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Christian Science Monitor: A Change Worth Watching, Or Is It?

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

The Christian Science Monitor announced today that it is going to shut down the paper edition in April 2009 and just publish online. With a paper that does fairly pure high quality journalism that might sound like an experiment worth watching. However,  a trip to the Monitor’s website might diminish the worth of that experiment. [...]

OJR begins week-long look at local online news start-ups

Monday, October 27th, 2008

The Online Journalism Review begins a week-long look at independent, local online start-ups with an interview with the founders of the Voice of San Diego. Its co-executive editors Scott Lewis and Andrew Donohue one day hope to have a $10 million budget and a newsroom of 40.
Other upcoming sites include:MinnPost, ChiTown Daily News, The Batavian, [...]

Overholser: Does Journalism Lack a Social Mission?

Friday, October 24th, 2008

In a short essay at the Online Journalism Review Geneva Overholser asks: Did journalism’s business model distort journalism’s social mission?
She bases her question on a lecture by Adlai Wertman, a professor at USC’s Marshall School of Business. Overholser writes:
Confronted with the nation’s inability to resolve the many ills confronting it, Wertman told the Journalism School: [...]

Jeff Goodell: Citizen Journalists Can Save Environment

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Jeff Goodell, contributing editor at Rolling Stone Magazine and author of Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future, isn’t very impressed with the way professional journalists cover the environment, but does think citizen journalism can save the environment. Listen to this five-minute video interview conducted by Leonard Witt at the Society of Environmental [...]

Save Journalism, Sell Blockbusters for 99 Cents Each

Friday, October 10th, 2008

What if  — and this is really a big “what if” — what if news organizations put together divisions that worked at producing blockbuster productions that people might actually want to download via iTunes or something similar. What if you had produced a video or audio production that was so popular that 100,000 people downloaded [...]

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