Category: Journalism

  • Lloyd Shepherd takes what’s left of Dan Gillmor‘s balloon from Rich Skrenta and does whatever you do with burst balloons that’s worse than bursting them…no suggestions please.

  • A new book on news shockingly makes the point that it is…a commodity! And information is…marketed – let’s hope James T. Hamilton’s book goes a little bit further than that.

  • Them the media

    Rich Skrenta bursts Dan Gillmor‘s We The Media balloon: There is still a power law to success, and the few continue to reap disproportionate rewards, as they always have. Pub media turns out to be a farm league for big media. The bloggers who “make it” look more and more like regular media than “us”.…

  • Anti-social media 2

    John Robinson’s blog has an excellent take on social media and journalism from one of his correspondents (in the original sense, for once). Here’s his: Visit the letters to the editor blog and you’ll find some commentary on the letters of the day and a good deal of social conversation by the frequent visitors who…