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What’s it really like to head up a world class news organization? The New York Times’ Bill Keller shares with readers the loneliness of command:
Q. I think a lot of young journalists and editors, myself included, are curious about what a day in the shoes of Bill Keller is like. Can you walk us through a […]
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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 Political Economy at Harvard) who suggested something that may be appealing to journalists when […]
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Here is an edited version of Rupert Murdoch’s Boyer lecture - The Future of Newspapers: Moving Beyond Dead Trees. One word summary? Brands.
But here it is:
Too many journalists seem to take a perverse pleasure in ruminating on their pending demise. I know industries that are today facing stiff new competition from the internet: banks, retailers, phone […]
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I finished college at twenty-two. I was going to do six months training on Fleet Street, which was the mecca of competitive journalism. I sat in on the Daily Express, and I enjoyed it so much, I thought, I gotta have a job here, just to learn.
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This being part of the Carnival of Journalism (and late), ringmaster Doug Fisher asks: what changes will need to be made in national and international legal systems to help the digital age, and especially journalism in the digital age, flourish?
At the risk of making myself unpopular, in our own digital realm - journalism - many of […]
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So what was the point of that special committee to oversee editorial independence at the Wall Street Journal? I must remind myself.
Oh yes.
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The Project for Excellence in Journalism has a nice run of numbers on the Wall Street Journal, pre- and post-Murdoch.
Of more interest to me is how the WSJ now lines up against the New York Times.
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A blog about how we inform ourselves and why: journalism, the media, news, communications and information
“Let there be no doubt that whatever sacrifices we journalists make, they are not made for our own glory or enrichment: they are made for you. Whether you deserve their sacrifice is another matter.”
Lasantha Wickrematunga
