Can Newspapers Survive? Here’s A Plan….
This terrifying graphic came from a Nieman Report on the state of the news business, released last week. As you can see above, newspapers are now circling the drain. And all the theoretical discussions about ‘digital revenue’ are not...
Read moreA World Without Newspapers
All the news that’s fit to print…. I am old. I am so old that I still like to start each morning with a printed, paper newspaper at breakfast. I could read the paper online, on my iPad or...
Read moreGet Out Of The House.. Now!!!
Get out of the house now!!! Did you ever watch a horror movie. The Texas Chainsaw Killer kind of movie, where the young, good looking group of friends has their car break down in the middle of nowhere and...
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 moreWhat is Journalism?
This just in…. In 1798, Napoleon invaded Egypt. Feeling the pressure of rising unemployment in France, and seeing the power that British colonies had given England, Napoleon set forth with his fleet, first picking off the riches of Malta...
Read moreIs Journalism Worth Anything?
All the news… In 1988 when I quit my job at CBS News and moved into Gaza with a small video camera, the very idea of doing that was rare. There wasn’t a lot of in-depth coverage coming out...
Read moreThe Soloist – A Documentary on the Death of Newspapers
Emmy for best documentary? Flying trans-Atlantic once a week gives you two things: -Lots of frequent flyer miles -A chance to see just about every movie there is. Virgin Atlantic offers a wide range of films, and being captive...
Read moreDoes Twitter Lead to a Monoculture?
Under the skin, all exactly the same… Yet another new piece of software for Twitter, this one called Twittertrends, now allows everyone to see what top ten topics everyone else is twittering about at any given moment. As Techcrunch...
Read moreI Am Mister Ed
You never heard of a talking horse? I used to teach a course at NYU called “Television and the Information Explosion”. I didn’t invent the name of the course, I just inherited it. It was a stupid name, and...
Read moreYour Unemployed Future
Once I had a newspaper, made it run….. As a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (’83) I watch with a mixture of incredulity and sadness as legions of my classmates and alumni hit the streets...
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