Jonathan Rauch on politics, journalism, and mistakes Trial and error is really the only thing in life that works ultimately over the long term. Journalism is like that, too, so we need to be honest about our mistakes. We often aren’t enough. Everybody makes mistakes. (tags: interview government media politics productivity journalism) Google Launches “Universal [...]
Time for a Journalism Unconference? It might be an especially good idea to hold an unconference in which journalists brainstorm with Holvaty-esque creative tech-types to find collaborative ways to enhance journalism. (tags: journalism future) News Corp Buys 2 Latvian TV Channels News Corporation, the global media empire controlled by Rupert Murdoch, has acquired two Latvian [...]
Citizen-journalism Web sites struggle to attract reporters Why hasn’t citizen journalism taken off? One reason sometimes suggested, in Japan at least, is that people simply don’t have time to research and write articles. Working hours are long, and Japan has fewer activists and volunteers than many other countrie (tags: citizen+journalism japan) On Myspace And Local [...]
Google to abstain from purchasing news organisations Although becoming more comfortable with bigger acquisitions, Schmidt stated that news organizations would not be among those companies acquired by Google. (tags: google newspaper+websites online future) Journalists wait to hear news on job cuts Staff at the Manchester Evening News and its sister weeklies are waiting to hear [...]
Newspapers may be changing but we will go on reading them The big guns of the “reports of the death of newspapers is premature” faction have come out fighting. The World Association of Newspapers is making aggressively upbeat presentations. (tags: newspapers sales trinity+mirror future) The BBC man, the Scientologist – and the YouTube rant A [...]
