adrian monck

Category: Journalism

  • Get Published!

    Just caught up with a great piece in Wired on Gannett‘s crowdsourcing strategies. Here’s lesson number one from a woman on the sharp end at the Cincinnati Enquirer: Linda Parker has a memo for professional journalists: Contrary to the fear rippling through newsrooms, citizens don’t want your job. They don’t want to interview obscure officials…

  • Great financial reporting

    Now if there were more of this in the new News Corp. Wall Street Journal…Marc Andreessen has a great annotated version of a letter to investors in a collapsed hedge fund. It’s so good, I make no apology for running it in full: …the letter Sowood [the hedge fund] wrote to its investors is a…

  • New MyTelegraph: pic=1,000 words

  • The wisdom of Neil Postman

    Mike Rosenblum has been riffing over on his blog about Neil Postman and the U.S. presidential debates. Back in the day, Postman wrote 1980s media classic Amusing Ourselves to Death, which blames telegraphy for all our modern woes. IMO, before the telegraph, information overload came in the the form of religious works (try reading the…