Conversations About the Internet #2: Scott Rosenberg on Blogging and Journalism
What motivates bloggers? They care. It’s as simple as that. To a lot of journalists that comes as a shock, because for many (not all) it’s just a job,…
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The Price of Non-Profit Press
Saying the word “journalism” these days is like openly inviting those around you to either deliver a lecture on the evils of technology, pontificate about the end of the written…
Random Media Notes
The Daily Beast gets into book publishing. “Dan Rather’s Case Against CBS Dismissed” New York Times pay model will be a “gut call.” Bernie Goldberg calls out Fox News’ journalistic…
Random Media Notes
The FBI destroys Walter Cronkite files. Nick Denton tweets about the secret behind Gawker’s biggest successes. A new study shows that print and online ‘could work in tandem.’ “France to…
Random Media Links
“FCC Endorses Network Neutrality” Activists behind yesterday’s NY Post parody have been detained by police. “Glenn Beck: McCain Would Have Been Worse Than Obama” Journalism still finding recruits, if not…
A Look at the Journalism Job Market
As the internet continues to take over the world, more and more of us begin to fancy ourselves as writers and hop on the blog-wagon, but how many viable journalistic…
Random Media Notes
Rupert Murdoch is pounding the paid content drum again. Is CBS attempting to erase Dan Rather? “HuffPo Appoints New President And CRO” New York and Fortune both put pot front…
Raymond Carver: Vicarious Slumming for the WSJ
It’s Raymond Carver night at the Rumpus! Moments after I wrote and scheduled the preceding post, I saw this tweet from the Library of America: “WSJ on Raymond Carver: ‘There…
Mexico May Be Having A Tough Year
With the Grand Guignol that is the drug-fueled civil war gripping the country. The LA Times, trying to summon the glory of its former self as a top notch international…
Nash on Books as a Commodity
“We tend to view history in terms of one age succeeding another, the greater vanquishing the lesser, or the tawdry always winning out over the elevated. “The reality, Striphas demonstrates,…
Mark Bowden Battles The Bloggers
The esteemed journalist Mark Bowden is back with another thought-provoking article on the digital media revolution. It is at once deeply reported, crisply written — and strangely myopic in its…
Paywalls Keep Us Out, Them In
Melissa’s post earlier today about newspapers building paywalls and charging much more for online access to their content than for print (or combo) subscriptions, evidently in order to eke out…