The U.S. election is over. Next comes the first We Media presidency. What does that mean? Join us for a breakfast mixer and conversation on Nov. 13 at the Samsung Experience in New York to talk about how We Media – not THE media – will cover the Obama presidency. Speakers will include Amanda Michel, […]
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will make $5 million in grants in the next round of its News Challenge. The News Challenge supports innovative uses of media and technology to help meet the information needs of communities in the connected culture. Think fast. The deadline is Nov. 1. Apply here. Andrew NachisonAndrew […]
Owned by a church but proudly agnostic in its reporting, The Christian Science Monitor will still have a web site and a weekend print edition. So: There will still be something left to cut when this 100-year-old candle burns out completely. More via Rick Edmonds at Poynter.org. Andrew NachisonAndrew Nachison is founder of We Media. […]
The publisher of Fast Co. and Inc. magazines recently eliminated its digital division, laid off 20 employees and merged responsibilities for the company’s print and online publishing products. That doesn’t mean the company has lost faith in digital. John Koten, CEO of Mansueto Ventures, expects his company will grow through digital markets and a smarter […]
Photos: Creative Commons via Flickr from Bobster1985, lisatozzi, jeffpearce and Annie Mole. The practice of professional journalism is like the practice of professional sports. It’s physically demanding, dirty, and success requires a combination of skills, talent, experience and luck. But it’s different in one glaring respect. Sports fans love their teams, the players and the […]
Bono is a rock star musician. Jeffrey Sachs is a rock star economist. This week, they were also bloggers for FT.com. Read their posts and you can see clearly how people with passion and purpose can produce journalism that stands out from the routine, gutless reporting we’ve been indoctrinated to view as normal and right.
PC pulls an advertisement in the guise of an editorial, called “Stop Switching to Mac”, from the sacrosanct news wall on today’s front page of NewYorkTimes.com. Washingtonpost.com, too. A godlike Mac watches and comments just below the nameplate. Dale PeskinDale is co-founder emeritus of We Media. www.wemedia.com
Here are three web sites that allow you to rapidly scan and ingest all the data and every shred of news about the U.S. presidential election, and track the trends quantified by a relentless stream of polls.
The University of Southern California has revived the Online Journalism Review, which had shut down earlier this year. Andrew NachisonAndrew Nachison is founder of We Media. He lives in Reston, Virginia. www.nach.com
With retrenchment and job reductions — oh, let’s call them what they really are: mass firings — as subtext, three of the more influential clubs associated with the newspaper industry held their annual conventions last week. There were hopeful twists amid fear and loathing. The Society for News Design and the Associated Press Managing Editors […]