Saturday, August 18, 2012
How to Save the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily NewsJoel Mathis, writing at Philadelphia Magazine‘s blog The Philly Post, may have a point. But going online-only would require a serious modernization of the Philly.com brand and site design. I don’t see the ownership having the vision to …Saturday, August 18, 2012
Fareed Zakaria Apologizes for ‘Lapse’; Faces Time and CNN SuspensionsI would be honored to work for Time, CNN, The Atlantic, or The New Yorker. While I may require some on-the-job journalism training, I will absolutely do my own work 100% percent of the time.Saturday, August 18, 2012
This is a story within a story. The outer story is about Reverend Robert Carlson, who killed himself recently amid a sexual abuse investigation. This post isn’t about that story. It’s about the inner story, about a reporter using a copyrighted photo without attribution, and claiming fair use when …Saturday, August 18, 2012
Philadelphia newspapers CEO’s message to employeesJim Romenesko, quoting the letter from Bob Hall, CEO at Interstate General Media, which owns Philly’s major papers: We must produce products that reflect the needs of our readers, viewers, advertisers and future prospective customers. This is …Saturday, July 28, 2012
Updated 12:00 p.m: Kara Swisher reached out to me on Twitter after I published this post (her tweets and my replies here, here, here, here, and here). She said she only made minor edits to things like commas and contractions, and that she thought people would assume that she didn’t rewrite the …Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Co-creator Jim Ray of Mule Design describes Evening Edition like this: It’s a summary of the day’s news, written by an actual journalist, with links to the best reporting in the world, published once a day. Last night, in between reading the news using various Android apps, I spotted a link to …