The Future of Journalism
The conventional wisdom is that journalism, particularly the newspaper business, is finished, a dead tree just waiting for a stiff breeze to knock it over. No small number of electrons have been...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Links
Welcome to Saturday, everyone. Hope you find this stuff as entertaining as I did.I’m not quite sure just what to make of this story: women in bathing sits and cartoonists drawing on them. Interesting...
View ArticleThe End of News? Another Beginning
“[The] image of the Internet as parasite has some foundation. Without the vital news-gathering performed by established institutions, many Web sites would sputter and die.“In their sweep and scorn,...
View ArticleRosenberg on Y Combinator’s Call for Journalism Startups
Yesterday I interviewed Scott Rosenberg at length for the Rumpus, and we spent a lot of time talking about the news industry and how it relates to online publishing, with special reference to...
View ArticlePaywalls Keep Us Out, Them In
Melissa’s post earlier today about newspapers building paywalls and charging much more for online access to their content than for print (or combo) subscriptions, evidently in order to eke out the life...
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