Rather than kill trees to make handouts, and in the spirit of sharing with others, I’m using this blog post to publish a list of links to Web sites I plan to discuss today during a panel discussion at an SPJ workshop for freelance journalists in Seattle. The focus of my material will be examples […]
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March 5th, 2009
Vote now: What should I call my next book?
Many of you know that I’m working on an updated version to my first book, Journalism 2.0, that will be published as a college textbook in the fall and my editors and I are struggling to find the right title. So I need your help. People have asked if it will be called “Journalism 3.0″ […]
March 4th, 2009
Journalism That Matters is now entrepreneurial
We’re closing up the Journalism That Matters session at Poynter this morning. A final exercise had us put fingers to keyboard and explain our place in the “new news ecology.” Here’s my 10-minute take: The new news ecology is authentic, collaborative and transparent. Technology enables it, but should almost be taken for granted. Anything is […]
March 2nd, 2009
Fire starter for Journalism That Matters
Participants in the Journalism That Matters conference at Poynter were asked to bring a “fire starter” to get the discussion going, something “to spark a conversation about the emergence of a new news ecology.” Along with the assignment, we were given four examples of a fire starter: 1) From Rusty Coats, VP Interactive for Scripps: […]
March 1st, 2009
Best possible outcome for Poynter’s Journalism That Matters
I was planning to attend the Journalism That Matters conference at the Poynter Institute that started today, but a snowstorm in Atlanta re-routed my flight to Huntsville, Ala. which is where I’ll be for the night. (I hope to make it to Poynter tomorrow.) Ellyn Angelotti, Poynter’s digital media guru and conference co-organizer, just sent […]
