The world has really, really changed and will keep changing and we in mainstream media may not like it but it’s a fact and we have to embrace it or we will die. And when will there be a museum of blogging?
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Some Bloggers Meet the Bosses From Big Media
What capacity for product development do news organizations show? Zip. How are they on nurturing innovation? Terrible. Is there an entreprenurial spirit in newsrooms? No. Do smart young people ever come in and overturn everything? Never...
But how reliable was the reporting, media execs asked. Who were their sources? How about if one of the citizen reporters had it in for one of the Republicans? I didn’t add my two cents on that point at the meeting. Here it is now: As a reader, I’m happy to look at that citizens’ reporting. It’s additive. There was nothing. Now there’s something. True, the anonymous reporters are not accountable for their work. So I wouldn’t cite it, journalistically, as evidence that a certain Republican voted one way or another
• Relationships between and among bloggers and journalism [What's the role of bloggers as reporters? Which reporting can we trust? ; Out-of-it captains of industry Not what it seems ]
• · Dr. Del Dhanoa posted an interesting article called The Implosion of the Blogosphere It's the End of the Blogosphere As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) ; New Communications Blogzine is dedicated to exploring new communications tools, technologies and emerging modes of communication, (including blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, search marketing, etc.), the growing phenomena of participatory communications and their effect on traditional media, professional communications, business, politics and society at large New Communications Blogzine
• · · Mark Riley: When in pursuit of the truth, how down and dirty should a journalist get? Rifling through a minister's garbage bin ; We really shouldn't believe everything in the papers. But we do If it's in the news, it must be true!
• · · · Competitors are circling search engine star Google Search party scans for a new horizon ; Where worlds collide and pupils leave teachers behind
• · · · · If I could subtract all the personal anguish from this, this is a journalist's dream. This is an extraordinary story ... Nothing will ever surpass this in sheer fascination and drama and unpredictability and importance to the community that we serve." It's not easy, though, he adds. "It's utterly exhausting. It's just non-stop. It doesn't let up on the weekends. The story is relentlessly demanding, [but] the beast has to be fed. Covering Katrina is "utterly exhausting," says Times-Pic editor ; I was a journalist doing my job and protecting a source
• · · · · · Editor: Should newspapers be owned by public companies? ; I used up most of my decent thinking about the Blogger-Big Media chaw-down in New York before it happened A New York State of Mind ; News Meets the Global Thought Bubble