I have never been a Tony Kornheiser fan. I thought he was a waste of booth space on Monday Night Football and Pardon the Interruption seems to be totally devoid of any serious reflection or research. Here is Kornheiser on NASCAR Did NASCAR rig things so Dale Earnhardt Jr.could win the pole for Sunday’s Daytona [...]
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Covering the revolution in Egypt
Also from the New York Times Photographers of the increasingly violent upheaval in Egypt are being forced — in the interest of personal safety — to adopt practices that limit their range of coverage at exactly the moment the world is hungriest for as many images from as many perspectives as possible. According to interviews [...]
Media cuts on democracy
I follow Susan Delacourt on Twitter but I missed her excellent blog post on budget cuts in the media impacting democracy until Peter Mansbridge mentioned it tonight on CBC News. Today, with a diminished journalistic workforce on Parliament Hill, handling multiple deadlines and shrinking news space, it’s harder to keep any story in the frame [...]
SEO: The future of journalism?
Aol’s CEO on the future of journalism That’s borne out by a memo from AOL Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong on where his company’s journalism is going. It’s fairly chilling reading, ordering the company’s editors to evaluate all future stories on the basis of "traffic potential, revenue potential, edit quality and turnaround time." All stories, [...]
The New Dan Snyder
Dan Snyder, the owner of a certain Washington based NFL football team that has a racist nickname, is threatening to sue a paper for an article posted if the author is not fired. What’s funny is that the article is not that inflammatory. While it is childish, it’s not any worse than anything written about [...]
What it takes to be a New York Times photographer
Great video and story about what it takes to be a New York Times staff photographer. “I think we’re finished now. Thank you. Thank you.” The voice was clipped, the accent British and the tone could not be mistaken as an invitation to debate. Richard Perry, a staff photographer for The New York Times, was [...]
The New Yorker on Nick Denton
The New Yorker does a profile on Gawker Media creator Nick Denton. There exists in the collective media mind a caricature of Denton as an evil, soulless, Machiavellian puppeteer: the Wizard of Blogs. It is fed in part by some of the familiar pejoratives associated with tech geekery (Denton as anti-social robot, for example), and [...]
Who Won the World Cup? Nike or Adidas
Harvard Business School analyses the impact of both Nike and Adidas’ marketing approaches. With approximately 2.6 billion people worldwide following the 2010 World Cup, the spectacle has been a field day for marketers, each trying to connect their brand with the strong emotions fans have for their favorite teams. But the stakes are particularly high [...]
