PressThink: Ghost of Democracy in the Media Machine, by Jay Rosen.
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Tree House Media Project Debuts. Self-reliance for angry journalists, preached by a former member of the tribe. Plus: "Last gasp of the curmudgeon class." NEWSROOM ID EXPLODES LIKE FIREWORKS OVER INTERN'S UPBEAT BLOG POST. Newspaper revanchism 'splained.
Read Big Daddy Newspaper Has Gone and Left Journalism (Links)
"Like reluctant migrants everywhere, the people in the news tribe have to decide what to take with them. When to leave. Where to land. They have to figure out what is essential to their way of life. They have to ask if what they know is portable."
Read Migration Point for the Press Tribe (Links)
David Cohn is moving on to figure out if crowdfunding can be made to work for news. Another young web-savvy journalist is moving in: Patrick Thornton. He's going "scour the Web for the people who are pushing the practice of beat reporting."
Read Update on Beatblogging.org Six Months In (Links)
OffTheBus and NewsTrust.Net ran a little test two weeks ago. It's a crowdsourced week in review feature for high quality John McCain coverage, June 2 to 9. Here's the background and results.
Read Filter the Best Stuff to the Front Page: A Demo (Links)
"Trust me because I mask my true feelings about the matter" is not an inherently better way to journalize or gain cred. "Trust me because I show you what my true feelings on the matter are..." can also work." And if it has pro and amateur wings maybe the press can fly again.
Read When Mayhill Fowler Met Bill Clinton at the Rope Line (Links)
I never expected McClellan to write a book about being the jerk at the podium for Bush, or to make connections between his experience and the larger wreckage of the Bush presidency. But he's done just that.
Read What Happened to Scott McClellan in Longer Perspective: 100 Years of the White House Press (Links)
"The imagery is geological: the release of trapped deposits. He thinks we can reverse the time sink for people once marooned on the receiving end of a one-way system that didn’t care what you thought or brought to it, since it couldn’t afford the costs of interacting with you."
Read Looking for the Mouse in Media: Clay Shirky on Deploying the Cognitive Surplus for Public Good (Links)
The Cap Times was re-born to Madison on Saturday. Ambivalence was felt about the lost authority of print-on-paper news. Generational blues were sung, a flying leap taken. Now a progressive newspaper must make real progress on the Web.
Read The Presses Stop But the Press Goes On: Capital Times Lives on the Web (Links)
It’s remarkable to me how many accomplished producers of those goods whose future production is in doubt are still at the stage of asking other people, “How are we going to pay our reporters if you guys don’t want to pay for our news?”
Read "Where's the Business Model for News, People?" (Links)
In between there is uncharted territory. Mayhill Fowler's report quoting Barack Obama at a fundraiser ("It's not surprising then they get bitter") was posted at OffTheBus Friday afternoon. By Sunday morning Tim Russert had it top of show. How it happened. Why we did it.
Read From Off The Bus to Meet the Press (Links)
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