Josh Hallett at Hyku has coined a new phrase “lazy journalism,” which by his definition might be a good thing. In fact, it is having an effect on a story in his home base of Polk County, Florida. First a little more from Hallett about lazy journalism:
I run another blog that some might call hyperlocal. […]
Remember a while back I did an IM Interview with MIT’s Eric von Hippel, on freely revealing your ideas and on lead users? Apparently Jay Rosen and the other folks at NewAssignment.net’s Assignment Zero liked the format and asked for lots more Q&As. The end result is some 50 interviews relating to crowdsourcing. So we […]
After last week’s announcement that LG.Philips LCD developed the world’s first 14.1-inch flexible color electronic paper (e-paper), Crosscut.com reported:
Sometime in the next two years, if Hearst Corp.’s plans work out, a handful of Seattle Post-Intelligencer readers will begin getting their morning news not from the paper on the front stoop or by dropping change in […]
This from the San Francisco Chronicle:
To cut costs and try to adapt to a changing media marketplace, The Chronicle will trim 25 percent of its newsroom staff by the end of the summer.
“This is one of the biggest one-time hits we’ve heard about anywhere in the country,” said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for […]
The Columbia Journalism Review Daily (CJR Daily) runs a story about the demise of political cartooning in USA newspapers. I ran an interview here in 2005 with Clay Bennett, the Christian Science Monitor’s Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and then president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, about the same issue.
This from the CJR Daily:
Finally, […]
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.