May 2011
13 posts
Reel Grrls vs. Goliath Comcast →
An innocuous tweet from a nonprofit Seattle group that teaches girls video skills prompted a Comcast VP* to threaten funding cuts to the group. How small.
The good news: Reel Grrls decided to pass on the $18,000 in Comcast funding anyway. And it taught these girls a priceless lesson in our media-saturated world — that independent voices matter.
* I was a fellow reporter with the offending veep,...
"Dilbert's" Advice to B-Students: Scheme
It’s the season for parting words to graduating college seniors, and two of the best columns I’ve read come from disparate corners.
Scott Adams, creator of the cynical workplace comic strip “Dilbert,” targets the not-so-exceptional student in a post for The Wall Street Journal. He claims he was just such a student, never thrilled to be sitting in a classroom but always, always thinking and...
The Human Side of @nytimes
The New York Times is experimenting this week with turning off the automatic headline feed in its main Twitter account and using real staffers to engage audiences. Brilliant and long overdue.
I’ve griped about mainstream media Twitter accounts here and in presentations around the country. My own research on conversational journalism shows mainstream online news audiences respond like...
Update: Curious Incident of the Disappearing...
MAY 26, 2011: Two Pacific Lutheran University students have been referred to a student-conduct committee for investigation in the theft of half our newspaper run two weeks ago (roughly 700 papers). Police and administration officials still won’t give us details, including who the students are or what their motives were. But we have some ideas. I’ll keep you posted when I can release...
Journalism as a Conversation: Minnesota Public... →
seoulbrother:
Just dropped Sweets off at the airport and for a hard-mouthed journalist that’s rarely impressed with herself, she is downright giddy over this.
If you’re into the nerdery of journalism, this may be worth a watch tomorrow morning. If not, you’re probably dead to me. Just kidding, you’re dead to me for different reasons.
Also, I love you.
sasquatchmedia:
Not long after I started...
Minnesota Public Radio, Here I Come ...
Not long after I started my Ph.D. program at Missouri School of Journalism, I learned about an unusual — and highly successful — effort at conversational journalism.
Minnesota Public Radio’s 8-year-old “Public Insight Journalism” initiative sought to put into action what a lot of people had been preaching: deeply collaborative reportage between professionals and interested audience members. At...
The Curious Incident of the Disappearing...
UPDATE MAY 15, 2011: Two Pacific Lutheran University students have been referred to a student-conduct committee for investigation in the thefts. Police and administration officials won’t give us details, including who the students are or what their motives were. But I’ll keep you posted if I find out more.
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