‘Citizen Journalism’ is a phrase just like ‘Horseless carriage,’ and we...
News-gathering can be profitable — there are oodles of examples of them. The challenge is taking those dollars to create the most efficiently-produced local journalism. The big solution and sure trend...
View ArticleFuture of News panel for Sunday Breakfast Club @ Union League
The historic, 145-year-old Union League of Philadelphia located on the Avenue of the Arts. A tidy and frail little old man asked me to direct him to the coat rack. To walk him around the corner from...
View ArticleOnline News Association conference 2010: OK, now let’s work together
Online journalism has seen advances editorially, technologically and, more recently and perhaps more importantly, in sustainability, but the industry has yet to efficiently mature its methods of...
View ArticleWe need to deploy ‘Acts of Journalism’
The idea of ‘citizen journalism’ was always going to be short-lived. It did its job to articulate that after generations of highly professionalized news-gathering we needed help. Now both professional...
View ArticleMedia Funders: Value the difference between Creation and Distribution
This post will draw a very bright line between the Creation and Distribution of verified information for communities, and argue for that distinction’s importance for understanding today’s...
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