John Millea Was a Journalism Student At Drake When He Wrote the Register's Sparkling 'Fabulous Few To Final Four' Sports Headline In 1980 "There are lots of good headline writers these days, but there's more to the story — "consider the war on editing from the bosses. Or time-pressed, short-staffed. Or, my best bet: The [...]
Don't Bail Out Newspapers – Let Them Die and Get Out of the Way "Nobody in their right mind believes the future of the news business involves paper and ink rather than pixels on a screen. We all know where the news business is headed, and what's more, we've known it for at least a [...]
Guardian backs down on re-use payments… "The National Union of Journalists is claiming a small victory in its dispute with The Guardian over the payment of re-use fees. It says it has agreed a licence deal for contract photographers contributing to the newspaper, which pays re-use fees ‘on a sliding scale for a five-year period [...]
The future of journalism: 'Take a Stand' "If you would like to spare yourself a bunch of hazy, crazy soliloquizing by me, you can skip everything below and just follow this link. It goes to “Take a Stand,” a smart, brave piece by Brent Cunningham, managing editor of the esteemed Columbia Journalism Review. Cunningham posits [...]
The Story Behind the Story "With journalists being laid off in droves, ideologues have stepped forward to provide the “reporting” that feeds the 24-hour news cycle. The collapse of journalism means that the quest for information has been superseded by the quest for ammunition. A case-study of our post-journalistic age." (tags: journalism politics newspapers america) [...]
