Excellent story in the Journalists Resources blog on the importance of newspapers. To put it simply: a prof at Portland State University named Lee Shaker set out to quantify the question by coming up with a measure of civic engagement and then looked at two cities with newspapers that went away (the Rocky Mountain News, inContinue reading “Do newspapers still matter? PSU study says yes”
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Millennials: No newspapers, please. TV news? Meh.
Newspapers are still with us, for a few more years. And, blessedly newspapers such as The Guardian have made free Internet access central to their mission (as discussed enthusiastly last week in The New Yorker). So the newspaper industry staggers on — for a while. But this past weeked Andy Kohut for Pew Research notContinue reading “Millennials: No newspapers, please. TV news? Meh.”
The trials and tribulations of the Newsosaur; er, reporter
In the last couple of weeks a virtual avalanche of appalling news about newspapers and their field workers — the species newsosauras, according to one wit — has come down on me. On a list of best and worst jobs, according to a career agency cited by the WSJ, reporters come in 196th, almostContinue reading “The trials and tribulations of the Newsosaur; er, reporter”
“Information Wants to be Free”…
Apparently at the first Hackers' Convention, way back in l984, Stewart Brand declared that "Information wants to be free." It's a great phrase, unless you are a writer, a musician, an artist, or another "content provider," in which case the phrase is a ticket to poverty. The correct translation is, I believe, "people are freakingContinue reading ““Information Wants to be Free”…”
Clark Kent in the 21st Century
This comes from a site called Shortpacked that I am too old to understand, but I still think this panel is freaking hilarious.
Kit Stolz 