Group therapy for journalists

Journalists’ feelings are a hot topic in the blogosphere this year.
In February, Kioshi Martinez, a journalist who crossed to the communications side of the tracks, opened AngryJournalist.com. It’s basically a commenting outpost for people in the trade to rant about how much the field has changed, how little their print publications have adapted to change, [...]

The word economy

Every time a newspaper or magazine is redesigned, the call for additional white space and images shrink the spaces available for articles. New media publications demand that writing be as concise and interactive as possible. Writers’ roles have shifted. We have to think more like television and radio producers and learn to better [...]

“Link journalism”: Sharp or shiftless?

Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 has been working to circulate a new term that he coined: “link journalism.” It’s the process of aggregating stories from on-line publications and blogs that has made outlets like Drudge and the Huffington Post lucrative with minimal overhead, and could be better applied by existing news publications, or used effectively [...]