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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I fully expect that most television journalists will not have dived into a copy of Switching Channels: Organization and Change in TV Broadcasting by Richard E. Caves. Freakonomics it is not.
But Caves is the guy (ok, Nathaniel Ropes Research Professor of […]
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The Columbia Journalism Review takes on a familiar trope - the scarcity of attention - and riffs on it in relation to journalism.
Attention—our most precious resource—is in increasingly short supply. To win the war for our attention, news organizations must make themselves indispensable by producing journalism that helps make sense of the flood of information that […]
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My chums - the Carnivores of Journalism (read in tooth and claw) - are ripping apart the lessons for the news media from the online electoral campaigning of President-elect Barack Obama.
Here’s my message for the old news media. You missed a revenue stream. Auction endorsements.
Don’t be fooled by the SMS and Facebook wrappers. This is not the […]
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Ever wondered where the modern news media started? Germany, 1450s - Johann Gutenberg invents movable type printing and brings out the Bible. Problem with the Bible? You only buy it once.
New translations keep presses rolling. They also raise political problems (like Tyndale’s translation in England). Readers can use their Bible to make up their own minds […]
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It depends on the habit of attending to and looking into public transactions, and on the degree of information and solid judgment respecting them that exists in the community, whether the conduct of the nation as a nation, both within itself and towards others, shall be selfish, corrupt and tyrannical, or rational and enlightened, just […]
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