While few, if any, of you will be able to attend, I still thought you’d be interested in knowing about an event I’ll be participating in tomorrow. I hope to send updates via Twitter, but I’m afraid of AT&T’s data roaming charges on my iPhone so probably won’t do any live-tweeting unless there is wifi. [...]
Can bloggers be journalists? It’s a debate that raged for years in the U.S. (far too long if you ask me), and it can still raise hackles. In Baku, Azerbaijan, it could mean the difference between having a free press or not. Visiting Baku this week and speaking with different groups of journalists and journalism [...]
Journalists in the U.S. are concerned for the future. Journalists in Baku are concerned for the present. I’ll be honest: When I received that first email almost a year ago from Terry Davidson at the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan, expressing interest in translating my book and having me visit the country, my first thought was [...]
This week’s New York Times magazine takes a stab at “What are you really worth” this week and includes a lengthy piece on journalists. I’ll spare you the context of the how the market has devalued traditional journalism while creating new opportunities and simply recommend you read the entire article by Andrew Rice. The money [...]
Thanks to jthomas100tube for recording and publishing video from my talk at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin last week. As I mentioned in the introduction, there were thousands of acts of journalism at SXSWi but thousands of people. This is just one example. The videos are broken up into several parts (even [...]
I’m heading to Austin this week for the South by Southwest Interactive conference and couldn’t be more stoked. I’ve wanted to attend for years. This year, I’m not only attending, I’m speaking. I’ll be doing a “book reading” on the Day Stage on Tuesday, March 16 at 10 a.m. But I won’t be reading from [...]
Remember how you felt the first time your work was recognized with an award? Here’s a chance to return the favor. The National Pacemaker Awards are prestigious annual honors recognizing the best student journalism in the nation. This year I have the honor of judging the online entries (with my friend Ken Sands) and we [...]
Just a couple of quick highlights that you don’t want to miss: News:rewired: If you weren’t in London last week for this one-day conference, fear not, they’ve got you covered. The folks at Journalism.co.uk who organized the event also did a bang-up job covering the event for those who couldn’t be there in person. The [...]
I love the New Year season. The chance to look back on accomplishments from the previous 12 months and look ahead to opportunities for the next 12 is always an exciting time. To coincide with the change in years – and decades – I have a couple of exciting announcements for you, the readers of [...]
Dan Gillmor is at it again. He started the first blog for a mainstream news organization when he was a technology and business columnist at the San Jose Mercury News. Then he wrote We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People in 2004, an important book that remains relevant today. His work [...]
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