I heard from someone who helps contribute information and ideas to this site.
A small-town paper he liked in a community he liked advertised for a new reporter — and at a salary that was semi-decent (for the newspaper business.
He regarded the paper as a nearly perfect situation for him and given his experience and writing […]
A couple of computer experts I respect very much collared me recently and painted a fantastic version of the future of American newspapers and how news gathering and news dissemination would be transformed by the Internet.
They noted that now, with a flick of few buttons, you can read nearly any newspaper […]
A few weeks, I had to call the nearest big-city newspaper to ask for help in figuring out Missouri’s state court system.
An editor picked up the phone and said, “Oh yes, so-and-so will be able to explain that to you.”
There was a pause.
“Oops, I forgot. We laid him off this morning.”
Since then, the paper, and […]
The other day I bumped into the father of a former newspaper intern.
The intern had been a keeper. She was smart, had the beginnings of the killer instinct that makes great reporters, and even though she was a high school student, was already a passable writer.
She represented the future of newspapering in America and she […]
In my last post, I discussed the power of “don’t mess with my TV” and how it might affect the Digital TV revolution of 2008 — and like the French revolutionaries of more than 200 years ago, the present-day revolutionaries may find themselves being guillotined by even more radical revolutionaries.
But the power of “don’t mess […]
