I had the honor of speaking on a panel at the NABJ Conference in New Orleans yesterday about producing for a multi-platform environment. Here is a quick hit of what I had to offer: The most important step in producing in this era is actually not producing, but listening. You know the saying that to […]
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September 30th, 2013
Fork app featured by USA Today
Thanks to USA Today for featuring Fork in its tech section on Friday. As you might imagine, the number downloads and active users jumped dramatically. It’s great to see our app gaining so much traction so soon after launching. Interestingly, the editors changed the headline midway through the day on Friday. What started as “Fork […]
August 9th, 2013
Announcing Fork: An iPhone app for food, photos and friends
As you know, I love a good side project. I started writing my first book, Journalism 2.0, while I was running the website of the The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash. and, somewhere in the process of setting the alarm for 5 a.m., I formed a habit. Ever since, I’ve had a side project of […]
May 2nd, 2013
Debate this: Is there enough market demand to support quality journalism
In my last post I discussed the first session of the Kiev conference I attended last week. Today I will look at the second session, which was organized as a debate. First off, let me say that debates are a good format that conference organizers in the U.S. should consider. This is the second time […]
May 1st, 2013
Ukraine conference seeks answers to important questions
What will be the new model capable of sustaining the quality news? That was a question pondered, discussed, dissected and debated last week at a conference in Kiev, Ukraine that I was honored to attend. The Foundation for Effective Governance hosted the conference at the Premier Palace Hotel and it drew some 350 attendees. Not […]
February 12th, 2013
Journalism Next now available on Kindle
Just a quick note to let you know that the second edition of Journalism Next, which came out a couple months ago, is now available on Kindle at Amazon.com. Thanks again to the fine people at CQPress who helped make this possible. I’ve heard from many educators, students and professionals who are finding lots of […]
September 26th, 2011
SPJ and RTDNA join forces for Excellence in Journalism
The Society of Professional Journalists and the Radio Television Digital News Association are putting on the Excellence in Journalism conference this week in New Orleans. It is the first time the two venerable journalism organizations have joined forces on an annual conference. I will be taking part in two sessions tomorrow: Ethics for Entrepreneurs, a […]
Mark Briggs 
Posted in Entrepreneurial journalism, It's worth noting 
Tags: conferences, ona, rtdna, spj 
No Comments » March 8th, 2011
SXSW: A guide for journalists
The country’s biggest digital media conference, SXSW Interactive, is this week in Austin. (If you’re on Twitter, you’ve certainly noticed.) It started as a small, niche offshoot of the more popular music conference but has grown exponentially over the past 10 years and, thankfully, so has the presence of journalism at the confab. Many of […]
October 26th, 2010
What you need to know if you’re going to ONA10 in DC
Ladies and gentleman, start your smartphones. The Online News Association’s annual conference kicks off on Thursday in Washington, D.C. It’s the nation’s only sold-out journalism conference each year, meaning this is the place to be if you’re excited about news in the digital age. If you are going and maybe this is your first time, […]
October 18th, 2010
Meaty news topics are popular – and more profitable
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A news editor who pays too close attention to web analytics — especially in pursuit of building page-view inventories for advertising — will surely end up serving readers a steady diet of sugary desserts. Lindsay Lohan is the cake and Tiger Woods’ divorce is the ice cream […]
