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End of year reviews
I make a brief guest appearance in Matt Cowans‘ review of news futures for Reuters. I’m not quite as apocalyptic as Michael Wolff was last weekend in The Observer: 2006 marked the end of news as we know it, the end of television as we know it, and, finally, the end of moguls as we…
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"Written by fools for the reading of imbeciles"
JOSEPH RAGO “The blogs are not as significant as their self-endeared curators would like to think. Journalism requires journalists, who are at least fitfully confronting the digital age. The bloggers, for their part, produce minimal reportage. Instead, they ride along with the MSM like remora fish on the bellies of sharks, picking at the scraps.”…
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Johnston Press
You can see the Johnston Press‘s version of the future of local media in Peterborough or Halifax. And hey, there are tag clouds! And people do seem to be reading a lot of sport, despite sport being tabbed off the main page, as are readers’ contributions. Personally, I think a quick visit to Spokane‘s local…
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Ultra-local news
Frank Ahrens from the WaPo blogs on his Future of Newspapering piece, profiling Gannett‘s operation in Fort Myers. The hero of Ahrens’ piece is Chuck Myron, and after the hype, I thought it might be instructive to see some of the stuff Chuck is – well – chucking out… Sisters come from Maine to watch…