Things Journo Grads Should Do
Start a blog, take some pictures, create an amazing video. Congrats on graduating. Now get to work.
Saving the News: A Headache That Won’t Go Away
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, [...]
Plumbers, Foreign Correspondents and the New York Times
Lost in the snickering that Pajamas Media is sending Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher to Gaza as its “War Correspondent,” is the fact that PJTV.com is sending Wurzelbacher to Gaza.
Crowd-Funding the News
The New York Times Week in Review profiles Spot Us, a non-profit news outfit that seeks community funding to pursue investigative stories. The organization got off the ground with a $340,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to pursue the idea.
Crowd-funding has been used by independent record labels and non-profit fund raisers. Let’s see if [...]
