Damon Poeter (@dpoeter) writes in PCMag.com (@PCMag) that the percentage of adult Internet users using sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn is now 65%, up from 61% a year ago, according to a report released by the Pew Research Center (@pewinternet & @pewresearch).
Accounting for the percentage of adults who don't use the Internet at all, that still means that half of all Americans now use social networking sites, Pew researchers say.
The number of Americans using such sites has exploded since 2005, when Pew found that just 8% of Internet users, or about 5% of all adult Americans, said they did. The percentage of Internet users saying they use social networking sites has more than doubled since 2008, when 29% of respondents said they were using them, according to the Pew survey.
Pew reports that women aged 18 to 29 are the most voracious users of social networking sites, with 89% of Internet users in that group participating in such sites and 69% of them reporting that they do so daily. Accounting for all age groups, 69% of adult women using the Internet say they’re social networkers as compared with 60% of men.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
Are We Thankful for Freedom of the Press in America?
(from Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac)
It was on this day (September 5) in 1958 that the novel Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak, was published in the United States.
Doctor Zhivago is set during the Russian Revolution and World War I, and it tells the story of Yuri Zhivago, a doctor and poet, and his love for a woman named Lara.
Pasternak worked on his novel for decades, and finished it in 1956. He submitted the book for publication, but although Pasternak was a famous writer by then, his manuscript was rejected —the publishers explained that Doctor Zhivago was not in line with the spirit of the revolution, too concerned with individualism.
An Italian journalist visited Pasternak at his country house and convinced the novelist to let him smuggle a copy of Doctor Zhivago out of the country to the leftist Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. Pasternak is said to have declared as he handed over the manuscript: "You are hereby invited to watch me face the firing squad!"
He was not executed, but when the upcoming publication was announced in Italy, Soviet authorities were furious, and forced Pasternak to send Feltrinelli telegrams insisting that he halt publication of the novel. One of them said: "I have come to the profound conviction that what I wrote cannot be regarded as a finished work," and in another Pasternak called his novel "in need of serious improvement."
But Feltrinelli was not fooled, and continued with publication. Soon enough, Feltrinelli received a private, scribbled note from Pasternak begging him to continue. Pasternak wrote: "I wrote the novel to be published and read. That remains my only wish."
Feltrinelli published Doctor Zhivago, and helped get it published all over the world. The Soviet Union's attempts to stop its publication only made it more interesting to readers. When it was first published in Italy in November of 1957, the first printing of 6,000 copies sold out within the first day. Doctor Zhivago was published in the United States on this day in 1958, and even though it wasn't published until September, it was the best-selling book of 1958. It quickly became a bestseller in 24 languages.
Pasternak was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1958, and when he first heard of the award, he sent a telegram to the Swedish Academy that said: "Immensely thankful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed."
Two days later, Soviet authorities forced him to write again, this time to say he would refuse the prize. Pasternak died two years later, in 1960, and Doctor Zhivago was not published in the Soviet Union until 1988.
Doctor Zhivago begins: "On they went, singing 'Rest Eternal,' and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing. Passers-by made way for the procession, counted the wreaths, and crossed themselves. Some joined in out of curiosity and asked: 'Who is being buried?'—'Zhivago,' they were told.—'Oh, I see. That's what it is.'—'It isn't him. It's his wife.'—'Well, it comes to the same thing. May her soul rest in peace. It's a fine funeral.'"
It was on this day (September 5) in 1958 that the novel Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak, was published in the United States.
Doctor Zhivago is set during the Russian Revolution and World War I, and it tells the story of Yuri Zhivago, a doctor and poet, and his love for a woman named Lara.
Pasternak worked on his novel for decades, and finished it in 1956. He submitted the book for publication, but although Pasternak was a famous writer by then, his manuscript was rejected —the publishers explained that Doctor Zhivago was not in line with the spirit of the revolution, too concerned with individualism.
An Italian journalist visited Pasternak at his country house and convinced the novelist to let him smuggle a copy of Doctor Zhivago out of the country to the leftist Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. Pasternak is said to have declared as he handed over the manuscript: "You are hereby invited to watch me face the firing squad!"
He was not executed, but when the upcoming publication was announced in Italy, Soviet authorities were furious, and forced Pasternak to send Feltrinelli telegrams insisting that he halt publication of the novel. One of them said: "I have come to the profound conviction that what I wrote cannot be regarded as a finished work," and in another Pasternak called his novel "in need of serious improvement."
But Feltrinelli was not fooled, and continued with publication. Soon enough, Feltrinelli received a private, scribbled note from Pasternak begging him to continue. Pasternak wrote: "I wrote the novel to be published and read. That remains my only wish."
Feltrinelli published Doctor Zhivago, and helped get it published all over the world. The Soviet Union's attempts to stop its publication only made it more interesting to readers. When it was first published in Italy in November of 1957, the first printing of 6,000 copies sold out within the first day. Doctor Zhivago was published in the United States on this day in 1958, and even though it wasn't published until September, it was the best-selling book of 1958. It quickly became a bestseller in 24 languages.
Pasternak was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1958, and when he first heard of the award, he sent a telegram to the Swedish Academy that said: "Immensely thankful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed."
Two days later, Soviet authorities forced him to write again, this time to say he would refuse the prize. Pasternak died two years later, in 1960, and Doctor Zhivago was not published in the Soviet Union until 1988.
Doctor Zhivago begins: "On they went, singing 'Rest Eternal,' and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing. Passers-by made way for the procession, counted the wreaths, and crossed themselves. Some joined in out of curiosity and asked: 'Who is being buried?'—'Zhivago,' they were told.—'Oh, I see. That's what it is.'—'It isn't him. It's his wife.'—'Well, it comes to the same thing. May her soul rest in peace. It's a fine funeral.'"
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Be a Stringer!
From the blog of a friend, Dave Fessenden. This is an excerpt--to read the entire entry, click here.
What do Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain and Sherwood Eliot Wirt (the founding editor of Decision Magazine) all have in common?
Well, besides being amazingly accomplished writers, they all began their careers working on a newspaper. And therein lies a lesson. Newspaper experience is a valuable education for any writer.
I hated my first job with the editor’s recurring comment, “This stinks; rewrite it” had something to do with it. But I learned a lot. Having to write on a deadline and making sure I got the facts straight were good disciplines.
I know what you’re thinking — hasn’t the Internet put most newspapers out of business?
Well, it hasn’t helped, but there are still a lot of newspapers out there—well over a hundred dailies and weeklies in Pennsylvania, for example. And many of them have both a print and an online edition.
Your chances of landing a full-time job as a reporter may be slim to none, unless you have a journalism degree and experience, or your favorite uncle owns the paper. Far better to try for a position as a part-time reporter, otherwise known as a stringer. (I don’t know what the origin of that word is, but at one newspaper I worked at, it meant they would “string you along” for months and months with a vague promise of full-time employment.)
You may also find it difficult to get an assignment at a daily paper; the competition is surprisingly fierce. So if you’re having no luck with a daily, try a weekly. And if you can’t get hired as a stringer, perhaps you can write individual feature articles.
What do Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain and Sherwood Eliot Wirt (the founding editor of Decision Magazine) all have in common?
Well, besides being amazingly accomplished writers, they all began their careers working on a newspaper. And therein lies a lesson. Newspaper experience is a valuable education for any writer.
I hated my first job with the editor’s recurring comment, “This stinks; rewrite it” had something to do with it. But I learned a lot. Having to write on a deadline and making sure I got the facts straight were good disciplines.
I know what you’re thinking — hasn’t the Internet put most newspapers out of business?
Well, it hasn’t helped, but there are still a lot of newspapers out there—well over a hundred dailies and weeklies in Pennsylvania, for example. And many of them have both a print and an online edition.
Your chances of landing a full-time job as a reporter may be slim to none, unless you have a journalism degree and experience, or your favorite uncle owns the paper. Far better to try for a position as a part-time reporter, otherwise known as a stringer. (I don’t know what the origin of that word is, but at one newspaper I worked at, it meant they would “string you along” for months and months with a vague promise of full-time employment.)
You may also find it difficult to get an assignment at a daily paper; the competition is surprisingly fierce. So if you’re having no luck with a daily, try a weekly. And if you can’t get hired as a stringer, perhaps you can write individual feature articles.
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Hyperlocal News Site Helps Hurricane Relief
The News Frontier
The News Frontier, The Observatory — August 30, 2011 03:07 PM
After Irene: How a Hyperlocal Is Helping
In the Catskills, the Watershed Post is coordinating relief efforts
By Alysia Santo
In the Catskills region of upstate New York, where flooding from Hurricane Irene wiped out entire towns, a hyperlocal site called the Watershed Post is helping to coordinate relief efforts and trying to connect people who are stranded. This local news web site defines its coverage by the bucolic area surrounding New York City’s watershed. But the area is a “news desert” too, and the damage and destruction people are experiencing has the editors of the site, Julia Reischel and Lissa Harris, scrambling to keep up.
Watershed Post is using a live blog not only to aggregate official updates, but as a forum for witnesses to share information. It’s a service that was desperately needed in the severely damaged, and isolated, area of the Catskills. Residents are using it to find loved ones, or announce people’s location to family members, while also warning readers of bad roads, closed bridges, and other hazards. The blog went live on the site Saturday night and has become a go-to source for many local citizens; multiple posts are coming through every minute.
The blog is being run on an advertiser-supported free live-blogging service called CoverItLive, but the Watershed Post’s version has been so inundated with posts that the ads were interrupting user access. At the request of Reischel and Harris, CoverItLive suspended all advertising for the Watershed Post’s live-blog today.
Meanwhile, Reischel says, they are getting an avalanche of phone calls from area residents who are asking the Watershed Post to help them get a rescue team out to a loved one’s house. “We’re sort of becoming this relief organization,” says Reischel, who, along with Harris, has been constantly working the phone—providing locations to emergency responders, letting them in on reports of people stranded, and updating local residents with real time information on the sort of details that come up when an entire area is flooded. For example, the problem of washed away medications was the subject of a recent post. An area pharmacy offered to deliver prescriptions, and a local physician, Dr. Holly Llobet, offered to write and fill them: “Anyone who needs medication, whet (sic) they’ve lost it in the flood or bec (sic) the CVS is no longer there, I am donating my time to write prescriptions,” said Llobet in a phone conversation with Harris, which was then posted on the blog.
The Watershed Post—covering five counties and fifty towns in the Catskills since last year—is run from Reischel and Harris’s home, and Resichel says they are staying in rather than going out to report, not only because it’s dangerous to drive, but because they “have so much information coming in, and most of it desperately needs organization,” says Harris. “We feel that we are the most useful here.”
Reischel says while the Post is pretty well informed on the communities that are flooded but have power, she is trying to focus on areas that do not yet have electricity. She says the people who have made it out of these no-phone or no-Internet areas are reaching out to the Watershed Post, “frantically requesting information. They feel cut off.”
The biggest need lies in coordinating people who are stranded. “I cannot stress enough, scores of people are stranded,” says Reischel. “They are isolated in their homes and they are terrified.”
Fore more on the Watershed Post, read CJR’s News Frontier profile.
The News Frontier, The Observatory — August 30, 2011 03:07 PM
After Irene: How a Hyperlocal Is Helping
In the Catskills, the Watershed Post is coordinating relief efforts
By Alysia Santo
In the Catskills region of upstate New York, where flooding from Hurricane Irene wiped out entire towns, a hyperlocal site called the Watershed Post is helping to coordinate relief efforts and trying to connect people who are stranded. This local news web site defines its coverage by the bucolic area surrounding New York City’s watershed. But the area is a “news desert” too, and the damage and destruction people are experiencing has the editors of the site, Julia Reischel and Lissa Harris, scrambling to keep up.
Watershed Post is using a live blog not only to aggregate official updates, but as a forum for witnesses to share information. It’s a service that was desperately needed in the severely damaged, and isolated, area of the Catskills. Residents are using it to find loved ones, or announce people’s location to family members, while also warning readers of bad roads, closed bridges, and other hazards. The blog went live on the site Saturday night and has become a go-to source for many local citizens; multiple posts are coming through every minute.
The blog is being run on an advertiser-supported free live-blogging service called CoverItLive, but the Watershed Post’s version has been so inundated with posts that the ads were interrupting user access. At the request of Reischel and Harris, CoverItLive suspended all advertising for the Watershed Post’s live-blog today.
Meanwhile, Reischel says, they are getting an avalanche of phone calls from area residents who are asking the Watershed Post to help them get a rescue team out to a loved one’s house. “We’re sort of becoming this relief organization,” says Reischel, who, along with Harris, has been constantly working the phone—providing locations to emergency responders, letting them in on reports of people stranded, and updating local residents with real time information on the sort of details that come up when an entire area is flooded. For example, the problem of washed away medications was the subject of a recent post. An area pharmacy offered to deliver prescriptions, and a local physician, Dr. Holly Llobet, offered to write and fill them: “Anyone who needs medication, whet (sic) they’ve lost it in the flood or bec (sic) the CVS is no longer there, I am donating my time to write prescriptions,” said Llobet in a phone conversation with Harris, which was then posted on the blog.
The Watershed Post—covering five counties and fifty towns in the Catskills since last year—is run from Reischel and Harris’s home, and Resichel says they are staying in rather than going out to report, not only because it’s dangerous to drive, but because they “have so much information coming in, and most of it desperately needs organization,” says Harris. “We feel that we are the most useful here.”
Reischel says while the Post is pretty well informed on the communities that are flooded but have power, she is trying to focus on areas that do not yet have electricity. She says the people who have made it out of these no-phone or no-Internet areas are reaching out to the Watershed Post, “frantically requesting information. They feel cut off.”
The biggest need lies in coordinating people who are stranded. “I cannot stress enough, scores of people are stranded,” says Reischel. “They are isolated in their homes and they are terrified.”
Fore more on the Watershed Post, read CJR’s News Frontier profile.
How Smaller Gets Bigger
Some thoughts on hyperlocal news sites from Columbia Journalism Review. How viable would a hyperlocal site be for the Warsaw/Winona Lake area?
The Business of Digital Journalism — May 10, 2011 12:02 AM
How Smaller Gets Bigger
By Jan Schaffer
“The future of journalism will be a tale of smaller and smaller organizations making a bigger and bigger impact,” asserts Lisa Williams, founder of Placeblogger.com.
I couldn’t agree more. They will rise and fall, collaborate and compete, succeed and fail—and be replaced by new startups.
So what does this mean for the business of digital journalism? For one thing, it means we have to do business in dramatically different ways—not just collecting money differently. So here are three places to start. Many of these things are already happening and could add to “The Story So Far.”
Identify the players and mind the gaps: Traditional news organizations should take more cues from independent news startups. Value sells. And value derives from engagement and from unique kinds of content.
• Identify the gaps in news coverage and find ways to fill them. This may mean you create a niche product but it could also mean you enter a news partnership with another journalistic outlet that is covering something you’re not.
• Instead of trying to cover twenty areas poorly, pick six to eight and own them. Partner with other news creators locally or nationally for the rest.
• Make sure you know who’s doing what in your community. Map the media assets that you have. Know who the emerging power players are. I have found it shocking how some traditional news outlets are not paying attention to their own news ecosystem. As far as they are concerned, they are the only game in town. Yet we are beginning to see hyperlocal sites (not just Patch.com) expanding to start new sites in nearby towns.
• Nurture the nickels, not just the dimes. Multiple revenue streams begin to add up. Some of the independent news startups are looking at more than just grants and/or advertising. They are cultivating consulting income (web and social media development), content syndication, niche products, and event income that can include registrations fees and corporate sponsorships. These events can produce new kinds of knowledge networks in communities and open the doors for different kinds of support.
While there is much fretting about how new online news outlets have not fully taken the place of traditional news organizations, the fact is that many hyperlocal sites are covering communities that never had much, or any, coverage before. And a growing roster of statewide investigative journalism initiatives are doing some remarkable accountability journalism—and sharing it with other news organizations in their states.
Incubate your competitors. A radical thought or a new opportunity? Nurture not just what’s good for your company but also what’s good for the community and give it buzz. Make your competitors your collaborators.
• Pull a J-Lab. It may sound counterintuitive but invest $150,000 in a greenhouse fund to nurture the best of your local news providers with micro grants tied to collaboration opportunities. I guarantee you will raise the bar for everyone and begin to connect the news silos that are cropping up.
• Put out a call for collaborative enterprise stories. Since last fall, J-Lab helped to seed fourteen Philadelphia stories that are running on multiple platforms with only $70,000 in funding from the William Penn Foundation. You can do this, too.
• Take those empty desks in the newsroom and turn them into them into co-working spaces. Invite community site founders to work alongside you and even pay a token rent. See what ideas that proximity fosters. Know and nurture the ideas in your community before they blindside you.
• Develop citywide Networked Journalism initiatives. For instance, J-Lab’s Net-J pilot project, funded by the Knight foundation, helps support a community manager at a mainstream news organization and provides small stipends to at least five local news sites willing to try collaborating for a year. The Seattle Times has grown its network from five hyperlocal sites to thirty-nine sites; The Charlotte Observer from five to sixteen. The Portland Oregonian just launched its network with seven smaller news sites that want to partner.
As we learned in a recent survey to gauge Seattle readers’ perceptions of these networks, eight in ten of the 996 respondents said they valued both the network of partners and The Seattle Times itself for making it easier to connect with community news. Times editors said the partnerships had bolstered their brand, even if its website did not see a direct traffic gain.
Once you start erecting an infrastructure that helps all media, you are in a position to leverage different kinds of support.
Initiate a different “ask.” So far in the digital journalism world, we have asked people to be advertisers or to be subscribers. We have asked them to be donors or funders. We have asked them to be citizen journalists or poorly paid professional journalists. We have asked them to rate and share our stories.
We have not asked them to do something that might have more appeal: to be “media players”—media players who are charged with being good stewards of a robust local news and information landscape. It rang so true to me when Batavian editor Howard Owens explained, in “The Story So Far,” that many of his local advertisers don’t care about click-throughs, they just want to support the community. We’ve heard that from many startups.
What would such civic stewardship begin to look like? It could take the form of participating in a knowledge network—a series of events in which people meet and learn about civic issues, literary news, legislative priorities, and fun folks in town. It helps if your events generate some water-cooler chitchat.
Don’t laugh: The Texas Tribune has brought in more than $500,000 in event revenue in the last two years. Many of its events are now the place to be, and the Tribune is breaking news that others news organizations find they must cover.
Media players could also belong to statewide Journalism Trusts, donating funds, advice, and their non-journalism expertise (event production, anyone?) to foster robust news and information. Check out the early Vermont Journalism Trust.
Asking people to participate in ways that don’t require professional journalism skills helps re-channel energies and dampen concerns about authority or the accuracy of amateur journalists. And it gets a different kind of attention from prospective funders.
To be sure, the business of digital journalism gives us much to wring our hands about, as the Tow Center report attests. But having judged several journalism awards contests this year, I’m seeing some of the strongest entries coming from new journalism sites, not the traditional players. I’ve just finished vetting another 378 proposals from women media entrepreneurs; the ideas are enormously varied and the applicants’ skills run deep.
What I see missing from so many of the conversations about how we garner support for the future of journalism is the recognition of the low-hanging fruit growing in many communities—independent news entities that are going to continue to launch. We need more new thinking that validates and engages them in the overall enterprise.
The Business of Digital Journalism — May 10, 2011 12:02 AM
How Smaller Gets Bigger
By Jan Schaffer
“The future of journalism will be a tale of smaller and smaller organizations making a bigger and bigger impact,” asserts Lisa Williams, founder of Placeblogger.com.
I couldn’t agree more. They will rise and fall, collaborate and compete, succeed and fail—and be replaced by new startups.
So what does this mean for the business of digital journalism? For one thing, it means we have to do business in dramatically different ways—not just collecting money differently. So here are three places to start. Many of these things are already happening and could add to “The Story So Far.”
Identify the players and mind the gaps: Traditional news organizations should take more cues from independent news startups. Value sells. And value derives from engagement and from unique kinds of content.
• Identify the gaps in news coverage and find ways to fill them. This may mean you create a niche product but it could also mean you enter a news partnership with another journalistic outlet that is covering something you’re not.
• Instead of trying to cover twenty areas poorly, pick six to eight and own them. Partner with other news creators locally or nationally for the rest.
• Make sure you know who’s doing what in your community. Map the media assets that you have. Know who the emerging power players are. I have found it shocking how some traditional news outlets are not paying attention to their own news ecosystem. As far as they are concerned, they are the only game in town. Yet we are beginning to see hyperlocal sites (not just Patch.com) expanding to start new sites in nearby towns.
• Nurture the nickels, not just the dimes. Multiple revenue streams begin to add up. Some of the independent news startups are looking at more than just grants and/or advertising. They are cultivating consulting income (web and social media development), content syndication, niche products, and event income that can include registrations fees and corporate sponsorships. These events can produce new kinds of knowledge networks in communities and open the doors for different kinds of support.
While there is much fretting about how new online news outlets have not fully taken the place of traditional news organizations, the fact is that many hyperlocal sites are covering communities that never had much, or any, coverage before. And a growing roster of statewide investigative journalism initiatives are doing some remarkable accountability journalism—and sharing it with other news organizations in their states.
Incubate your competitors. A radical thought or a new opportunity? Nurture not just what’s good for your company but also what’s good for the community and give it buzz. Make your competitors your collaborators.
• Pull a J-Lab. It may sound counterintuitive but invest $150,000 in a greenhouse fund to nurture the best of your local news providers with micro grants tied to collaboration opportunities. I guarantee you will raise the bar for everyone and begin to connect the news silos that are cropping up.
• Put out a call for collaborative enterprise stories. Since last fall, J-Lab helped to seed fourteen Philadelphia stories that are running on multiple platforms with only $70,000 in funding from the William Penn Foundation. You can do this, too.
• Take those empty desks in the newsroom and turn them into them into co-working spaces. Invite community site founders to work alongside you and even pay a token rent. See what ideas that proximity fosters. Know and nurture the ideas in your community before they blindside you.
• Develop citywide Networked Journalism initiatives. For instance, J-Lab’s Net-J pilot project, funded by the Knight foundation, helps support a community manager at a mainstream news organization and provides small stipends to at least five local news sites willing to try collaborating for a year. The Seattle Times has grown its network from five hyperlocal sites to thirty-nine sites; The Charlotte Observer from five to sixteen. The Portland Oregonian just launched its network with seven smaller news sites that want to partner.
As we learned in a recent survey to gauge Seattle readers’ perceptions of these networks, eight in ten of the 996 respondents said they valued both the network of partners and The Seattle Times itself for making it easier to connect with community news. Times editors said the partnerships had bolstered their brand, even if its website did not see a direct traffic gain.
Once you start erecting an infrastructure that helps all media, you are in a position to leverage different kinds of support.
Initiate a different “ask.” So far in the digital journalism world, we have asked people to be advertisers or to be subscribers. We have asked them to be donors or funders. We have asked them to be citizen journalists or poorly paid professional journalists. We have asked them to rate and share our stories.
We have not asked them to do something that might have more appeal: to be “media players”—media players who are charged with being good stewards of a robust local news and information landscape. It rang so true to me when Batavian editor Howard Owens explained, in “The Story So Far,” that many of his local advertisers don’t care about click-throughs, they just want to support the community. We’ve heard that from many startups.
What would such civic stewardship begin to look like? It could take the form of participating in a knowledge network—a series of events in which people meet and learn about civic issues, literary news, legislative priorities, and fun folks in town. It helps if your events generate some water-cooler chitchat.
Don’t laugh: The Texas Tribune has brought in more than $500,000 in event revenue in the last two years. Many of its events are now the place to be, and the Tribune is breaking news that others news organizations find they must cover.
Media players could also belong to statewide Journalism Trusts, donating funds, advice, and their non-journalism expertise (event production, anyone?) to foster robust news and information. Check out the early Vermont Journalism Trust.
Asking people to participate in ways that don’t require professional journalism skills helps re-channel energies and dampen concerns about authority or the accuracy of amateur journalists. And it gets a different kind of attention from prospective funders.
To be sure, the business of digital journalism gives us much to wring our hands about, as the Tow Center report attests. But having judged several journalism awards contests this year, I’m seeing some of the strongest entries coming from new journalism sites, not the traditional players. I’ve just finished vetting another 378 proposals from women media entrepreneurs; the ideas are enormously varied and the applicants’ skills run deep.
What I see missing from so many of the conversations about how we garner support for the future of journalism is the recognition of the low-hanging fruit growing in many communities—independent news entities that are going to continue to launch. We need more new thinking that validates and engages them in the overall enterprise.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Reactions to CNN Report?
Here is the video clip of last evening's CNN Anderson Cooper 360 report on Hephzibah House in Winona Lake. I'd be interested in your comments on the quality and balance of the reporting.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/09/01/ac-tuchman-ungodly-home.cnn?&hpt=hp_c2
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/09/01/ac-tuchman-ungodly-home.cnn?&hpt=hp_c2
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
WORLD on Campus
Calling to your attention a special college version of the nation's leading Christian newsweekly magazine, WORLD:http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
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