Saturday, August 10, 2013

Are we abusing student sportswriters?

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Along comes yet another company seeking to use student writers to provide content for their online operation without paying them. Like so ...
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Is the story worth it? Ethical questions and journalism

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A recent story about an Illinois professor who killed his family 45 years ago has stirred up an ethical storm. It turns out that the story...
Monday, October 1, 2012

A print challenge to the Times-Picayune

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In an interesting twist as major media companies pull back, offering fewer and smaller print editions, today marks the day the Baton Rouge ...
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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Journalist-based news is most trusted on the web

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A few years ago, the Diederich College of Communication brought in a futurist to speak about the future of newspapers. Surprisingly, she wa...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Is the University of Georgia student newspaper "misunderstanding" over? I doubt it

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Why do I get the feeling that we haven't read the end of the story about the University of Georgia's independent newspaper, the Red...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Is the Journal Sentinel for sale?

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Blogger Bruce Murphy says that it might be, based on the company's buyback of all shares owned by the family of its long-time publisher...

Students, welcome to the real world

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A few years ago one of my nieces was an intern at Teen People when the magazine abruptly closed. It was an awakening to the dark side of m...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

As the media world turns . . .

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Beware of anyone who claims to know what is happening in the media world today. A good example comes from a story today about how the mer...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Newspaper paywalls sprouting -- and working

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The newspaper paywall trend is accelerating, a study finds , to such an extent that 84% of American newspapers now have some sort of paywal...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Satire is a bad word in student newspapers

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Here's a reason why satire is so hard to pull off in print -- especially in student newspapers. People take it seriously.

Study shows paywall revenue to be frontloaded, in one case

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There's an interesting report from Poynter about revenues and paywalls. It finds that about half the first year's total revenue co...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

You don't need no stinkin' reporters to write stories

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If number of stories counts (see previous post), then do we care whether they're written by a human, a community reporter, or someone i...