A Touch of Class
Reunion 2008 I graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. That is a long time ago. So long ago, that we recently celebrated our 25th anniversary. Hard to believe. We had a party (above) at...
Read moreA Case for a “King of News”?
Capable of seeing all sides of an argument… For many years now, I have been a resident of two countries, the USA and the UK. That ‘duality’ has taught me to look at the world from several perspectives at...
Read moreWhere Are Your Priorities?
1959 Caddy. But does democracy hinge on this? Washington, it seems, is not prepared to let the auto industry and Detroit go down the tubes. The bail out is going to happen, even if the White House has to...
Read moreA House of Cards
But at the end of the day, someone has to make the original content and be paid for it. Until now, that someone has been newspapers. But I think we are looking at the end of newspapers, and that is a...
Read moreIf You Bild It….. will they come?
Email this morning from Pat Younge, President of the Travel Channel.* He sends me a link from The Guardian, that BILD, the German newspaper has partnered with a German supermarket to sell small cameras and field an army of citizen...
Read moreThe Repository of All Human Knowledge
what would you like to know…. OK It’s one of those late night Science Fiction movies in which a time traveller goes into the future and discovers that the whole world has become a land in which learning and...
Read moreHello Bolly
She’s the little old lady from Utta Pradesh now… James MacPherson is the publisher of an online website called Pasadena Now. Pasadenanow.com is causing a lot of buzz in the journalism community. Not because it’s hyperlocal news. that’s old...
Read moreThe Eyes of Texas Are Upon You
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beLs4MrxWcs&hl=en&fs=1] [youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8euQHZ0PTM&hl=en&fs=1] First, many thanks to Buck over at b-roll.net. for finding this. Nice research! Austin likes to think of itself as ‘different’ from the rest of Texas. And now, The Austin American-Statesman takes a giant step in moving...
Read moreThe Man Who Came to Breakfast
Notice the marmite…… Jeff Jarvis dropped over for breakfast yesterday. Somewhere between Dubai and Davos, he carved out an hour for a few slices of Sullivan Street Bakery sesame bread and white fish salad. He came over to talk...
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