What’s your digital strategy? First, get a grip

REFLECTIONS OF A NEWSOSAUR MUSINGS (AND OCCASIONAL URGENT WARNINGS) OF A VETERAN MEDIA EXECUTIVE, WHO FEARS OUR NEWS-GATHERING COMPANIES ARE STUMBLING TO EXTINCTION By Alan D. Mut­ter, June 5, 2013 More often than you would think, an edi­tor or pub­lisher will con­tact me to ask, “What should my dig­i­tal strat­egy be?” The inquiry is alarm­ing on a […]

Clark Kent Leaves Daily Planet for Cyberspace

Super­man, Clark Kent, resigns from the Daily Planet to become a blog­ger after argu­ing with the newspaper’s man­age­ment over the decline in seri­ous coverage.

Myth #19: You Don’t Need Content to Design a Website

Editor’s note: Lanita Pace-Hinton at the Knight Dig­i­tal Media Cen­ter (based at UC-Berkeley Grad­u­ate School of Jour­nal­ism) shared this site, UXmyths.com, with me. It’s fas­ci­nat­ing, whether you pub­lish web­sites or just read them. This is the kind of stuff we, as jour­nal­ists today, need to under­stand. This is just Myth 19, so don’t neglect to […]

Gloating and the War in the World of Local

Schaden­freude, Part Two: I Apol­o­gize By Deb­bie Galant, Baris­tanet Posted Sep­tem­ber 8, 2011 on Authen­ti­cally Local Schaden­freude, or gloat­ing over another’s mis­for­tune, is not a pretty thing. By def­i­n­i­tion. And though I’m used to being scolded by read­ers, my upbraid­ing by some of the Patch rank-and-file over my last post here has left me unex­pect­edly chas­tened. I meant […]

Readers Can’t Trust Sites that Run Sloppy Copy

Susan older DisplacedJournalists.com news sites lose reader trust when they pub­lish errors and sloppy copy.

KDMC extends application deadline for workshop: Web Publishing for Independent Journalists

The Knight Dig­i­tal Media Cen­ter (KDMC) at UC Berke­ley has extended the dead­line for the Web Pub­lish­ing for Inde­pen­dent Jour­nal­ists Work­shop to Tues­day, Feb.1 at 11:59 p.m. PST. The work­shop will be held March 20–25, 2011 at the UC Berke­ley Grad­u­ate School for Jour­nal­ism. The career path for many of today’s jour­nal­ists is merg­ing with entrepreneurship. […]

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        Is there life – or work – after news­pa­pers? A lot of us are in the process of find­ing out. Because it’s gen­er­ally a some­what lonely endeavor, it struck me, in Jan­u­ary 2010, that it might be com­fort­ing – and pos­si­bly very pro­duc­tive – to go through it together.

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