is one of the most important skills a journalist can have, according to Phil Chetwynd, global editor-in-chief at AFP. So says Phil Chetwynd, head of AFP, head of one of the largest and...
Read moreDear Dean of the Journalism School
Merry Christmas! For the past few days I have been writing about the ‘death’ of journalism as a profession. This morning, I got an email from a classmate of mine at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (Class of...
Read moreToday We All Are Journalists
Training print reporters at The Daily Telegraph (UK) to shoot their own video with iPhones The media is the child of technology. It was the invention of the printing press that begat newspaper, magazines and books. The printing press...
Read moreThe Canon of Journalism
Here is my latest Bull on Journalism… The Missouri School of Journalism yesterday issued a press release entitled ” Citizen Journalism vs. Legacy News: The Battle for News Supremacy I like this ‘battle’ notion because it plays right into...
Read moreHere Is What Journalism Should Sound Like
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Eric Whitacre is a 39 year old avant-garde composer and music conductor. He is also a man who has provided us with a model of how journalism in the 21st Century can work. Without meaning to. The piece...
Read moreA Model for a New Journalism
Harness the power that is already out there. New technologies are a bitch. They’re a bitch because you can’t argue with them – or even have a rational discussion. When automobiles were invented at the turn of the century,...
Read moreWhere The Jobs Are… and aren’t
Read all about it A curious juxtaposition of two news stories today: NPR Reports that even though the stock market is up 50% unemployment is also 10.2% USA Today reports that small businesses will have to use video in...
Read moreMasters Of The Information Universe!
Arise! You ink stained wretches!! We live in the ‘Information Era”. That, at least, is what everyone says. And it is true. What we do almost all day long is process information, of one kind or another. In another...
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