June 2011
21 posts
“Journalists are now drowning in documents and data. The tools we have to deal...”
– Jonathan Stray, interactive technology editor for The Associated Press, which won a Knight News Challenge grant to develop data visualization tools so that journalists can find the stories contained in mountains of data and documents.
“There’s a desperate competition which leads newscasts to provide what the public...”
– Ted Koppel talks with Howard Kurtz about the “CBS Evening News” with Scott Pelley, not Katie Couric
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“You cannot promote your private, paid speaking business on the basis of your NPR...”
– Jim Cameron, volunteer program director for public-access station Darien TV79, about NPR’s Dina Temple-Raston’s refusal to allow a talk to be videotaped.
“This “competition” between HuffPo and the NYT is a false one, whether comparing...”
– Top news sites lose unique visitors in May, while traffic peaks for many
“Good luck playing hopscotch in the bureaucratic minefield that is the FCC. If...”
– Comment posted on Steve Waldman’s blog in 2009 after he announced that he would lead an FCC taskforce on the future of the media. The FCC report came out yesterday, and it shows how support for government journalism subsidies has fizzled. Romenesko has a roundup of reaction and analysis.
“The FCC team that wrote the report coined the term “hamsterization” (based on a...”
– FCC report: Local TV ‘more important than ever,’ but thin on accountability reporting
“it’s like whispering to your companion during a dinner party: you might not get...”
– Susan Orlean on sending private messages via social media (via newyorker)
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You know who's sick and tired of bad press? →
utnereader:
The millennials, that’s who.
“Mike: Do you think that ProPublica is partly responsible for the growth of non...”
– From the transcript of an interview with ProPublica’s General Manager Richard Tofel.
Interesting conversation, and of course we were happy to see the MinnPost mention.
(via minnpost) 