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I’m over the fact I won’t see my name in print anymore 10 Jul 2012 | 01:59 am
Most people tend to be really excited to see their name in print, which is why it confused others when I just shrugged if I saw my byline in a newspaper. When I was an intern at the Santa Barbara Inde...
‘The Newsroom’ satisfies my need for a news show that’s newsy. Watch it bomb. 25 Jun 2012 | 08:56 pm
Think about it: When was the last time there was a good, long-running show about a newsroom? “Murphy Brown” comes to mind, and that ended before I lost all of my baby teeth. One could make a case for ...
Student journalism is worth the rising costs 30 Apr 2012 | 11:51 am
This might surprise the technologically inclined, but most college students don’t expect their campus news on a phone or tablet – they find it printed on newspaper. Editors say over and over that stu...
As editors dream up online strategies, the short-term future of college newspapers remains in print [Video] 25 Apr 2012 | 12:57 am
Flickr gallery While the current trend among newspapers in this country is to throw brains and money at the online side of the business, student newspapers are just getting strategies in place to put...
Boston Globe Lab is full of ideas. Great, now where do they fit in a newsroom? 18 Apr 2012 | 03:12 pm
Chris Marstall in front of the picture map at the Globe Lab. The newspapers still (relatively) flush with money should do the right thing and invest in researching how people, and their readers, use ...
A Pulitzer win for David Wood is a win for the future of HuffPo and online-only journalism 18 Apr 2012 | 02:31 pm
Photo/@joshuahersh Poynter tried to tease media junkies yesterday morning before the 2012 Pulitzers were announced, but I saw one of the big news pieces of the day about an hour before official annou...
Who cares what you like to read? 16 Apr 2012 | 05:51 am
I have The Washington Post’s social reader installed on by Facebook account. Why? Good question. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but the more I saw my friend’s messages floating down my feed,...
Journalism in China is “almost like playing a video game” 4 Apr 2012 | 05:19 am
Wu Nan, March 29, at Northeastern University Based on Nieman fellow Wu Nan’s testimony about her work in Chinese journalism, being a reporter in that country has similar appeal as eating fire. Rememb...
New media grows up by changing old guards 29 Mar 2012 | 02:23 am
The news Chris Hughes scooped up the long-suffering political magazine The New Republic earlier this month took me by surprise. Not so much that Hughes – Mark Zuckerberg’s old Harvard roommate and one...
Old habits die hard 28 Mar 2012 | 10:09 am
Here’s the news peg: The Boston Globe this morning announced something that sounds much more interesting than it actually is. Their new ePaper sounds like the best of both worlds, seeing the print ver...
