Category Archives: journalism
Your solution to the news crisis will not work. Here’s why.
After Metafilter’s 400th thread about saving journalism, I realised all my answers were saying the same thing. So I posted a new version of this Slashdot comment-turned-meme to speed up snarking: Your blog advocates a technical/legislative/market-based/crowd-sourced approach to saving journalism. … Continue reading
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editing
In Salon, Gary Kamiya writes in praise of editors: The art of editing is running against the cultural tide. We are in an age of volume; editing is about refinement. It’s about getting deeper into a piece, its ideas, its … Continue reading
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advertising as conversation
John Battelle wants you to think of advertising as a conversation. That thought has made quite a lot of money for him and Federated Media. Except last week they got slapped about by readers for inviting their authors to become … Continue reading
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