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Short Takes
06:00 AM - December 14, 2011
The Future of Magic Bullets
Cartoonist Ted Rall shows us how to save the news business
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
Two things.
1) It's sad that CJR is now doing using ridiculous click-click-click slideshows to generate page views.
2) To make #1 even worse - you require yet another click to even get to the click-click-click page.
This is a sad development. Sheesh.
If you're doing to have pointless click-click-click pages - merge step #1 and #2 and put something like "[slideshow]" in the title so those of us in the know won't waste our time.
Yes, I didn't say "please".
#1 Posted by F. Murray Rumpelstiltskin, CJR on Wed 14 Dec 2011 at 12:16 PM
Believe it or not, the slideshow thing isn't a naked page-view grab... it really did seem like the most elegant and efficient way to present Ted's cartoons. They were scattered throughout the print edition, and we wanted to mimic that page-turning experience, rather than just dumping them all on one page. Your point about putting "slideshow" in the title is a good one, and we'll do that in the future -- though, to be sure, I don't expect us to do very many slideshows in the future.
FYI, "The Moments," which went up on Tuesday, is also a slideshow, just in case you want to stay away from it.
#2 Posted by Justin Peters, CJR on Wed 14 Dec 2011 at 02:36 PM
@ Justin Peters
Oh, good - happy news! And thanks for the FYI heads up.
#3 Posted by F. Murray Rumpelstiltskin, CJR on Wed 14 Dec 2011 at 05:11 PM
I think the Ted Rall suggestion of settling another planet - but not giving them internet - has real potential for the future of newspapers.
Maybe they could do a special edition, without cartoons, for people without a sense of humour, or with nothing better to do than get twitchy about how many pages they turn. Twitch, twitch. In space, no one can hear you twitch. And other assorted space memes. Twitchelstiltskin?
Wonder what the F stands for.
#4 Posted by Jason Brown, CJR on Thu 15 Dec 2011 at 04:50 PM
You might want to put an upper bound in your slide show, I could keep clicking on inexistent panels until id=50 and beyond. And yeah, you don't need a slide show to do a multi-panel comic, eg..
http://www.leftycartoons.com/its-a-tidy-system/
http://www.leftycartoons.com/who-to-blame/
#5 Posted by Thimbles, CJR on Thu 15 Dec 2011 at 08:18 PM