Month: March 2009

  • Journalism Education: My Unfinished Business

    Whenever people ask me why I left television news (a world which – I have to say – I loved) to run a J-School, I never give the real answer. Because the real answer is just the name of someone they (and you) probably won’t ever have heard of: Richard Wild.

  • What people say they read online vs. What they really read online

    Do people who say they read The Economist online really read The Economist online? The paper’s Andreas Kluth has a great post that digs below the ‘what we say/what we do’ BS. (In the UK, ever wondered why so many people say they watch Channel 4 News but then don’t actually watch it?)

  • And how did newspapers try to save themselves? Hiring people like Clay Shirky…

    Clay Shirky has many criticisms of newspapers, but was one of the industry’s biggest mistakes in the digital era rushing in inexperienced consultants who talked the talk but knew little about businesses and how to build them? As someone wrote in the New York Times in 2001: In 1999 and 2000, I witnessed the arc…

  • Clay Shirky: wrong about newspapers

    Clay Shirky‘s irritatingly trite post (you find it – Clay doesn’t believe in hyperlinking on his blog) deserves an equally irritating and trite response. But in the spirit of pedantry, let’s just pick on one of his small but sweeping asides: β€œThe Wall Street Journal has a paywall, so we can too!” (Financial information is…