Fascinating Facebook app from the Mercury News
November 11, 2007
If you haven’t read about the things the San Jose Mercury News is doing to try to make itself more relevant to readers, you should.
It’s fascinating. And, I know some of my friends might blow milk through their noses at this next comment, but I find it very admirable.
Here’s a link to the PBS MediaShift blog about it. And here’s a link to the newspaper’s ongoing blog about the project.
Normally, I don’t write about things like this on my blog, but this evening I got a message through a friend on Facebook that I should install a new …
I’m not sure it’s really about being the pitcher and the catcher
November 3, 2007
About ten days ago, I started writing a blog post about my updated thoughts on recent J-School grads and what skills I think aspiring journalists should be acquiring.
I promise I’ll finish that badboy soon (mostly because I’ve already got a ton of work in it), but I wanted to comment on a somewhat related post that I saw this morning on PJNet. I encourage you all to read that post.
A lot of what I’m blogging about today I also sent in an e-mail to Leonard Witt at PJNet.
Here goes:
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My message to young journalists hasn’t changed in years:
Be able to …
The washingtonpost.com ‘newsTracker’ for Facebook
November 1, 2007
Our company’s chairman, Don Graham, is probably as big of a Facebook fan as you will find.
Though he’s only had a Facebook account since probably July or August of this year, the guy knows more about how the site works (and more importantly, what it means) than probably any other traditional media executive in the country. And he hasn’t just jumped on the bandwagon — he’s been talking up Facebook for at least two years that I know of.
The guy flat-out gets it.
So, as our team here at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive was building our company’s first Facebook app — …
Are you coming to DC for the ACP/CMA conference?
October 23, 2007
This week, Washington D.C. is playing host to the Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Advisers annual conference.
I will be speaking at this conference on Thursday. This is, of course, the perfect time for a post about the state of journalism education.
But not today. I’ll try to post that blog later this week.
Today, I want to send out an invitation to any students who are going to be in DC for this conference and who would like to spend a couple of hours seeing the Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive offices and talk about journalism with a dork from Kansas.
If time permits, we also …
Transcript from recent phone interview with Northwestern’s Media Management Center
September 11, 2007
A few weeks ago, I did a phone interview with Northwestern University’s Media Management Center for a report that is planned to be released publicly a little later this week.
The report (which is now available for download as a PDF) is called “Running While the Earth Shakes: Creating an Innovation Strategy to Win in the Digital Age.” It’s kind of billed as a study on innovation in the news media.
It’s about 50 pages long and includes interviews with 36 executives from both old and new media companies, including several folks from The Washington Post Company, like my boss, Washingtonpost.Newsweek …
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