June 2009
16 posts
The Atlantic has a few back-handed compliments for the Economist ‘newspaper.’ Sure, it is financially and editorially successful, but isn’t its editorial content just ‘blogging?’ asks the Atlantic. ‘It never gets scoops… and the science-and-technology pages tend toward Gladwell-lite popularizations of academic papers from British universities.’ Burn.
Amil, this one is for you.
One of the suspects in the Zodiac killings has come forth and written his side in an article.
He says ‘I didn’t do it. I wasn’t there. And my accuser is a nut who sends cryptic messages to my office and holds press conferences. ’
Oooh, scary.
Emily Bell, head of digital content at Guardian News and Media and visiting professor at University College Falmouth, gave a lecture on online journalism. She made some points worth remembering.
1. It will go where the audience is. Instead of hoping that people will go to their website to read or watch the news, journalists will need to take their stories out to where the readers and viewers...
The Village Voice says that 40% of its traffic is coming from its blogs rather than the posted printed material.
Jane Elliot, who became famous with her 1968 Brown Eyed/Blue Eyed experiment which taught third graders to discriminate against each other (Here’s the documentary) has spent the last few years working with adults about racism.
In the U.S., I use the Dove Counterbalance Intelligence Test, which was a test designed for the purpose of giving white folks a chance to have their IQ scores...
Stephen Colbert to guest-edit next week’s Newsweek
Mr. Colbert will help design the cover of the magazine, he’ll write an editor’s note and he’ll be adding annotations to Mr. Meacham’s weekly editor’s note. Mr. Colbert said that he helped hand out assignments, and will play around with columnist’s biographies and help pick out pull quotes for stories. There will be a section dedicated to...