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Archive for May, 2004

A Public Journalist’s Greatest Fear

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004

And I thought this was something only I worried about.
Thanks to Prints the Chaff for the pointer.

When the Web Is like Small Town Life

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004

There’s a tiny, almost throw away, interview Brooke Gladstone of NPR’s On the Media has with Andrew Oppman, editor of the Appleton (Wisc.) Post Crescent, which I think inadvertently becomes a symbol for the changing dynamics of the news media.
Oppman is being interviewed about an editorial where he asks readers to send in [...]

Chris Waddle Named Nieman Fellow

Tuesday, May 18th, 2004

Chris Waddle
CHRIS WADDLE, vice president/news, The Anniston Star, and president, the Ayers Family Institute for Community Journalism and a charter member of the PJNet, has been selected as a Nieman Foundation fellow.
His project: The reporting of globalism in the heartland. The study will prepare for the start of an original master’s program he [...]

Japanese Trend: Millions Get News Via Their Phones

Monday, May 17th, 2004

I had dinner last week with Shayne Bowman as we planned for the Exploring the Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism Conference on Aug. 3 in Toronto. We were talking about the potential of wireless, and he said pay attention to Smart Mobs because its founder Howard Reinghold says look to what is happening [...]

Confessions of a Multi-Blogger

Monday, May 17th, 2004

A while back Trudy W. Schuett left a comment here about how she had several blogs and double the readership of her local paper. I thought that fairly interesting so I asked her to tell us us more about her blogs and about what it meant to have a blog audience that is double your [...]

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