I’m not going to waste your time over the specifics, but if you have had half an eye on the media industry lately, you can see the debate heating up over what is the next step. No matter what the verdict is about the role the Web will have, journalists are often are avoiding the [...]
Category Archives: Newspapers
Thu
Jul
10
10
There is only one niche on the Internet
I, like many other media-folk, nodded quietly to myself while reading the book The Long Tail. Just to recap: the basic premise of the book is that in the pre-Internet world there was only so much shelf space, so many media outlets, and only so many genres. With the Internet making “store size” limitless, so [...]
Wed
Jun
04
04
Workflow matters: a case for shovelware
Love it or hate it, “shovelware” is a big part of any print publication’s online presence. Shovelware being content that was originally supposed to appear in print being converted for the Web.
Many have argued against this concept of repackaging material for the Web, with the general tenet that the industry is not doing anything [...]
Sun
May
18
18
Can we get past our token “young people” stories?
One would think that with young people flocking from their medium, newspapers and other mainstream media outlets would at least take a second to look at how they cover their hemorrhaging demographic. But instead, we see the same recycled stories with no real depth. Allow me to save them the trouble of thinking [...]
Sat
May
03
03
Obligatory links post during finals
As you can tell, my posting has become very light as I head into the home stretch of my collegiate career. However there are a few bits of info that I have been meaning to blog about:
The Philadelphia Inquirer has become using Twitter. They are doing more than just regurgitating headlines, but *gasp* actually responding [...]