Playing off my written post about the coverage of the Bill Clinton rally for Hillary at Kennesaw State University on Friday, Feb. 1, 2008, I decided to put together a little video. Question: How can big media connect better with fragmented audiences via social media? Can they? Should they? Do they want to?
I find myself often getting a little miffed at Clark Hoyt’s Public Editor column for the New York Times. I am again. On Sunday he runs a column that says that of 700 people who wrote to him about the the choice of William Kristol as a columnist only one thought it a good choice. One […]
Butch Ward, in a Poynter online column, looks at the last 10 months of primary coverage, and based on the storylines below asked: Where was the journalism? The storylines include:
McCain’s campaign is doomed.
Clinton’s nomination is inevitable.
Obama is too effete and inexperienced to win.
Giuliani is running surprisingly strong.
Huckabee has no shot.
He adds:
Watching the cable channels cover Tuesday night’s […]
Ruby Sinreich, a well know blogger, is founder of the progressive local politics blog OrangePolitics.org in her hometown of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She understands the limitations of mainstream journalism and thinks blogs can add to what traditional journalism lacks — but she still wants paid journalists to be around. Here are some key quotes from the […]
I received an email from the folks at Minnesota Monitor about the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s new local only editorial policy. Here is the thrust of the policy in a memo from the publisher Chris Harte:
I see the need for our editorial pages, like the rest of the newspaper, to concentrate more heavily than ever on local, state and regional issues. […]
Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.