About a month ago, venture capitalist Chris Sacca wrote this on Twitter. Journalism: The art of ignoring all the facts that don’t support the article you’ve already written. I retweeted this and replied: The same could be said for my blogging…. Sacca’s quote generated some discussion on Twitter and some email as well. Some asked [...]
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What’s it like to write for the New York Times
Neil Strauss vs. the New York Times copy editor. Editing an article that quotes the Courtney Love lyric, “I’m eating you / I’m overfed” . . . COPYEDITOR: We have to remove that quote. What’s wrong with it? COPYEDITOR: It’s about oral sex. The whole article hinges on that lyric. COPYEDITOR: If you want, I [...]
The New York Times paywall and the future of journalism
Good editorial in the New York Times about why the New York Times has been quiet about their coming paywall. In it there is this interesting tidbit: The stakes for The Times, which like other newspaper companies has seen major declines in print advertising revenues, are enormous. I asked Mr. Morton to rate, on a [...]
The New York Times Meets Dooce
The paper of record profiles Heather Armstrong. Here is how it started. She is the only blogger on the latest Forbes list of the Most Influential Women in Media, coming in at No. 26, which is 25 slots behind Oprah, but just one slot behind Tina Brown. Her site brings in an estimated $30,000 to [...]
I am 60% that I don’t like Tony Kornheiser. No, make that 100%
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 [...]
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, [...]
