February 2011
15 posts
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Road to Austin: Do's and Don'ts of Conversational...
For the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing highlights of the talk I’ll give next month on conversational journalism at the South by Southwest conference. (Special shout-out to Albert, Geoff and Jeremy for help with the SXSW proposal.)
One of the key findings from my experimental research: Online news audiences expect (assume?) mainstream journalists use the Internet to its fullest...
Seattle Times Op-Ed: Legalize Pot →
Whoa. Not the “Fairview Fanny” I grew up with. Fascinating turn in the debate:
“In 1998, Washington was one of the earliest to vote for medical marijuana. It was a leap of faith, and the right decision. In 2003, Seattle was one of the first places in America to vote to make simple marijuana possession the lowest police priority. That, too, was a leap of faith, and the right...
Hollywood's Whiteout →
A must-read from NYTimes on the whitening of American film. The lede:
“CRAMMED into this year’s field of 10 best picture Oscar nominees are British aristocrats, Volvo-driving Los Angeles lesbians, a flock of swans, a gaggle of Harvard computer geeks, clans of Massachusetts fighters and Missouri meth dealers, as well as 19th-century bounty hunters, dream detectives and animated toys. It’s a...
Journalism at the Movies
Received an e-mail at 3:19 a.m. PST today from a pre-law student watching a TV movie about undercover journalists — she wanted to tell me she got into it because of a media class she just took with me. That is the stuff that makes a teacher swoon. Got me thinking about the many great flicks out there about journalism.* My favorites:
“All the President’s Men:” Investigative...
