San Francisco Postcard from the FJP

June 2010 Category: Musings

Greetings from the Future Journalism Project. We started filming in San Francisco and made our way around the Bay talking education, business models, journalism practice and journalism’s role in democracy. Here are a few minutes of what we found.

Magazine iPad Apps? We’ve Played this Game Before

May 2010 Category: Musings

The holy grail for Web designers has always been the pixel perfect layout afforded in print design. Some publications jumped to Flash in order to replicate the print experience. That experiment was a failure. Enter the iPad.

To Create or Aggregate, That’s Not the Question

April 2010 Category: Musings

Michael Wolff wacks Sharon Waxman with a douchebag stick after she complains Newser is stealing her site’s content. Things are getting messy in the online journalism sandbox but people are paying attention to the wrong things.

Saving the News: A Headache That Won’t Go Away

February 2009 Category: Musings

The endless chatter about saving journalism is a growing headache that won’t go away. Day after day there’s another article, talk, email thread, tweet or general missive about the impending death of an industry and by extension democracy as we know it.
However, in a rare instance where the newsroom and the boardroom actually agree, [...]