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.

WRITERS LIFEGUARD: Mantrae of Our Times

Way back when — in April, 2009 — I called Writ­ers Life­guard No. 16, “Mantrae for Our Times.” It had but four mark­ers of change: Screen is the new Paper Short is the new Deep Pic­tures are the new Words Free is the new Pay Now, more than a year fur­ther into our climb — or plunge — from Gutenberg […]

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Journalists Running Start-Ups Face Tall Odds

By Alan D. Mut­ter Posted Mon­day, June 7, 2010, on Reflec­tions of a New­sosaur Fed up with fur­loughs and down-sizing – or forced invol­un­tar­ily out of their jobs – jour­nal­ists across the land are tak­ing mat­ters into their own hands by start­ing their own news sites. While I applaud these brave and com­mend­able efforts, I fear […]

Remember Good Reporting?

Memo to Harry Smith & CBS, Re: Colonoscopy Cru­sad­ing Some of you are start­ing blogs. Some are start­ing new ven­tures, some of you just appre­ci­ate know­ing that good jour­nal­ism still exists. Gary Schwitzer’s Health­News Review Blog serves as a shin­ing exam­ple of how we can carry on the high stan­dards we held dear before we […]

Sad About My Layoff? Not Me, I’m “The Photo Garden Bee”

Like every­one, I’ve been hold­ing my breath each time rumors regard­ing “down­siz­ing,” “right-sizing,” “cut­backs” or “sac­ri­fices to the stock mar­ket gods” started swirling around the news­room. Unfor­tu­nately, more often than not, most of the rumors have been fol­lowed by real lay­offs of really tal­ented friends and co-workers. This past Decem­ber 1st was no dif­fer­ent. The […]

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Stop the Exploitation of Journalists

The author has shared the lede and link to Monday’s (Feb. 1) post on his blog: “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 It’s time for jour­nal­ists to stop par­tic­i­pat­ing in their own exploita­tion by work­ing for […]

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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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