Posted in Journalism, News, Social media, tagged citizen_journalism media news_media journalism on October 8, 2007 | No Comments »
A lot of the criticism of the traditional (or mainstream) media in the last few years was one of unacknowledged bias and fear of dialogue. Social media, such as blogging and media sharing sites, were said to be the corrective for the MSM, as well as “citizen journalism.” But what happens when these giants of [...]
Posted in Journalism, Latin America, News, Social media, tagged citizen_journalism journalism news on September 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Sheer “citizen journalism,” though it has its place, is insufficient to the demands of a new way of doing journalism. It has also so far proven to be largely untenable economically. Corporate journalism is too consolidated and shareholder concerns have robbed it of its mission. At this point ad-driven lust for the “local” is a [...]
Posted in Journalism, News, Social media, Twitter on September 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Both Jonathan at Cyberjournalist and Jemima at the Guardian have posted on the survey of Twitter use by the news media.
Posted in Imwiththepress, Journalism, Social media, Twitter, tagged Twitter news media journalism news_media social_media i on September 24, 2007 | No Comments »
If you are a decision-maker at a news organization that uses the microblogging service Twitter, please take this survey I created for I’m With The Press.
Click Here to take News Media Use of Twitter survey
Please note this is a survey only for representatives of general news organizations. If you run an online-only news site, are [...]
Posted in Journalism, News, Social media, Twitter on September 17, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The established media, and by this I mean daily newspapers and non-specialty broadcast news organizations, are starting to pick up on Twitter. But most of the big ones-New York Times, NPR, CNN, BBC-are clearly using it solely as a promotional tool. The way you can tell that is by the fact that they do not [...]
Posted in Journalism, Superintelligent sea cucumbers on September 8, 2007 | No Comments »
By Curt Hopkins
WC: 1,316 (not counting sideways)
Originally published in Jane’s International Defence Review
Quarters the size of snowflakes filed the hair of breasts and bears feted the assy hills with sizzling white beans. Nudity, Shakespeare said, mirrors the ass-end of a man and this bacon was no exception. For a mole, the hole of the town [...]
Posted in Iraq, Journalism on May 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In the last several years, whenever a group or person in Iraq has issued a statement, there is often a phrase I’ve heard on TV and radio, and read in newspaper articles, in magazines and online news sites that accompanies it. Sometimes it comes from reporters and other times from officials.
This claim has yet to [...]
Posted in China, Committee to Protect Bloggers, Egypt, Free speech, Human rights, Jailed bloggers, Journalism, Threatened bloggers, Yahoo on March 8, 2007 | No Comments »
Two awful stories prove that things are still bad for bloggers in oppressive countries. First, Yahoo. (And really, how could it not start with Yahoo?)
Speaking with VOA’s Mandarin Service Wednesday after arriving in Washington, Yu Ling said Chinese police arrested her husband, Wang Xiaoning, partly because Yahoo’s Hong Kong office gave Chinese authorities information about [...]
Posted in Journalism on November 30, 2006 | No Comments »
Nick Douglas (the guy who made Valleywag worth reading) has landed at the Huffington Post. He’ll be writing for the media blog Eat the Press. I subscribed to it.
NickDouglas, eatthepress, huffingtonpost, valleywag
Curt Hopkins
Posted in Journalism on July 11, 2006 | No Comments »
I’m a big fan of comedian Kathy Griffin and her show. Probably the only non-gay male fan. So when I discovered that her husband allegedly stole $72,000 from her, an alleged event that allegedly caused their now-official divorce, I was interested and mortified. But this was an event that pointed out, again, the real problem [...]
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