With print in rapid decline, there is a lot of discussion (and fear) that journalists are going to be out of work. However, ask anyone working in new media if they would agree with this point. They probably wouldn’t — and I don’t. Steve Pearlstein, a former columnist at the Washington Post and current professor […]
Archive for November, 2011
Journalism isn’t dying — its just finding its way
Posted by: Andrew Knight | November 8, 2011 | No Comment |I swear I’m not stalling. Andrew and I met over the weekend and have decided to split up the huge topic into three blog posts (not including this one): The Before The Current State of Things The Future In “The Before”, we’ll explain how it was before the death of Borders and what e-books are. […]
Samantha Brown is just your modern day travel renaissance woman. She does it all. Samantha Brown hosts quite a few shows on the Travel Channel: Great Hotels, Passport to Europe, Passport to Latin America,Girl Meets Hawaii, Great Vacation Homes, Great Cruises, Great Weekends, Passport to China and the latest, Samantha Brown’s Asia as well some […]
In 1937, an announcer for WLS Chicago — Herbert Morrison — was in Lakehurst, NJ to cover the arrival of the Hindenburg airship. It had just completed its first year of service and had successfully returned from Europe. American Airlines hired the Hindenburg to shuttle passengers from Lakehurst to Newark for connecting airplane flights. It was when they were trying […]
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Tags: Hindenburg, Marissa Ashkenaz, radio, Sensationalism, technology
Tags: Hindenburg, Marissa Ashkenaz, radio, Sensationalism, technology
Sports writing is going through a transition. For the longest time, it was the team and the people who covered it with no allegiances, just off plain observation. Now, there are still team beat reporters, but now teams have brought in some of these writers to report for them. The reason: to control the message.
Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.
Twitter and social media in general has revolutionized we do just about everything.
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The Internet. It’s bigger than every newspaper, television network, radio station and CB line combined. The transfer of information from one side of the world, once taking days, weeks, or even months, is now instantaneous. Through the brilliance of Skype, my next-door neighbor can speak face to face with members of his family back in […]