Sign of the times?
At the Unity 2008 convention of journalists in Chicago this week, a session called "How to get a Media Grant" drew a standing-room-only crowd of nearly 300 journalists, made up of 20somethings to...
View ArticleWho will do serious journalism?
That question is at the heart of many journalists' angst over the disruption of the industry's business model. Dan Gillmor at the Center for Citizen Media proposes one possible answer - he emphasizes...
View ArticlePass the laptop, hon. I want to read the funnies.
Newspaper online readership grew by 12.2 percent in the second quarter of 2008 as compared with a year earlier, with an average 66.4 million unique visitors getting newspaper content via the internet...
View ArticleOur nasty little (email) habit worsens
People are checking email more often, and in stranger places, AOL's fourth annual Email Addiction Survey shows. One in 5 respondents admit checking more than 10 times a day and 59 percent confess to...
View ArticleHave you filed that atomic unit of journalism yet?
At a meeting of the Knight Commission on Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy in Aspen, Colo., Google's Marissa Mayer challenged journalists to re-think how they view their work in a digital...
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