The New Old Journalism
The New Old Journalism
Readers are abandoning newspapers in droves, but journalism's not dead yet. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.
By Adam L. Penenberg
2:00 a.m. April 28, 2005 PDT
We've been having a spirited discussion in the journalism department at New York University. With newspapers hemorrhag...more...Vive les Blogs!
... France's parliament on Monday during Les Blogs, a conference drawing over 200 international delegates. Expatriate bloguers will join the fray with a New York gathering in May.
According to statistics from the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education, French is now the most common lan......more... All the News That's Fit to Wiki
...re. Tuesday's lineup, for example, included a story about a discount retailer's plans to open stores in southern Romania along with a piece about the new pope.
Wales said he hopes coverage will be more evenly balanced between regions of the world once more volunteers start contributing to the site.
......more... The Need for Feed(s)
...o use newsreaders to enable readers to more easily scan and search their classifieds, Ferguson said. Readers will be able to sign up for alerts about new listings, such as a car from a particular model year, he said.
Yahoo will soon add newsreader capability to its news page, according to Neil Budde......more... Whither The Wall Street Journal?
...r period.
Because of its immense clout and vast resources -- the Journal might assign half a dozen reporters to the telecommunications beat while The New York Times and Washington Post each have one -- publicists feed it exclusives, sources leak it information and corporate chieftains plead for the ......more... No Protection for Bloggers
..., deserve the same protections under the law that mainstream reporters do? The question is probably moot, but it's not because blogging is relatively new. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.
By Adam L. Penenberg
2:00 a.m. Feb. 17, 2005 PDT
Media Hack Columnist Adam Penenberg
Over the past eight months,......more... Heartaches of Journalist Bloggers
...Commentary by Adam Penenberg.
By Adam L. Penenberg
2:00 a.m. Jan. 13, 2005 PDT
Media Hack Columnist Adam Penenberg
After Chris Allbritton returned to New York from Iraqi Kurdistan, he raised $15,000 and headed back to Iraq in 2003 as the first independent journalist-blogger sponsored by his readers.......more... Newspapers Should Really Worry
...alty isn't just about offering the best product for the best price, as it is with, say, minivans or socket wrenches. It's also about image: Are you a New York Times guy or a Washington Post aficionado? Do you read The Wall Street Journal, The Economist or Fortune? Do you subscribe to Newsweek or Tim......more... Voter Polls Don't Count for Much
...till be in business.
There are various reasons why polling as practiced by Gallup, Marist, Pew and Zogby, as well as media outlets like CBS News, The New York Times, Newsweek, Fox News, Reuters and USA Today that attach their names to them, is more palmistry than science. One built-in flaw is the dr......more... |